Zinta Aistars is the published author of three books and has recently completed a second collection of poetry, Tumbleweed Waltz. She is an editor for LuxEsto, the Kalamazoo College alumni magazine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, and has published poetry, travel essays, stories, and articles in the United States, Latvia, England, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. Her work also appears on many e-zines - including Ascent Aspirations Magazine, Fiction Attic, Saucy Vox, Ghoti Fish, Ash Canyon Review, Spoiled Ink, HerCircleEzine, Flashquake, 63Channels, The Redbridge Review, milk magazine, Word Riot, The Surface, Serene Light, River Walk Journal, Bobbing Around, The Moon, Burning Word, insolent rudder, coilMagazine, Poems Neiderngasse, QuietPoly Writers Magazine, The Paper, Poetry Life & Times, Midwest Book Review, and others. She publishes a monthly newsletter of marketing tips and inspiration for writers called Zeenythe Communications and is an editor for the literary e-zine, insolent rudder.