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BIO

Rhea Harmsen is a scientist, novelist and author of Language of the Spirit, a volume of selected poems.

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Born

Harmsen was born in a family with a black father and a white mother at a time when interracial marriage was still illegal in some states of the U.S.

See her blogThe ultimate litmus test of our hidden racism interracial marriage

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L-R(front): Tracie, Carolyn and Baby Rhea, L-R(back) Edward J. Howard, Tina, Jane R. Howard.

FAMILY VALUES

Her parents gave her a vision of world citizenship that informs her writing and her lifestyle and has caused her to reject traditional views of race and gender.

See her blogWho are my people - the biracial child’s credo

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WRITING

Rhea Harmsen has published on issues of gender equality and race relations, with the hope of inspiring social change. See her blogTribute-to-eman-al-zobeidi-chastity-is-a-condition-of-the-soul

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EDUCATION

Harmsen holds a doctorate in Plant Breeding and Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SCIENCE

Her article “Science in the Hands of Women: Present Barriers, Future Promise” appeared in World Order in 1998 and provides the foundation for the story line for the novel The Harvest of Reason.

RESIDENCE

Rhea is married to Dr. Eric Harmsen, has a son Julian and daughter Lua. She currently resides in Puerto Rico.

Rhea has written three other novels soon to be released

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