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== Destiny Kinal ==

Destiny Kinal has been a political creature since being radicalized by her marriage at 19 into the Handelman family. She attended the march for peace and civil rights in Washington DC with the Handelmans in August of 1963, hearing Martin Luther King Jr's I Have a Dream speech as well as a fiery oration by Malcolm X in a Baptist church that night.

 

Destiny Kinal has been a political creature since being radicalized by her[[File:Example.jpg]] marriage at 19 into the Handelman family. She attended the march for peace and civil rights in Washington DC with the Handelmans in August of 1963, hearing Martin Luther King Jr's I Have a Dream speech as well as a fiery oration by Malcolm X in a Baptist church that night.

   

   

There followed leadership in graduate school at Indiana University in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty as an organizer, and in SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in programs to educate the population on the War in VietNam.

There followed leadership in graduate school at Indiana University in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty as an organizer, and in SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in programs to educate the population on the War in VietNam.

Kinal, who received her MFA from Bennington in 1998, completed the first book in the Textile Trilogy, Burning Silk, a literary novel of the new historical fiction persuasion, which was released in the summer of 2010 by sitio tiempo press.  Kinal is at work on the second novel in the trilogy, Linen Shroud, expected to be released in 2013-14.

Kinal, who received her MFA from Bennington in 1998, completed the first book in the Textile Trilogy, Burning Silk, a literary novel of the new historical fiction persuasion, which was released in the summer of 2010 by sitio tiempo press.  Kinal is at work on the second novel in the trilogy, Linen Shroud, expected to be released in 2013-14.

Kinal has two daughter, Gilian and Solange, each of whom have two children.  She lives in two homes, one in Berkeley CA and the other in central NY south of Ithaca.  Three of her four younger siblings are alive and well: Lance, Sean and Candace.  Brian Kinal died in 2008 of cancer.

Kinal has two daughter, Gilian and Solange, each of whom have two children.  She lives in two homes, one in Berkeley CA and the other in central NY south of Ithaca.  Three of her four younger siblings are alive and well: Lance, Sean and Candace.  Brian Kinal died in 2008 of cancer.