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Short Bio
I have an essay/poem that will be published by The Los Angeles Press. I'm not certain of the exact publication date. It's a print journal and this is Volume 10. I'm really thrilled and honored. This piece is unusual in that I read it aloud before real people while revising it. I was super nervous each time I read but I think that was very helpful. I guess that's what stand up comedians do. I could feel the audience responding and could sense what worked. Of course, writing is different than performing but I would like to read excerpts from my novel aloud. The first time I tried to do that I stopped in the middle unable to continue but I think I am becoming less nervous.
I took an online workshop organized by Catherine Segurson of Catamaran with Dorianne Laux. I submitted the poem I wrote during the workshop to The New Verse News and it was accepted and published within days. Some kind of record for me but as Dorianne said drolly, "Who doesn't like poems about whales?" I was embarrassed because my voice broke reading it. I went online to get tips on what to do if you become emotional speaking in public and the advice was not to. Is that good advice? The article went on to say if you become emotional it makes people uncomfortable. I guess that is something you aren't supposed to do. Taking a break from teaching film and creative writing in East Los Angeles to write full time. I have a BA in theatre/film from UCSC and an MFA in film production from UCLA. Each time I get a poem published that journal becomes my new favorite journal. So now I am in love with Kelp Journal. I love that they published two of my poems but l also love this journal and all that they do to try to help the health of our oceans. I'm also super appreciative of the photos and art that are sometimes paired with my poetry. I had a poem published by Red Flag Poetry Express, which sends out postcards of poems paired with artwork, and the watercolor paired with my little poem was so perfect and beautiful. A poem was recently published in Closed Eye Open, You should check out the journal. The photography featured in this journal is really cool in addition to all the great stories and poems. Other poems exist out in the world in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Nixes Mate Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Red Flag Poetry Express, antinarrative journal, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, Ekphrastic Review, Contemporary Haibun among others. I recently finished writing the novella, People Who Love You.
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I don't update this site often. I have a few more poems published and some forthcoming. I am still writing poetry but I took time off from working on poems to finish my novella. Yay! It's finished. I am starting another called "The Lost Films." This book was inspired in part by an unexpected podcast by Caveh Zahedi and his (imperfect) but flattering memory of me in film school. You can hear it here. 365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die - The Perfectionist Could be any war... This is an erasure poem from a newspaper article in the Guardian. WAR day 1 condition of anonymity migratory birds, bats and insects a chilling warning airfields far convoys near kindergarten shoe factory forest dead and wounded kidnapped static and vulnerable physically eliminate “It’s frightening, but what can you do? |