Personal Info
Currently works and lives in Los Angeles
Born in 1979
Contact: revisingloneliness at gmail dot com
Special Recognition
Most recent project covered by and featured in The Los Angeles Times
Flavorwire article on classic memoirs picked up by & featured in The Huffington Post
Flavorwire 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
Finalist. Italo Calvino Prize for Fabulist Fiction
Selected Online & Print Article Publications
2013
"Ian Baxter Re-imagines His 1966 Bagged Place in the Key of Rebecca." Beautiful / Decay Magazine
"Angelo Merendino Photographs His Wife's Battle With Terminal Cancer." Beautiful / Decay Magazine
"Vintage Paparazzi Photographs Make Me Love LA." Beautiful / Decay Magazine
"Photographing the Weight of Nakedness in Nudity." Beautiful / Decay Magazine
"P.S.1010: A Collaborative Presence Without Agenda." Mobilizing Ideas, The Center for the Study of Social Movements at The University of Notre Dame
"Open Letter to Los Angeles."Thought Catalog
"What Is Reflected / Where We Meet." Daily Serving: An International Publication for Contemporary Art
2011
"Classic Memoirs and their Contemporary Counterparts." (with Paris Lia), Flavorwire
"Oprah's Top Literary Scandals." (with Paris Lia), Flavorwire
2010
"Double Trouble: The Good and Bad of Literary Puns." (with Paris Lia), Flavorwire
"Required Reading: 8 Suprising Serialized Reads." (with Paris Lia), Flavorwire
"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
Selected Performance & Literary Readings
2013
Performance. ENTER>text at Concord Space, Los Angeles, CA
Performance. Smokin' Hot Lit Lounge at LA Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles, CA
Performance. ENTER>text in Silverlake Hills, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Performance. ENTER>text at Concord Space, Los Angeles, CA
Featured Reader. Featherless Reading Series at Stories, Los Angeles, CA
Reader. Granny Squares at Improv Olympic, Los Angeles, CA.
2011
Featured Reader. Poetry in the Piazza, Portland, OR
2005
Featured Reader. Artifact, San Francisco, CA
2002
Featured Reader. 4 x 4 Gallery Readings, Boulder, CO
Selected Literary Publications
2012
"Excavation." The Destroyer Magazine, V.1.2
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)
2004
“Crossing To.” (in collaboration with Melissa R. Benham), How2, V.2.2
“names for time sequences.” Blazvox2k4
2003
“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
Visual Art Solo Exhibitions
2013
The Los Angeles Project. Flying Object, Hadley, MA
2012
The Los Angeles Project. Borgia Gallery, Chicopee, MA
2009
Flora & Fauna. Harmony Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Visual Art Group & Two Person Show Exhibitions
2012
Dinosaurs & Analog Conversions. King King, Los Angeles, CA
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
Junior Editor & Regular Contributor
2013 - Current
Beautiful / Decay: An Art & Design Blog
Editor & Creator
2012 - Current
Revising Loneliness: An Art Blog
Co-Editor & Co-Creator
2010 - 2012
Slack Lust: Literary Publication & Reading Series
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)
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.
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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