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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi friends!

Today, I am so excited to be arts calling Samantha Terrell!

About our guest:

Samantha Terrell is an internationally published American poet and author whose work has received five-star reviews. In 2021, she received First Honorable Mention in the “Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Awards” organized by Poets Without Borders. Her most recent book, Things Worth Repeating?, features an invented form – the poetic trinitas. Terrell and her family reside in upstate New York.

Poetry Sale on Samantha’s website until 9/4!!! http://www.samanthaterrell.com/books.html

Cosmic Tragicomedy is now available for (eBook) pre-order, to be released alongside its paperback on Friday, Sept. 16th!

Simplicity, and Other Things We Overcomplicate, now available! https://books2read.com/SimplicityAndOtherThingsWeOvercomplicate

Vision, and Other Things We Hide From, now available from Potter’s Grove Press! https://pottersgrovepress.com/product/vision-and-other-things-we-hide-from

Keeping Afloat, now available from JC Studio Press! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keeping-Afloat-Samantha-Terrell/dp/1739908880

Thanks so much for this wonderful interview, Samantha!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am so excited to be arts calling Rodd Whelpley!

About our Guest: Rodd Whelpley seeks poetry in the everyday world. He manages an electric efficiency program for 32 cities across Illinois and lives near Springfield with his wife, son, and the memories of good Golden Retrievers he has known.

His poems have appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal, 2River View, Star 82 Review, Right Hand Pointing, Shot Glass Journal, Spillway, The Naugatuck River Review, Eunoia Review, Antiphon, The Chagrin River Review and other journals.

The Last Bridge is Home, now available for sale! https://kelsaybooks.com/products/the-last-bridge-is-home

Check out Rodd’s collection Whoever Said Love, now available from ELJ Editions! https://elj-editions.com/whoever-said-love/

Thanks for coming on the show, Rodd!!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Thanks for stopping by, today I am ecstatic to be arts calling Madeleine Corley!

About our guest:

Madeleine Corley has multiple interests with her main affinity simply being words. From elaborate acrostics to black-out found poems, she adores fitting concepts into tight spaces to create a puzzle.

Madeleine received her Bachelors Degree in Public Health from The Ohio State University in 2017, where she additionally acquired a minor in Leadership Studies. Her years at university brought about a love for travel through studying abroad, for literacy through a Penpal program she expanded, and for events and programming through her involvement in BuckeyeThon fundraising and morale.

After university, she spent time in Dublin, Ireland, where she expanded her poetry and literary experience through performance and small event planning. She was a regular at the New Romantics Poetry night and an organizer for a local Meetup group where she focused on prompt writing and facilitating relationships between writers.

She began her tenure as the Poetry Editor for Barren Magazine in December 2018 and has been in the role since.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/Madelinksi

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wrotemadeleine

Thanks so much for this amazing conversation, Maddie!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Welcome to the show! Today I am arts calling Dr. Sarah Etlinger!

Sarah A. Etlinger holds a BA in English from Skidmore College, an MA in English from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition (English) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Scholarly interests include new media studies, first-year composition, feminist literature,  the Beatles, and popular culture. Currently, she is Associate professor of Composition and Literature at Rock Valley College where she teaches courses in composition, film, and literature.

A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she is the author of two books: Never One for Promises (Kelsay Books, 2018) and Little Human Things (Clare Songbirds, 2020). Other poems can be found in a variety of literary magazines, including The Amethyst Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, Mookychick,  The Penwood Review, The Magnolia Review, Brine (where she was September 2018’s featured Poet of the Month) and many others. 

Interests include cooking, baking, traveling, spending time with her family, and music.

Her latest poetry collection, Little Human Things is now available!

‘Never One for Promises,’ a poetry collection, now available!

Dr. Sarah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drsaephd

Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Dr. Sarah!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

What a great episode we have for you: Today I am arts calling Allison Adair!

About our Guest: Allison Adair’s first collection, The Clearing, was selected by Henri Cole as winner of Milkweed’s Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, and ZYZZYVA; and her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant, and first place in the Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review. Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.

Allison on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fascicles

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Stop by Allison’s website for recent publications! https://www.allisonadair.com/publications

Thanks for coming on the show, Allison!!

*Note: Some edits have been made to the episode due to connection issues.

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am overjoyed to be arts calling Estela González!

About our guest:

Estela González holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in Latin American literature. As a binational and bilingual writer, she tells stories in English and Spanish about race, class, gender, and environmental justice. Growing up in Mexico, Estela regularly visited her family in Mazatlán, where decades-long intensive development has led to the demise of beaches and sea turtle colonies. Her research and support of fishermen protecting sea turtles in the Sea of Cortés deepen her reflections on environmental justice, race relations, and sexuality. Her work is featured in the Barcelona Review, the Cobalt Review, Connotation Press, Cronopio, Flash Frontier, Flyway Magazine, Kudzu House, Label Me Latina, La Colmena, Luvina, the Fem, and the Revista Mexicana de Literatura Contemporánea, as well as in outstanding collections such as Best of Solstice Literary Magazine, Feminine Rising (Cynren Press, 2019), and Under the Volcano. Arribada was a 2019 finalist for Feminist Press’s Louise Meriwether Award.

