Inta Halvorsen is a Gen X writer, a lover of water, whether swimming, canoeing, or simply drinking it, and an absolute beginner, always willing to start fresh.
Born in Riga, Latvia, in 1969, she relocated to the United States in 2015. Today, she is pursuing her lifelong dreams of writing stories and establishing a home in the Southwest.
Halvorsen's fiction draws heavily from true events, raw emotions, and the unpredictable paths of life. While traditional cultural scripts promise that getting educated, leaving home, or talking to someone will save women, her work actively challenges those narratives. She explores the unconventional ways women survive, acknowledging that fantasy, resilience, and personal longing can serve as powerful tools for survival.
Her two companion stories, A Day in the Life of a Soviet Schoolgirl and The 90s Leftovers, explore the emotional archaeology of one woman's life at ages fifteen and fifty. Readers can meet the protagonist later in life first and then uncover the experiences that shaped her, raising a poignant question: How does our understanding of a person change once we see the full trajectory of their life?
