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Cynthia Clark’s first novel circled endlessly in her head for a couple of decades before she finally decided it was time to set it free.

“When I got the guts to sit down and write it, I discovered that I was visualizing it like a movie. While typing I could see characters blink their eyes, turn their heads or reach down,” says Clark, education program assistant in the Department of Linguistics at her alma mater, the ����������.