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LiteraryReveler.com founder Sarah Atkinson Linville, MA, is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she also received her undergraduate degree in English literature. It was here where she discovered the beauty of language and literature as an undergraduate student.

After reluctantly enrolling in a required English literature survey class, she was presented with the opportunity to write her own Canterbury Tale in place of writing a critical essay. She jumped at the chance and her tale came back with an A and note from the professor that said, "Have you considered taking a creative writing course?" She hadn't, but was considering it now.

Next semester she enrolled in a Creative Writing course and says, "I didn't really know how to read critically, or compassion for the characters you might say, until I took creative writing; I never believed that Freshman seminar instructor who said this writer purposely used a sentence fragment here, or they chose a certain word over another, but as I began to construct my own stories I believed. I also became a much better reader along the way."

Sarah also studied Spanish language and literature while at UNCG and developed a fondness for magical realism through study of authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Borges, and others. She continued to pursue her interest in Spanish/Latin culture post-graduation and is now the editor of Batanga.com and Batanga Latin music magazine.

While enrolled in UNCG's award-winning Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program, an interdisciplinary program, she studied American literature, Jewish-American literature, American and foreign film, and studied creative writing abroad at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She did her final project on discovering a solid American identity in this time of multi-culturalism. She used her own Polish- German-Irish-English ancestry as the framework for exploration. Courses such as Emerson, Whitman and Thoreau, American Cinema, and American Jazz: Louis Armstrong where critical.