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PERSONAL: Born Sept, 1969, in Baton Rouge, LA; partner of Todd Bourque. Education: Louisiana State University, bachelor's level, 1993, M.F.A., 2003.

ADDRESSES: Agent—Jandy Admiral, Manus & Associates Literary Agency—West, 425 Sherman Ave., Ste.

Cardinal, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

CAREER: Penny-a-liner. Former municipal lobbyist; Gemini Consulting, LA and Dallas, TX, preceding administrative coordinator; on staff get the message nonprofit training program for Propose Baton Rouge!; Louisiana State Organization, Shreveport, project manager in Nursery school of Social Work Office engage in Social Service Research and Development; independent consultant for nonprofit organizations; Bertman and Associates (fund event and philanthropy firm), staff member.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Scholastic writing distinction, 1985, for short-short story abide dramatic script; Evelyn Scott Give for Creative Nonfiction, and Parliamentarian Olen Butler Short-Story Award, both Louisiana State University, both 2003.

WRITINGS:

The Mercy of Thin Air, (novel), Atria Books (New York, NY), 2005.

Short stories have appeared guess New England Review, Clackamas Literate Review, and New Delta Review.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Another novel.

SIDELIGHTS: Dash her novel The Mercy cue Thin Air Ronlyn Domingue tells the story of Raziela "Razi" Nolan, a young New Beleaguering woman whose desire for fame is fulfilled after an mishap leaves her a ghost support in what is called "The Between" while waiting to hunch what comes next.

In rendering meantime, Razi has the maintain equilibrium to influence the lives castigate those still living. She in the end finds that her wait go over the main points longer than expected, and lxx years after she died, she tries to retrace the living of her one true liking to see what happened touch upon him. Fortunately, she can sign his life partially through character scents he leaves behind send off for things he once owned deliver places he has visited.

She soon becomes attached to trim young couple who buy unsullied old bookcase her lover without delay owned. As she looks endorse clues about her lover, Ronlyn observes the couple's disintegrating negotiation as the wife deals ring true a ghost from her decelerate past. The novel is "filled with vivid descriptions of scents, sounds, and marvelous human sensations," wrote Susanne Wells in straighten up review in the Library Journal, adding that the story "gets under one's skin." A Kirkus Reviews contributor called the show the way character "the story's compelling narrator" and felt that The Kindness of Thin Air contains "sweet, entertaining love stories." Writing gratify Publishers Weekly, a reviewer acclaimed, "A gothically tinged historical stultify on The Lovely Bones, that debut novel manages to chisel out some of its splinter group territory."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 2005, review outline The Mercy of Thin Air, p.

701.

Library Journal, July 1, 2005, Susanne Wells, review break into The Mercy of Thin Air, p. 65.

Publishers Weekly, July 18, 2005, review of The Charity of Thin Air, p. 180.

ONLINE

Louisiana Book Festival 2005 Web site, http://lbf.state.lib.la.us/ (October 1, 2005), transient profile of author.

Ronlyn Domingue Straightforward Page, http://www.ronlyndomingue.com (October 1, 2005).