Arribada, now on sale here: https://bookshop.org/a/84546/9781947976313

Estela on Twitter: https://twitter.com/5estelagonzalez

Thank you so much for this inspiring conversation, Estela!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hello!

Here we go, today I am so excited to be arts calling Thomas Bazar!

About:

Thomas Bazar (pronounced Bay-zar), is a novelist and playwright. Two of his plays were staged with the performance collective, A Band of Actors. He longs to reconnect with his Persian roots and loves Persian food and its great history. Besides that, he loves the wonderful cities of Lisbon and Paris, his dogs, and anything to do with the natural world.

His novel, An Expectation of Plenty, now available on Amazon!

https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781648261084

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/an-expectation-of-plenty-thomas-bazar/1136832279?ean=9781648261084

Thanks for this amazing conversation, Thomas!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Welcome to CRUZFEST: Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Denise Cruz-Castino!

About our guest:

Denise Cruz-Castino graduated from UCLA, had a successful advertising writing career, and has turned that into a screenwriting career. Her first feature produced 5 Weddings premiered at Cannes in 2018, opened in 52 countries worldwide, co-stars Bo Derek and Candy Clark and was produced by Uniglobe Entertainment. She’s currently working on a feature comedy with Josephson Entertainment and has Miranda Bailey attached as director. She recently had several children’s horror animation shorts produced by DreamworksTV Youtube channel for their Spine Chilling Stories. She has sold a live-action short to Disney, had a horror short produced by Raving Eejit Entertainment, and her short, Things Look Grim, was produced by Sasha Golberg. She and her writing partner Johnny Harrington have several other projects they’re pitching like their WW2 drama and several sitcoms. Her blog that helps newbie screenwriters, screenwriterwriting.blogspot, was named Website of the Week by Script Magazine. Her scripts have placed in Final Draft Big Break, Fade-In Screenwriting and Nicholl Fellowship contests.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cruzwriter

For more information, please visit: denisecruzcastino.com

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Hi there,

Today I am so honored to be arts calling Daniel A. Olivas!

About: Daniel A. Olivas is the author of ten books and editor of two anthologies. His latest books are How to Date a Flying Mexican: New and Collected Stories (University of Nevada Press, 2022), The King of Lighting Fixtures: Stories (University of Arizona Press, 2017), and Crossing the Border: Collected Poems (Pact Press, 2017).

Widely anthologized, Daniel has also written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, La Bloga, BOMB, High Country News, Huffington Post, Alta Journal, Los Angeles Times, El Paso Times, The Rumpus, and the Jewish Journal.

Daniel is also a playwright. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild, and his plays may be read at New Play Exchange. Daniel’s first full-length play, Waiting for Godínez, was selected for the Playwrights’ Arena Summer Reading Series (2020), and The Road Theatre’s 12th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival (2021), and was a Semi-Finalist for the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award (American Blues Theater). Daniel was selected for Circle X Theatre’s inaugural Evolving Playwrights Group where he adapted his novel, The Book of Want, for the stage, culminating in a streamed reading (2021). Daniel’s play, Waiting, had its world premiere with Playwrights’ Arena on July 24, 2021.

Daniel, the grandson of Mexican immigrants, grew up near downtown Los Angeles. He now makes his home in Southern California with his wife, and they have an adult son. Daniel received his degree in English literature from Stanford University and law degree from UCLA. By day, he is an attorney.

His latest collection, How to Date a Flying Mexican, is now available here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781647790363

Visit https://www.danielolivas.com/ for more information.

Or stop by to say hi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/olivasdan

Read Daniel’s plays at the New Play Exchange! https://newplayexchange.org/users/35649/daniel-olivas

Thanks for this incredible conversation, Daniel!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am so excited to be arts calling Abby Tozer!

Abby Tozer is an actor, screenwriter, and producer. She and her creative team are currently embarking on the post-production of the short film, Positive. Coming soon!

Stop by a virtual Q&A for the film on July 12th 4pm PST via Google Meets! LINK HERE

Visit https://www.positiveshortfilm.com for more information.

Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Abby!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Gauri Awasthi!

About: Gauri Awasthi is an Indian poet and an MFA graduate from McNeese State University. She has won awards and scholarships from the Sundress Academy For The Arts, Louisiana Office of Cultural Development, Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her writing has been published in  The Rumpus, Quarterly West, Buzzfeed, Notre Dame Review, and others.

Gauri’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/awasthi_gauri

Gauri’s latest course is now available here: 4-Week Online Poetry Workshop: Decolonizing Poetry

Thank you so much for your time, Gauri!

*Note: This episode was recorded the week of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Some of our conversation centers around this topic.

