Kara B. Imle is the author of numerous works of short fiction, poetry and memoir. She was the creative power behind The Secret Universe of Names: The Dynamic Interplay of Names and Destiny (Overlook/Duckworth 2004). She's worked as a grant writer in West Africa, a construction roustabout at a petroleum plant in rural Alaska, and a food server on a train that daily chugged past the largest mountain in north America. Her manuscript, The Dragon in The Doorway: A Memoir recently won top billing at the Writers' League of Texas Agent's and Editor's Conference.