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Joyce Burns Zeiss has always wanted to be a writer. After retiring from teaching junior high school, she became a member of Off Campus Writers Workshop in Winnetka, IL. Her experiences with resettling a Chinese Cambodian refugee family in 1979 and her subsequent trips to work in refugee camps in Africa have fueled her interest in the plight of the refugee.

Zeiss' first novel, OUT OF THE DRAGON'S MOUTH, is based on the true-life experiences of a fellow teacher who fled Viet Nam as an adolescent to cross the South China Sea in the hold of a fishing boat. It is forthcoming in 2015 from FLUX publisher.

A graduate of Northwestern University, Joyce also holds an M. A. from DePaul University in English, and a reading specialist degree from Nation ...more

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Vietnamese Refugees Helping Syrians

Vietnamese- Americans have opened their hearts to Syrian refugees as they witness history repeating itself. Haunting stories of boats capsizing and families drowning as they try to get to Greece has galvanized former Vietnamese boat people in Fountain Valley, California, to organize a walkathon to send medical aid to Syrians fleeing the war in their country. They have also started a Twitter campai Read more of this blog post »

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