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am so happy to be arts calling Kátia Bandeira de Mello-Gerlach!

About: Kátia Bandeira de Mello-Gerlach is a Brazilian fiction writer residing in New York City. Her first two books of short stories were published by Projeto Dulcinéia Catadora, an art collective, part of the Latin American cartonera movement. Disquiet International participant in June, 2016 with grant by the Luso American Foundation, FLAD. 2017 Fellow at the New York Foundation for the Arts Program. Kátia contributes to literary journals in Brazil, Portugal, USA and France including La Cause Littéraire, Curious Fiction, Words without Borders, pnetliteratura.pt e Jornal Rascunho (www.rascunho.com.br). “Colisões Bestiais Particula(res)” (“Collisions in Particles, a Bestiary”) was published by Editora Confraria do Vento in January 2015 and as “Colisiones Bestiales” in Spanish by Diaz Grey Editores @ McNally and Jackson, Soho, New York in March, 2016. A new book, Jogos (Ben)ditos e Folias (Mal)ditas (“Blessed Games, Cursed Follies”) was officially launched by Editora Confraria do Vento at the international literary fair of Poços de Caldas, Flipoços in May 2017. Kátia is a frequent guest writer at the West Point Academy and Columbia University.

Visit her website for more information: https://katiabandeirademello.com

Thank you for this lovely conversation, Kátia!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Thrilled to be arts calling aureleo sans today!

aureleo sans is a flamingo. she is also a Colombian-American, non-binary, queer poet and writer with a disability. she grew up in various forms of homelessness in Miami, Barranquilla, Atlanta, St. Petersburg, and Phoenix before settling down in San Antonio, where she currently lives. her family limboed far below the poverty line until she escaped to chase the American Dream Unfulfilled.

she is a 2022 Tin House Scholar, Periplus fellow, a Macondista, a VONA alumnus, and a creative nonfiction associate editor at jmww. she was named the second-place winner of Fractured Lit’s 2021 Micro Fiction Contest, a longlister for the 2021 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize, and a semi-finalist for the 2021 American Short Fiction Halifax Ranch Prize. she is a 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2022 Best Microfiction nominee.

aureleo is presently working on two projects:

• THE GLORIOUS POOR, a collection of short stories set in a housing project community confronting the specters of gentrification, the pandemic and a possible apocalypse.
• FLAMINGO, a memoir investigating legacy or rather, what is left behind after the shrapnel of intergenerational poverty and a life spent poor, queer, and different.

Twitter https://twitter.com/aureleos

Visit https://www.aureleos.com/readme for her latest published works.

Thanks for inspiring us, aureleo!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I’m so excited to be arts calling Leticia Urieta!

Leticia Urieta is Tejana writer from Austin, TX. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University.

She works a teaching artist in the Austin community with a focus on the pedagogy of equity in creative writing. She is the Regional Program Manager for Austin Bat Cave and is the director of Barrio Writers in Austin, a free college level youth writers workshop founded by author and activist Sarah Rafael Garcia in Santa Ana, CA.

Her creative work appears in PANK, Chicon Street Poets, Lumina and many others. Her fiction explores the intersections of Latinx identity with the folklore, traditional stories and the supernatural or speculative. Her mixed genre collection of poetry and prose, Las Criaturas, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.

Leticia loves living in Austin with her husband and two dogs who are terrible work distractions. Despite all, she is fueled by sushi and breaks to watch pug videos on Instagram.

Las Criaturas now available here: https://www.flowersongpress.com/store-j9lRp/p/lascriaturas

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Adrienne Crezo!

Adrienne Crezo is an editor, Pushcart-nominated writer, and Tin House scholar (2022) of Comanche descent. She lives in Ohio and on Twitter @adriennecrezo. You can find her work in Complete Sentence, HAD, Moist Poetry Journal, The Indianapolis Review, and elsewhere now and forthcoming.

Thanks for this wonderful conversation, Adrienne!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am so excited to be arts calling Andrea Deeken!

About Andrea:

Andrea Deeken was born in rural Missouri. Her writing has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Beyond Queer Words, The Blue Mountain Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Valley Voices, and elsewhere. Her awards include an Honorable Mention in the 2019 Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and second place in the 2020 Blue Mountain Review LGBTQ Chapbook Contest, among others. Her debut chapbook, Mother Kingdom, won the 2021 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Competition and was a finalist in the Poetry: Chapbook Category of the 2022 International Book Awards. A former book editor, she has worked for the Multnomah County Library for fifteen years. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her wife and daughter.

You can order a copy of Mother Kingdom through the Slapering Hol Press online bookstore. Use the code FREESHIP for free US shipping!

Visit Andrea’s website: andreadeeken.com.

Twitter @drelo and Instagram @andrea.deeken. 

Thanks for this inspiring conversation, Andrea!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Today I am so happy to be arts calling Monica Cross!

