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About Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

Rebecca (La Fontaine) Larivee grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and was educated in England and California. In 1986 she gave up an archaeology career (about the time she met Richard Irwin) to go into the social work field. Rebecca lives happily with, Normand, her husband of ten years and an unlikely assortment of animals in NW New Mexico. She has previously published in Cause and Function, A-Z: the Journal of Weird Anthropology, and has read her works on the air.

Richard’s Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee

Rebecca LaFontaine-Larivee - Richard's Coat: Remembering Richard Irwin

Richard’s Coat… went into the cardboard box with all the other things for the thrift store: an orange radio with a broken antenna, a vintage purse that was only in fashion in San Francisco’s … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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