Women Who Serve: Yulia Putintseva

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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Gavrilova wins U.S. Open junior girls championship

Daria Gavrilova, the top seed, won the U.S. Open junior girls' title today, defeating the unseeded Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 6-2. Both Gavrilova and Putintseva are from Russia.

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Diane Elayne Dees is a writer, a retired psychotherapist, a former speech communication instructor, and a former public relations specialist. She is also a life-long fan of women's professional tennis.

For several years, Diane published the progressive blog, The Dees Diversion, and she also contributed regularly to the Mother Jones MoJo Blog. Diane has published political essays, short fiction and creative nonfiction. For the past several years, she has concentrated on writing poetry.

An eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Diane has published four poetry chapbooks, Coronary Truth (Kelsay Books), The Last Time I Saw You, (Finishing Line Press), The Wild Parrots of Marigny (Querencia Press), and I Can't Recall Exactly When I Died (Kelsay Books). (See ordering information at the top of the page.)

Diane's nature poetry was read on Martha Stewart Living Radio's "The Naturalist's Datebook." She has also published four microchaps with the Origami Poems Project: Beach Days, Pandemic Times, Missing Amy, and Yogic Truth.