About Monica:

Monica Cross studied English at New College of Florida (2006-2010), before going on to Mary Baldwin College (now Mary Baldwin University) where she earned her Master of Letters (2012) and M.F.A. (2013) in the Shakespeare and Performance graduate program.  She was a part of the first year of the MFA company model, and a founding member of Roving Shakespare.  She studied with Make Trouble in 2017, and has done choreography intensives with Intimacy Directors International and Neutral Chaos.   

She has been the Playhouse Manager at the American Shakespeare Center, the Production Manager at Starlite Players, the Text Coach at the St. Petersburg Shakespeare Festival, and a Costume Designer for The Urbanite. From 2014-2019, she was the Production Manager and Technical Director of the Black Box Theater at New College of Florida, where she also taught courses in theatrical design. She has also taught at the University of South Florida St. Peterburg and Ringling College of Art and Design.

Most recently, she has turned her attention towards playwriting. Her short plays have been produced in across the United States and online. Her one-act, Cyrano on the Moon, was produced at both the Tampa Fringe Festival and the Minnesota Fringe Festival. And her first full-length play, Wonder of Our Stage, was the winner of The Players New Play Festival in 2018 and produced as part of the Players Summer Sizzlers Series in 2019.  Her newest full-length play, The Aria of Julie d’Aubigny, the cross-dressing, sword-fighting, opera singer, wherein she seduces men and women alike, wins numerous duels, must be twice pardoned by the King, and eventually finds true love., was a semifinalist for both the O’Neill New Play Conference and the American Shakespeare Center’s Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries. 

She was also the recipient of the 2019 John Ringling Towers Individual Artist Award for Performing Arts, and a Fellow at the Hermitage Artist Retreat 2019

Thanks for coming on the show, Monica!

https://monicaatcross.wixsite.com/

On twitter: https://twitter.com/theroaringgirl

Thank you so much for this wonderful conversation, Monica!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Let’s get the show on the road! Today I am so excited to be arts calling Peter Clarke!

About Peter: Peter Clarke is the author of the comic novels Politicians Are Superheroes (Pski’s Porch Publishing, 2018) and The Singularity Survival Guide (Logos Literature, 2019). His short fiction has appeared in over 50 literary journals and his nonfiction has appeared in publications including Areo Magazine, The Humanist, The American Spectator, and Free Inquiry Magazine.

He’s the founding editor of Jokes Literary Review. Native to Port Angeles, Washington, he currently lives in Sacramento.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeyPeterClarke

For more information, visit: https://www.petermclarke.com/

Thank you so much for this wonderful conversation, Peter!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Thrilled to be arts calling Taccara the Creator!

About:

Taccara Martin is the epitome of the term “multi-hyphenate.” As a marketer, content creator, podcast editor/producer, and author, she has fallen in love with stories and their ability to connect people to each other. She wanted to create content that educated and inspired women through their healing journey, using her life and story as a template, along with the books written with her husband, Kenyon Martin. With a childhood upbringing in theatre and acting, she has endeavored to add script-writer and voice actress to her list of growing skills, as the writer and lead voice actress of Unmasked.

About the Unmasked Podcast:

Unmasked is an entertaining, scripted podcast where listeners will journey with Kenya as she tries to make sense of her career, love life, and her failures—through the lens of her therapist. Check it out here: https://unmasked.digital/

Visit Ask the Martins Relationship Coaching: https://askthemartins.com/

Taccara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theunmaskedshow

Thanks so much for this wonderful conversation, Taccara! All the best!

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Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Welcome! Today I am arts calling Kevin Carey!

About Kevin:

Kevin Carey is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published five books – a chapbook of fiction, The Beach People from Red Bird Chapbooks (2014) and three books of poetry from Cavankerry Press, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) and Set in Stone (2020) and a new crime novel Murder in the Marsh from Darkstroke Books.

His one-act plays have been staged at The New Works Festival in Newburyport, MA and The New Hampshire Theater Project and his co-written screenplay Peter’s Song (with Ed Boyle) won Best Screenplay at the 2009 New Hampshire Film Festival and Best Drama at the Woods Hole Film Festival. Kevin’s full-length play, The Stand or Sal is Dead, premiered at the Actor’s Studio in Newburyport, MA in June of 2018. Kevin is also a documentary filmmaker. His latest co-produced film (with Mark Hillringhouse and music by RG Evans) Unburying Malcolm Miller premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2017.

His short fiction can be found in several literary journals, including his short story “Home for the Holidays” which appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of The Apple Valley Review and was included in the Best of the Net Anthology and selected as one of the story South Million Writers top ten online stories of 2011. The Apple Valley Review, Kevin was also a 7th-grade basketball coach for nineteen seasons before stepping down a couple of years ago. (Photo by Mark Hillringhouse).

Visit Kevin’s website, https://kevincareywriter.com, for updates and more projects!

Purchase Kevin’s novel, Murder in the Marsh, now on Amazon!

Stop by Molecule, a Tiny Lit Mag!

Thanks for taking the time to chat, Kevin!

