China Conundrum

Virginia Fortner is the author of At the Edge (2012) and, with Mike Eaten, A Design of His Own (2018). Her poems and short stories have been published in writers' journals like Latitudes, magazines, newspapers like the Kohala Mountain News, and several book collections. A lifetime educator and traveler who has spent time on every continent, Virgina taught ESL in China for four years. She is a reader and book club enthusiast, a musician, an outrigger paddler, a plein air painter, a gardener, and a lover of people, with a PhD for which she studied creative thinking. Virgina lives at the northern tip of Hawaii's Big Island.