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Anita Smith

Anitra (AKA Anita Carol Smith) – an escaped English teacher, Anitra slid into the local writing community via Judy Reeves’s Brownbaggers, where she got “Anitra” as her nom de group. A noticeably-amateur jazz flutist, Anitra nevertheless got work reviewing jazz concerts and interviewing players for Jazz News and La Jolla Village News. Her feature articles and photos have also appeared in the UT, The Reader, the Flutist Quarterly, the Quarterly of the Museum of Photographic Arts, and North Park News. But the high point of her journalism career was scaling 500-ft. construction cranes to interview and photograph the operators up in the cab for Metropolitan magazine. In the past few years, she has written two commissioned biographies and is currently hoping to find a home (agent/publisher) for the second one, Born White. However, some First Fridayers remember Anitra, if they remember her at all, as the infamous author of “Thirteen Ways to Lick an Ice Cream Cone.”

Most concise motto for the marathon: “Write on.”