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Hi there,

Thanks for stopping by! Today I am so thrilled to be arts calling Kellie Scott-Reed!

About Kellie:

Assistant editor in chief of Roi Faineant Press: An enthusiast who can’t be bothered with the negative things to say. The tail to many comets,  the starfish savior, the harbinger of partially good news. Brushes with fame but not famous. A songwriter, a  poet, a short-story-at-work-when-I-should-be-doing-my-job-writer; I seek to live as many” truths” as one skin suit can without tearing at the seams. Justice is my hobby.

She writes songs for the band Fivehead that can be found on iTunes or Spotify. You can find her work all round, scattered about. She is a very happy person, and therefore loves dark things.

Stop by Roi Fainéant Press! https://www.roifaineantpress.com/

Visit YouTube for Kellie’s interview series, “A Word?”

Check out Kellie’s latest short story at Synchronized Chaos, Bulletproof Glass Smeared with Grease.

Kellie on Twitter @kelliescottreed

Thanks for this inspiring conversation, Kellie!

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Hi there,

Let’s get this thing started! Today I am arts calling Elaina Battista-Parsons!

About:

Elaina Battista-Parsons is a writer across genres. She also works as a reading coach for students with disabilities. Elaina loves ice cream, antiques, pop culture, and snow. Elaina’s poems and essays have been published by Backlash Press, Burnt Pine Magazine, Vine Leaves Press, and Read Furiously. She also has an upcoming YA novel with Inked in Gray Press.

Elaina’s website: https://elainawrites.com/

Italian Bones in the Snow: A Memoir in Shorts, out now! https://www.vineleavespress.com/italian-bones-in-the-snow-by-elaina-battista-parsons.html

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BraveIrene77

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/e.battista77/

Thanks so much for stopping by, Elaina! Let’s talk antiques next time!

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Hi there,

Today I’m delighted to be arts calling J. Simon Harris!

About J:

J. Simon Harris lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife Ashley, their son Luke, and their dogs Hallie and Lucy. In addition to literature and poetry, he loves science (and works as a scientist), videogames, movies, the outdoors, and most of all spending time with his family. He has translated poetry into English from Italian, Spanish, Ancient Greek, Old English, and Provencal. His translation of Dante’s Inferno in terza rima is now available on the Amazon Store. He is currently working on a translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova, and a translation of Homer’s Iliad in hexameter verse (and of course, he’s eager to start work on Purgatory). Much of his work, including translations and original poetry, is showcased on his blog (www.jsimonharris.com)

Purchase the new translation of Dante’s Inferno here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X2686G5/

Lemnos, a novel, now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M07II5P

Purchase the Pablo Neruda translation by J! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0848P6BN9

Thanks for coming on the show, J!

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Hi there,

Today I am delighted to bring you this conversation: Today I am arts calling Richard Jeffrey Newman!

About Richard: Poet. Literary co-translator. Essayist. Proud community college professor. Survivor of childhood sexual abuse. Curator, First Tuesdays reading series.

As a poet and essayist, Richard Jeffrey Newman’s work is rooted in the impact of feminism on his life as a man. As a co-translator of classical Persian poetry, he writes about the impact of that canon on our contemporary lives. His own books of poetry are, most recently, Words for What Those Men Have Done, (Guernica Editions 2017) and For My Son, A Kind of Prayer (Ghostbird Press in 2016). CavanKerry Press published his first book, The Silence of Men, in 2006. His most recent book of translations is The Teller of Tales: Stories From Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh (Junction Press 2011). Newman is on the Board of Directors of Newtown Literary and curates the First Tuesdays reading series in Jackson Heights, NY. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College. After ten years of service to his union, he is once again focusing on his writing. His website is http://richardjnewman.com.

Thank you so much for talking with me, Richard!

(TW: Experiences of sexual violence are briefly discussed in this episode).

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Hi there,

This is Jaime Alejandro. Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Eli Godfrey!

Eli is a writer and voice actor based in Los Angeles.

https://www.eligodfrey.com/

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3229378/

Eli’s poetry collection, Imagine a World, now on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Imagine-World-Poems-about-dictators-ebook/dp/B09RZX9GZJ

Thanks for this awesome conversation, Eli!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month may have ended, but we have a handful more episodes with poets this May! Today I’m so excited to be arts calling Shaine Greenwood, our first ever repeat guest!

About Shaine:

Shaine Greenwood is a Seattle-based writer, artist, and weirdo. He writes poetry, sci-fi, and literary fiction with a focus on people and what makes them tick. You can find his work here:

youaremuted.com

Check out The Aether, now on Amazon!

Also, here’s Shaine’s poetry collection, Faces.

Thanks so much for taking the time to chat Shaine, what a blast!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month may have ended, but we have a handful more episodes with poets this May! Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Lynne Jensen Lampe!

About Lynne:

She inherited a wooden bowl, her grandpa’s pipe, and a bug saved since 1944 when her mother, only 10, had something stuck in her ear. Tethers to the past still waiting for their poem. But her dad’s Smith Corona typewriter? Her mother’s mental illness? Already on the page.

