Ines Rodrigues is a journalist and fiction writer, currently doing her MFA in creative writing and translation at Columbia University, in New York. She has been living in the USA for many years. She published her first novel, Days of Bossa Nova, in 2017, and she's currently writing her second work of fiction. Ines has been an instructor at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College since 2016. She is the former editor of Scarsdale Living Magazine, and also teaches Italian and creative writing at Bronxville Adult School. She is the curator of The Scarsdale Salon, a quarterly literary event in partnership with the Salon de Belleville (Paris, France).  Read more about Ines Rodrigues and enjoy her blog at https://www.inesrodriguesauthor.com/