Anaïku (ePub)

Nyuka Anas Laurent, ne Harriette Hayes Lawrence, a born New Englander, was brought up in Massachusetts. She began writing poetry when only 10 and has continued ever since. She went to the MacDuffie School for Girls and Elmira College, where she was named to Whos Who among Students. At Elmira, where she completed her undergraduate studies, she majored in English and French and minored in Art, creating the basis for her future choices of work in diverse fields. After her Junior Year Abroad studies in Paris, France, she transferred to the University of Paris to complete 3 degrees: a D.U.E.L., Licence and a teaching Masters degree in Anglo-American studies at the Faculty of Nanterre, part of the University of Paris. She immediately began working in the Continuing Education department of the Faculty of Censier, in the heart of Paris, teaching and developing English as a Second Language (ESL) programs specifically tailored to the needs of public and private entities under the auspices of the University.

She married her handsome Parisian and bore him 3 children, a daughter and two sons, during this period. She later worked as an ESL trainer in two nuclear power plants in Normandy, preparing management and white collar employees for WANO and OSART visits, as well as cultural differences for in situ positions abroad; in China where EDF (Electricitde France) collaborated.

In Paris, her after-hour leisure time was spent in workshops with Rome Prize winner artists; the results became the foundation for her later works in paint, collage, sculpture and other materials. She also attended Art history courses at the Louvre. During her long teaching career in public and private corporate programs she never stopped writing or creating art works.

Her writing, primarily haku and some short stories, often illustrated, took place after returning to the United States in the late 70s to raise her 3 children. Ekphrasis, the combination of the two forms of art, has become her

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