Mena is the author of the website www.upsidedownwritesideup.com. She has been an English and Literature teacher for seven years in the Deep South. Mena grew up a middle child of parents in love with the written word, and she likes to take care of people and animals. When she's not teaching and grading papers, she's writing essays and books and playing with her little foundling dog, Hobbes, who was a bait dog in a fighting ring.
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