Lara Minardi is a native New Yorker finishing off her high school education in Sydney, Australia. Previously published in the inaugural issue of ‘Persephone’s Daughters,’ she was one of the twenty out-of-state students selected to attend the California State Summer School for the Arts, and she hopes to one day pursue her dreams of becoming a stereotypical writer and returning to New York, drinking black coffee at 2AM, using a typewriter and growing a beard.