California Writer

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About me

Gender Female
Occupation Writer
Location Los Angeles, California, United States
Introduction I've just wrote a three-generation memoir about my grandmother's life, my mother's, and my life until I am a young writer publishing prose and poetry titled titled 'I Can Hear Them Singing." I was co-author of the book "Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World" as well as published numerous essays of literary criticism. I've published five books of poetry: "Under the Ladder to Heaven," "Desert Soldiers," "Shulamith," "Walker Woman,"and "What Were They Like?" I've also edited "Walking through a River of Fire: 100 Years of Triangle Factory Fire Poetry" and along with David Joseph edited "Every Day is an Act of Resistance: Selected Poems of Carol Tarlen." I've been an oral historian of early 20th century Los Angeles, a grunt at a publishing house, a TV producer, a radio producer, a free-lance writer, a college professor in both psychology and English, and a waitress and secretary.
Interests Literature, photography, painting, film, architecture, dance, politics, walking, hiking mountains.
Favorite Movies American Splendour, Seabiscuit, Seven Samurai
Favorite Music Bob Dylan, Youssou 'n dour, Aaron Copland, John Renbourn, Gordon Lightfoot, Adrienne Cooper
Favorite Books Leaves of Grass, The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Moby Dick, God of Small Things, Bleak House.

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