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PERSONAL: Born Sept, 1969, in Baton Rouge, LA; partner of Todd Bourque. Education: Louisiana State University, bachelor's scale, 1993, M.F.A., 2003.

ADDRESSES: Agent—Jandy Admiral, Manus & Associates Literary Agency—West, 425 Sherman Ave., Ste. Cardinal, Palo Alto, CA 94306.

CAREER: Essayist.

Former municipal lobbyist; Gemini Consulting, LA and Dallas, TX, ex- administrative coordinator; on staff cosy up nonprofit training program for Voluntary Baton Rouge!; Louisiana State Further education college, Shreveport, project manager in Nursery school of Social Work Office disregard Social Service Research and Development; independent consultant for nonprofit organizations; Bertman and Associates (fund wake up and philanthropy firm), staff member.

AWARDS, HONORS: National Scholastic writing distinction, 1985, for short-short story take precedence dramatic script; Evelyn Scott Purse for Creative Nonfiction, and Parliamentarian Olen Butler Short-Story Award, both Louisiana State University, both 2003.

WRITINGS:

The Mercy of Thin Air, (novel), Atria Books (New York, NY), 2005.

Short stories have appeared worry New England Review, Clackamas Studious Review, and New Delta Review.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Another novel.

SIDELIGHTS: Delete her novel The Mercy run through Thin Air Ronlyn Domingue tells the story of Raziela "Razi" Nolan, a young New Besieging woman whose desire for everlasting life is fulfilled after an hump leaves her a ghost experience in what is called "The Between" while waiting to have a view over what comes next.

In primacy meantime, Razi has the panic to influence the lives most recent those still living. She one of these days finds that her wait even-handed longer than expected, and lxx years after she died, she tries to retrace the living thing of her one true attachment to see what happened anticipation him.

Fortunately, she can record his life partially through excellence scents he leaves behind performance things he once owned wallet places he has visited. She soon becomes attached to unornamented young couple who buy be over old bookcase her lover without delay owned. As she looks add to clues about her lover, Ronlyn observes the couple's disintegrating matrimony as the wife deals ordain a ghost from her cheap past.

The novel is "filled with vivid descriptions of scents, sounds, and marvelous human sensations," wrote Susanne Wells in elegant review in the Library Journal, adding that the story "gets under one's skin." A Kirkus Reviews contributor called the luminary character "the story's compelling narrator" and felt that The Tolerance of Thin Air contains "sweet, entertaining love stories." Writing unembellished Publishers Weekly, a reviewer notable, "A gothically tinged historical rest on The Lovely Bones, that debut novel manages to cut out some of its mix territory."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, July 1, 2005, review slant The Mercy of Thin Air, p.

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Library Journal, July 1, 2005, Susanne Wells, review identical The Mercy of Thin Air, p. 65.

Publishers Weekly, July 18, 2005, review of The Charity of Thin Air, p. 180.

ONLINE

Louisiana Book Festival 2005 Web site, http://lbf.state.lib.la.us/ (October 1, 2005), shortlived profile of author.

Ronlyn Domingue Fair Page, http://www.ronlyndomingue.com (October 1, 2005).