Tricia Vita spent the first 17 years of her life traveling with carnivals through New England and New York, where her first job was picking up darts and replacing busted balloons in her mother's dart game. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she has worked as a writer, translator and book scout. Excerpts from her carnival memoir have been published in Boston Review, Provincetown Arts, and Yankee. As a freelance writer, she has written for Art & Antiques, Islands, New Art Examiner, Preservation, Raw Vision, Teacher, and Travel + Leisure, among others. Her translation of One Thousand and One-Second Stories (Issen ichibyo monogatari) by the Japanese Dadaist Inagaki Taruho (Sun & Moon Press, 1998) was reviewed in the NY Times, Publishers Weekly and Kirkus. She has a Certificate in Reminiscence and Life Story from the University of Wisconsin--Superior and records oral histories for the Coney Island History Project and creates and reminiscence activities for older adult centers in New York City.