Lynne Jensen Lampe writes poetry about family, mental illness, and societal expectations. Following and breaking rules. Stigma. Soon after Lynne was born, her mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent from the air base in Newfoundland to a hospital in Florida, the first of many such separations.

Lynne’s poems appear in Yemassee, Anti-Heroin Chic, The American Journal of Poetry, Rock & Sling, Small Orange, LIT Magazine, and elsewhere. Her chapbook about mother-daughter relationships and mental illness, Talk Smack to a Hurricane, is forthcoming from Ice Floe Press in 2022. She is a Best of the Net nominee, and her poem “Stirring the Ashes” was a finalist for the 2020 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.

When not writing, Lynne edits academic books, research journals, and YA novels. She lives in mid-Missouri with her musician husband and a friendly number of dust bunnies.

Visit her website for publications and the latest updates! https://lynnejensenlampe.com/

Thanks for coming on the show, Lynne!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month may have ended, but we have a handful more episodes with poets this May! Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Anindita Sengupta!

About:

Anindita Sengupta is the author of Only the Forest Knows (Paperwall, forthcoming), Walk Like Monsters (Paperwall, 2016), and City of Water (Sahitya Akademi, 2010). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several anthologies and in journals such as Plume, 580 Split, per happened, Feral, One and Breakwater Review. She has received fellowships / awards from the Charles Wallace Trust India, the International Reporting Project, TFA India and Muse India.

Her journalistic articles have appeared in The Guardian, UK, and many Indian publications. She was founder-editor of Ultraviolet.in, a webzine for young Indian feminists. With over two decades of experience in writing, journalism and communications management, she has worked for non-profits such as Gender at Work, Samuha India and Fida International.

She is from Mumbai, India, and currently lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Visit aninditasengupta.com for the latest publications!

Thanks for coming on the show, Anindita!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month continues! Today I am so happy to be arts calling Jennifer Schomburg Kanke!

About: Jennifer Schomburg Kanke is a writer and editor living in Tallahassee, Florida. She is the author of the chapbook of micropoems Fine, Considering (Rinky Dink Press, 2019) about her experiences undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer; the winner of the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s annual contest in 2013 for the under 10 line category; and has been nominated for both the Pushcart and the Best of the Net. Her work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Salamander, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, Nimrod, and other journals. She is also an active member in the Poetry Witch Community, helping publicize Annie Finch’s course offerings and serving as instructional support for a self-paced course in metrical poetry. She was previously Reviews Editor at Pleiades, Poetry Editor for the Southeast Review, an editor at Quarter After Eight and a reader for Emrys. She has a PhD from Florida State University and multiple degrees (MA, MEd, and BSEd) from Ohio University. Her current writing projects include a novel-in-verse about Appalachian Ohio from the 1930s to the early 2000s and a fictional memoir written by entraining to William Wordsworth’s “The Prelude.” Her writing often covers topics related to socioeconomic class, C-PTSD, Appalachia, and the environment. She blogs sporadically (typically about new NSA cookie recipes she’s developing) at https://lightmeridian.wordpress.com. If you’d like to contact her about her writing, you can find her on Twitter @JSK1975.

For Jennifer’s latest publications, visit: http://www.jenniferschomburgkanke.com

Thanks for coming on the show, Jennifer!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am arts calling Jared Beloff!

About:

Jared Beloff earned degrees at Rutgers University (BA in English) Johns Hopkins University (MA in English Literature, specializing in the novel and Romantic/18th Century Literature).

Jared has been an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College, an English teacher and a teacher mentor in NYC public schools for 15 years.

Jared is currently a peer reviewer for The Whale Road Review. His poetry can be found in Contrary Magazine, Barren Magazine, KGB Bar Lit, The Shore, Rise Up Review, Bending Genres and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Queens, NY. www.jaredbeloff.com

Click to purchase Marvelous Verses today!!

For Jared’s latest publications online, visit: https://www.jaredbeloff.com/publications

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/Read_Instead

Thanks for coming on the show, Jared!

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Hi there,

Hope you’re having an excellent National Poetry Month! Today I am thrilled to be arts calling Beth Gordon!

About: Beth Gordon is a poet, mother and grandmother currently living in Asheville, NC.

Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net, Pushcart and the Orison Anthology. She is the author of two chapbooks: Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe (Animal Heart Press) and Particularly Dangerous Situation (Clare Songbird Publishing). She is Managing Editor of Feral, Assistant Editor of Animal Heart Press and Poetry Editor of Gone Lawn.

Stop by bethgordonpoetry.com for more information!

The Water Cycle, Beth’s latest collection, is out now! Purchase here: https://variantlit.com/product/the-water-cycle/

Thanks for coming on the show, Beth!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza rolls on and on! Today I am so excited to be arts calling Lannie Stabile!

