Zinta Aistars is a bilingual author in English and Latvian. She has three books published in the Latvian language – Mala Kausa (In An Earthen Mug), a poetry collection; Olina (Little Egg), a children’s book; Ievainots Zelts (Wounded Gold), a novella and short story collection. Zinta is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online literary magazine, The Smoking Poet.
Zinta is publications editor and writer for a health care organization in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was writer and editor for the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA prior to that; has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Zinta is a regularly contributing writer to Southwest Michigan’s Second Wave Media. Her work also appears in many magazines and ezines – including Xelas Magazine, Lagos Literary Journal, Greater Guide Magazine, Cezanne’s Carrot, Scriptum, Outsider Ink, Boston Literary Magazine, Insolent Rudder, Menda City Review, Megaera Magazine, Fiction Attic, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Saucy Vox, Ghoti Fish, Ash Canyon Review, Her Circle Ezine, Flashquake, 63 Channels, milk magazine, Serene Light, River Walk Journal, Poetry Life & Times, Bobbing Around, Flash Me magazine, Burning Word, Poems Neiderngasse, Word Riot, Midwest Book Review, and many others.
Visit Zinta on her sites at MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn – or visit Zinta at her official Web site.
See also Zinta Aistars – On a Writer’s Journey and Zinta Reviews.
