Personal Info
Currently works and lives in Los Angeles
Born in 1979
Contact: thelosangelesproject at yahoo dot com
Special Recognition
2011
Flavorpill article on classic memoirs picked up by & featured in The Huffington Post.
2010
Flavorpill article on literary puns mentioned in The New Yorker's "Book Bench."
Pushcart Prize Nominee for "Sociology of Containers"
Semi-Finalist. SLS Unified Literary Contest for Fiction
2009
Finalist. Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction
Selected Essay & Article Publications
2011
"Classic Memoirs and their Contemporary Counterparts" (with Paris Lia), Flavorpill
"Life After Death & The Art of Don Nace." Slack Lust
"{the balloon}." Slack Lust
"Oprah's Top Literary Scandals." (with Paris Lia), Flavorpill
2010
"Eileen Myles and Other Outfits." Slack Lust
"Double Trouble: The Good and Bad of Literary Puns." (with Paris Lia), Flavorpill
"Required Reading: 8 Suprising Serialized Reads." (with Paris Lia), Flavorpill
"The Artist and Her Muse.” Language In-Form: Works by Wanrudee Buranakorn
2008
“Shooting War: Truth & Technology in Combat.” Artillery: Killer Text on Art
"LSD, The Internet & Revolution." Artillery: Killer Text on Art
2006
"Flower of Evil." BUST Magazine
"Assembly + Craft = Artifact." Venus Zine
"Mary Rachel Fanning: The Art of Storytelling." Ellipsis Magazine
Co-Editor & Co-Creator
2010 - Ongoing
Slack Lust: Picking Up Where Others Leave Off
Selected Literary Journal Publications
2010
“Excerpt from 1994." Thuggery and Grace, Issue #5
“The Sociology of Containers.” Versal, V.8
2009
“underneath there is snow.” qarrtsiluni
2008
“Horses.” Carve Magazine (December)
2007
“Constructed Within for Healthier Living.” Past Simple (Summer)
2006
"Like a Disease." Ellipsis Magazine (April)
“Time.” Ellipsis Magazine (January)
2004
“Crossing To.” (in collaboration with Melissa R. Benham), How2, V.2.2
“names for time sequences.” Blazvox2k4
2003
“Excerpts from The White Album.” Poems from Penny Lane
“She Draws a Regarding Fiction.” Three Therefore Two, V.2
“Excerpt from Anastacia.” Aught, 11/12
“Excerpt from Anastacia: A Film.” Can We Have Our Ball Back?
“textures of context.” Milk Magazine, V.5
“Album.” Bombay Gin #29
“January.” (in collaboration with Brian Evenson) Web Conjunctions
Guest Designer In Selected Book Publications
2009
"Shirley Slippers." Pop Goes Crochet, Vickie Howell, Lark Books (p. 53)
2008
"The Cleopatra Vintage Button Necklace." Bead Simple, Susan Beal, Taunton Press (p. 91)
Visual Art Solo Exhibitions
2009
flora & fauna. Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Art Group Exhibitions
2008
Internal Environments. gallery revisited, Los Angeles, CA
2007
That Show 2. gallery revisited, Los Angeles, CA
Everything Must Go. glu gallery/hlt, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Little and Lots. Here Gallery, Bristol, UK
2003
Después de la Caida. Galería Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico
La Muerte y otras salidas. Governor’s Palace, Tlaxcala, Mexico
2001
Fall. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
Co-Screenwriter
2008
"Now And Nowhere"
Dir. Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas.
Prod. Collaboration Factory.
Official Selection: Holland Animation Film Festival. Beverly Hills Film Festival. Malibu Film Festival.
Selected Literary Readings
2011
Featured. Poetry in the Piazza, Portland, OR
hosted by Jesse Morse, coordinated by David Abel
2005
Featured. Artifact San Francisco, CA
2002
Featured. 4 x 4 Gallery Readings Boulder, CO
2001
Essayist. Sigma Tau Delta Conference Corpus Christi, TX
Education
M.F.A. Writing and Poetics, Prose, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
Advisor: Junior Burke
Creative Thesis: Metastasis
Critical Thesis: Diane Arbus Reflected (In Lieu of Laura Mulvey’s Visual Hierarchy)
B.A. English, Creative Writing Minor, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
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