About:

Lannie Stabile (she/her), a queer Detroiter, is the winner of OutWrite’s 2020 Chapbook Competition in Poetry and a back-to-back semifinalist for the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Lannie was also named a 2020 Best of the Net finalist. Her debut poetry full-length, Good Morning to Everyone Except Men Who Name Their Dogs Zeus, was published in 2021 by Cephalopress. In 2022, look out for her fiction debut, Something Dead in Everything (ELJ Editions). Find her on Twitter @LannieStabile or @NotALitMag, where she throws random writing contests and open mics.

Lannie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LannieStabile

For updates and recent poetry, stop by here: https://lanniestabile.com/

Something Dead in Everything, her debut fiction collection, is available for pre-order through . It has queer ghosts, murderous hamsters, and hungry geese! @EmergeJournal https://elj-editions.com/book-store/

Thanks for coming on the show, Lannie! All the best!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Extravaganza continues! Today I’m excited to be arts calling Lauren Theresa!

About:
Lauren Theresa is a divergent poet, herbalist, trauma therapist, and Hekatean witch living in NJ with her tiny family and menagerie of plants.

She moonlights as Poetry Editor with the awesome folks at Olney Magazine, and is the author of the forthcoming chapbook LOST THINGS (Bullshit Lit August ’22). Lauren’s work has been featured in HAD, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, Gutslut Press, Tiny Wren, Warning Lines, Daily Drunk Mag, that one awkward family gathering, and more.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImLaurenTheresa

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imlaurentheresa

Thanks for coming on the show, Lauren!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza is rolling along! Today I’m overjoyed to be arts calling Susan Nguyen!

About Susan:

Susan Nguyen’s debut poetry collection, Dear Diaspora, won the 2020 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Nebraska Press in Sept 2021. She has been the Senior Editor at Hayden’s Ferry Review since the end of 2021. Nguyen’s poetry is often interested in the body: how geography, history, and trauma leave markers, both visible and invisible. Her poems have been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize and have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Tin House, Diagram, and elsewhere. She is an alum of Tin House Winter & Summer Workshops and Idyllwild Writers Week. Her hobbies, beyond reading and writing, include photography, zinemaking, hiking, and otherwise being outdoors. Nguyen received her BA in English from Virginia Tech and her MFA in poetry from Arizona State University where she was the poetry editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. She has taught creative writing at ASU and the National University of Singapore. She is the recipient of multiple fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, including one that enabled her to conduct an oral history project centered on the Vietnamese diaspora. She was named one of “three women poets to watch in 2018” by PBS NewsHour.

Visit Susan’s website for more information: https://susanpoet.com/

Check out Susan’s amazing readings and recent publications here: https://linktr.ee/sanguyen

Purchase DEAR DIASPORA today! poetry books from University of Nebraska Press are 50% off until April 29th! Use this code for your discount: 6PM22

https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496227904/

Thanks for coming on the show, Susan!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month goes on and on! So thrilled to be arts calling Saúl Hernández today!

About Saúl:

Saúl Hernández is a queer writer from San Antonio, TX who was raised by undocumented parents. Saúl has an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. He’s the winner of the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize 2021 chosen by Victoria Chang. He’s a finalist for Palette Poetry 2020 Spotlight Award. Also, a finalist for the 2019 Submerging Writer Fellowship, Fear No Lit; semi-finalists for the 2018 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers, Nimrod Literary Journal. His poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net. Saúl’s work is forthcoming/featured in Frontier Poetry, Poet Lore, Foglifter Journal, Oyster River Pages, Cherry Tree, Atlanta Review, Quarterly West, PANK Magazine, Pidgeonholes, The Acentos Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, The Normal School, Rio Grande Review, and Adelaid Literary Magazine. He’s participated in MACONDO and Tin House Workshops. He currently lives in San Antonio, TX.

https://www.saulhernandez.net/

https://www.instagram.com/el_saulhernandez/

On Twitter too!

Thanks so much for coming on the show, Saúl!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues woohoo! Today I’m so happy to be arts calling Jay Rafferty!

About Jay: Jay Rafferty was born in County Armagh, Northern Ireland on Bloomsday 1997. He studied at St Patrick’s Grammar School, the same secondary school the Irish poet Paul Muldoon attended.

He completed his undergraduate studies at Ulster University (with a brief stint at San Diego State University) during which time he presented a paper at the SDSU Research Symposium, featured on a student panel at the Willa Cather Conference, attended several John Hewitt International Summer School events and competed in the All-Ulster Poetry Slam finals. His undergraduate thesis was concerned with advocacy for the New Adult genre with a specific focus on the work of Bryan Lee O’Malley and the web-series Bee and Puppycat. In 2020 he completed his master’s degree studies, again at Ulster University, with a heavy concentration on creative writing studies.

Since graduation he has been published widely in several literary journals throughout the United States and the UK. His poetry was nominated for the Best of the Net awards in 2021 by Sage Cigarettes Magazine, which he would later go on to join as Social Media Manager, and more recently as Poetry Editor. In these positions he has spearheaded book reviews, artist interviews and pride month features for the magazine’s website. March 2022 saw the release of his debut chapbook, Holy Things.

