Express Yourself 101 Dancing With Words

An anthology featuring 101 writers from the past, present and future. PAST 1 Mark Akenside 2 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 3 William Blake 4 Robert Browning 5 William Cullen Bryant 6 Charles Dickens 7 Eugene Field 8 Samuel Johnson 9 John Keats 10 Amy Lowell 11 Edgar Allan Poe 12 Christina Rossetti 13 William Shakespeare 14 Phillis Wheatley 15 Walt Whitman PRESENT 16 W. Jude Aher 17 Christopher Aiden 18 Kevin Paul Alawine 19 Elein Arencibia 20 Marcy Axness, Ph.D. 21 Nathaniel Booker 22 Janelle-Diane Bravo 23 Isabel Cabán 24 Didier Camacho 25 Richard Caruso 26 Todd Cheney 27 Tahlia Dago 28 Adriana Gale 29 Stacy Goll 30 Milena Gomez 31 Stephanie Harmon 32 Beverly Houck 33 Michael Levy 34 Ralph Lichtenberger 35 Adrienne Lin 36 Miriam Lorenzo 37 Sandra R. Mainer 38 Ana Monnar 39 Melissa Oharriz 40 A. Owens 41 Charles P. Ries 42 Jason Schramm 43 Miryam Shields 44 Adrian Spendlow 45 Linda Stypulkowski 46 Idania Temiño 47 Linda Turner-Zwetkov 48 Kathleen Vasilas 49 Sand-dee Rose Waybill 50 Melissa-Marie Zirini FUTURE 51 Andrei Alessandri 52 Kristin Aughenbaugh 53 Shreya Baid 54 Rachel Bernhardt-Licea 55 Michael Cano 56 Mario Caraballo 57 Jacquelyn Conde 58 Valerie Corella 59 Katryna Cruz 60 Mila Dago 61 Rene Dago III 62 Andrew Davis 63 Annette Elguezabal 64 Christina Fernandez 65 Eli Fernandez 66 Juan Figueroa 67 Brittany Fowler 68 Paul George 69 Acelia Gonzalez 70 Brian Gonzalez 71 Elisa Gonzalez 72 Roxana Iviricu 73 Dakota R. Lipton 74 Sasha Martinez 75 Alberto Monnar 76 Alexander Monnar 77 Anna Monnar 78 Tiffany Oharriz 79 Kahyra Paulette 80 Andres Quinta 81 Daniel Rams 82 Victoria Rams 83 Catherine Ries 84 Gema Rodriguez 85 Stephanie Rodriguez 86 Steven Rodriguez 87 Camila Romero 88 Jonathan Ruano 89 Justin Ruano 90 Megan Ruiz 91 Jorge Sanz 92 Alfredo Toll 93 Laurence Tommasi, Jr. 94 Alexandra Varona 95 Kristin Vazquez 96 Leidy Villa 97 Linda Villa 98 Chantelle Viloria 99 Denise Washington 100 Matthew Williams 101 Ibrain Zirini

Ana Monnar is married to Octavio Monnar. They were both blessed with three children, Alberto, Anna and Alexander. The family also adopted Lulu, the star Yorkshire Terrier. Sunny, a Yellow Nape parrot has been with the family for many years.

Mrs. Monnar has been teaching for 25 years. She is currently teaching fourth grade.

About the illustrator

Anna Monnar is the daughter of Ana and Octavio Monnar. Along with her brothers Alberto and Alexander, she is also blessed with an older sister, Alina, from Mr. Monnar's first marriage.

Anna took many years of dance lessons. From age 4 to age 11, she danced ballet, lyrical, tap and jazz. Anna is currently 12 years old. She reads the second reading during mass every month. She loves and participatesin track and field, cross country, basketball, softball volleyball, and enjoys being in team sports at school. Anna is very much loved by her family and friends. The teachers and administrators at the Catholic School where she attends show a lot of love and care also.