{"id":18,"date":"2012-07-13T15:55:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2023-03-18T02:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T07:15:35","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/40-yr-oldme.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/40-yr-oldme.jpg\" alt=\"author photo\" class=\"wp-image-245\" width=\"-14\" height=\"-17\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>RUFEL F. RAMOS<\/strong> is an English professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcccd.edu\/pages\/default.aspx\">Dallas College<\/a> (a multi-campus community college in Dallas County, Texas) and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rufel-F-Ramos\/e\/B008L96GR8\">published author<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is also a survivor of <a href=\"http:\/\/udallas.edu\/\">a rigorous liberal arts education<\/a>, a single mother, an aunt, a big sister, the oldest child, an adopted kid, an Asian-American, a US Navy brat, a bemused Catholic, a sci-fi\/fantasy geek, a mediocre Maker of stuff, and a once-and-future globe trotter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She often writes on any and all of those roles online here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>her personal blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/thelizardqueen.wordpress.com\"><em>I Am The Lizardqueen!<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>her author website, <a href=\"http:\/\/rowenasworld.org\"><em>Rowena&#8217;s World<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Occasionally, she talks about those roles on her oft-neglected social media:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwMyWH2Uhwv2Wg1AScvkjcA\"><em>YouTube<\/em> channel: @rufelframos1703<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RufelFRamos\">Twitter: @RufelFRamos<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rufelframos\/\">Instagram: rufelframos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUFEL F. RAMOS is an English professor at Dallas College (a multi-campus community college in Dallas County, Texas) and a published author. She is also a survivor of a rigorous liberal arts education, a single mother, an aunt, a big sister, the oldest child, an adopted kid, an Asian-American, a US Navy brat, a bemused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rowenasworld.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}