He is an uncle, an eejit and a terrible pool player.

Jay’s Website: https://jsprafferty.wixsite.com/jayraffertypoet-1

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Thank you for joining me on the show Jay! It was a pleasure!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am arts calling David Rosenthal!

As a poet:

David Rosenthal is the author of The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things (White Violet Press).  His poems and translations have appeared in print and online in Measure Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Raintown Review, Unsplendid, Birmingham Poetry Review, Modern Haiku, Umbrella, and several other journals. He has been a Pushcart Prize Nominee, a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award Finalist, and a Soul-Making Keats Sonnet Prize winner. davidrosenthal.weebly.com

As a Teacher:

David Rosenthal has been a credentialed public schoolteacher and instructional coach for the past twenty years.  He has served on multiple site and district committees and task forces, and has been a teacher leader in math, language arts, and social emotional learning.  He has designed and delivered professional development in multiple content areas, and is an experienced coach of new and veteran teachers.

Purchase The Wild Geography of Misplaced Things, now available on Amazon!

Check out more of David’s work available online here:

David Rosenthal Poems and Publications – David Rosenthal Poet and Teacher (weebly.com)

Thanks so much for coming on the show, David!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am so thrilled to be arts calling Alison Lubar!

About:

Alison Lubar teaches high school English by day and yoga by night. They are a queer, nonbinary femme of color whose life work (aside from wordsmithing) has evolved into bringing mindfulness practices, and sometimes even poetry, to young people.  Their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, is forthcoming with Thirty West Publishing in May 2022. Most recently, their work has been published by or is forthcoming with Moonstone Press, New York Quarterly, and Sinister Wisdom; you can find out more at http://alisonlubar.com/ or on Twitter @theoriginalison.

More on Linktree from Alison! https://linktr.ee/theoriginalison

Praise for Philosophers Know Nothing About Love:

“Alison Lubar’s Philosophers Know Nothing About Love is instantly recognizable as a triumph of language and the imagination. Its dreaminess, melodic charm, and entrancing sensual imagery have the extraordinary effect of slowing or halting time itself. What then emerges from each poem are these glimpses into a higher reality, the uncanny “sublime” beyond all mortal comprehension, gorgeously rendered to the page. Enchanting, otherworldy, intimate, and enthralling, Lubar’s debut is beyond what we call a stroke of brilliance; rather, it is a reflection of a doubtless talent, sure to sweep away their readers time and time again.⁠”

—Jonathan Koven, author of Palm Lines and Below Torrential Hill

Philosophers Know Nothing About Love, now on pre-sale here! www.thirtywestph.com/shop/philosophersknownothingaboutlove

Thirty West Publishing: www.thirtywestph.com

Thanks so much for coming on the show Alison!

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Hi there,

National Poetry Month Extravaganza begins! Ecstatic to be arts calling Karla Linn Merrifield!

Karla Linn Merrifield has had 1000+ poems appear in dozens of journals and anthologies. She has 15 books to her credit. Following her 2018 Psyche’s Scroll (Poetry Box Select) is the full-length book Athabaskan Fractal: Poems of the Far North from Cirque Press. Her newest poetry collection, My Body the Guitar, inspired by famous guitarists and their guitars was published in December 2021 by Before Your Quiet Eyes Publications Holograph Series (Rochester, NY). She is a frequent contributor to The Songs of Eretz Poetry Review.

Web site: https://karlalinnmerrifield.org;

Blog at https://karlalinnmerrifeld.wordpress.com;

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinnMerrifiel

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karlalinnm/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karlalinn.merrifield

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com.

If you’re a creative in the written, visual, or performing arts, and believe the arts make us and our communities better, I’d love to talk to you! Contact me here.

Arts Calling is a podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds making art no matter where they are. A case for the arts as the gateway to empathy, healthy lives, and strong communities.

Hi there,

Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! I’m overjoyed to be arts calling Christopher Soriano-Palma!

About: Christopher Soriano-Palma is a writer and bookseller. Born and raised in Watsonville, CA., he earned his MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. He is a contributor to Reclamation Magazine and a staff writer for Alebrijes Review. He has briefly volunteered as a screenwriting instructor for the Digital NEST, a nonprofit located in Watsonville. He currently lives in Los Angeles and is at work on several projects.

Visit Christopher’s Website/Blog here: christophersorianowrites.wordpress.com

Check out Chris’s favorite works at Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/shop/chsoripalma

Chris on Medium: chsoripalma.medium.com

And don’t forget to visit his Goodreads! Christopher Soriano-Palma (chsoripalma)

NHMC Scriptwriters Program that was mentioned: https://nhmc.org/writers/

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Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com.

If you’re a creative in the written, visual, or performing arts, and believe the arts make us and our communities better, I’d love to talk to you! Contact me here.