A new generation in Romania--with a few American friends--face communism's ghosts with desperation and dreams.
Raised outside of Buffalo, New York, Lenore Myka has published fiction in such journals as the Massachusetts Review, Iowa Review, and the New England Review. She has won fiction awards from Cream City Review and Booth Journal, and her work has been listed as notable from Best American Short Stories and Best American Nonrequired Reading. A graduate of the University of Rochester, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Warren Wilson College's MFA program, she served in the Peace Corps in Romania. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. King of the Gypsies is her first book.
