A Jill Of All Trades

The sophmore slump has met its match with author, designer, musician, tour guide and full-time ARHU student Laura Pavlo.

The sophmore slump has met its match with author, designer, musician, tour guide and full-time ARHU student Laura Pavlo.

By Mary Clare Fischer, The Diamondback
On Aug. 11, 2009, sophomore Laura Pavlo thought of a sentence that seemed, at first, to be insignificant:
 "I like writing in tight spacesbecause if I give myself too muchroom, I might say too much."

As she typically does with the words and paragraphs that pop into her mind, she wrote it down and left it there, not expecting anything to come of it.
 A year and a half later, that sentence marks the first line in Pavlo's published novella, Ellipsis, which won the Jimenez-Porter Literary Prize and is sold through Amazon distributor www.createspace.com and in Barnes & Noble bookstores.
 "Before it was published, nobody had read it," said Pavlo, an English and studio art major. "I'm really private about what I'm writing, so it was cool that it got positive responses and recognition. And inspiring, too — the day I got the proof for Ellipsis back, I thought of the first line for my next book."

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