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=Mickie Turk= Mickie Turk has worked independently and commercially in film, photography and journalism, for the past 15 years. She wrote, directed and produced several films, both short and feature-length narratives and documentaries.She is also a creative writer producing two suspense thrillers. Turk was born, raised and resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mickie Turk is also known by the name Miroslava Turk.

=Writing=

The Delilah Case
The Delilah Case is a suspense thriller that was a quarterfinalist for the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The story centers on renowned psychiatrist Dr. Dominique Doucet. Dominique grew up as a child prodigy in New Orleans surrounded by voodoo, gangsters, and backstabbing relatives. After thirty years away Dominique returns to New Orleans to open a controversial treatment facility for violent male offenders. Following her return Dominique faces protesters, attacks, a reappearance of a hidden secret, and the hunt for a killer.

Journals and Travel Stories
Mickie Turk has written for several Minnesota journals including Women’s Press and Edible Minnesota. Her travel writing about Cuba can be found at MM Arts and Tours. Turk’s travel memoir piece, She loved to Rumba (le) won a 2008 Bronze Solas Award.

=Films=

Wayward Girls:A Story of Survival
Mickie Turk directed and co-produced Wayward Girls: A Story of Survival with script writer and producer Rosalie G Sundin. Turk and Sundin met in a northern Minnesota runaway shelter in 1968. In the 2003 feature-length documentary Wayward Girls they recall their time spent at Duluth's Carmel Heights Home for Girls. Troubled teenage girls are also interviewed in the documentary allowing for a comparison of experience. The film examines how society treats teenage girls who have run away from home or committed minor criminal offenses. As teenage boys are more likely to be involved with serious crimes, rehabilitation efforts and funding for boys is greater than that received for girls.

A Separate Madness
A Separate Madness is a 2004 short film written, directed, and produced by Mickie Turk. This film is set in a New Orleans’s cemetery where just released convict Victor Landry tells the tale of a strange murder.

Santeria: Between Two Blues
In 1999, Mickie Turk and Margaret Ford Rogers produced a short documentary, Santeria: Between Two Blues, filmed on location in Cuba.

=Photography=

Mickie Turk and Margret Ford Rogers have 83 licensed images from their Cuban Film, Santeria ~ Between Two Blues with Getty Images. Additional images of Cuba by Turk and Ford Rogers can be found at MM Arts and Tours. Additional photography by Turk can be found at Mickie Turk’s author blog

=External Links=
 * Mickie Turk Author http://www.mickieturkauthor.blogspot.com/
 * Delilah Case Book Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2N2bv-8Gs
 * Excerpt from The Delilah Casehttp://www.mickieturkauthor.blogspot.com/p/excerpt-from-delilah-case.html
 * A Separate Madness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4A-8h9BPBc
 * MM Arts and Tours http://www.mmartsandtours.com/
 * Margret Ford Rogers http://www.margaretfordrogersphotography.com/index2.php#/home/
 * Santeria: Between Two Blues http://vimeo.com/5541721
 * Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?contractUrl=2&language=en-US&p=Miroslava+Turk&assetType=film

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