Randi Dickson has been an English educator, writing teacher, and writer for over forty-five years. Her publications include many articles for professional journals in her field as well as pieces for the The New York Times, East Hampton Star and other national magazines. She has just completed a memoir of Maritza Farkas Shelley entitled In the Very Air We Breathed. It is a remarkable and often harrowing story of a Jewish family who survived the Nazi invasion and occupation of Hungary during WWII.