About Karen Pierce Gonzalez
Art Folklore Writing
It's true: life is art. A continual coming together of elements; many unseen until ready. Until we are ready.
Whether visual, kinetic, acoustic, or verbal, we are always artist and audience. This blessed weave moves us into the moment of seeing and being seen.
Contact: kpgfolkheart@gmail.com
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My fiction, poetry, journalism, non-fiction, and short plays have received several awards and have appeared in numerous platforms, including Big Blend Magazine, BluePepper, Cold Moon Journal, Eat the Storms Podcast, Fringe of Marin Festival, GAS: Poetry, Art, Music, Nightingale and Sparrow, San Francisco Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Storms Journal, Visual Verse, and Wise Owl. More
Chapbooks: True North (Origami Poems Project), Coyote In the Basket of My Ribs (Alabaster Leaves), Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), RavenSong (Poetic Librettos), Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press), Sun and Moon Wired Together (forthcoming Midsummer Dream House). More Read What Others Say
Special Projects include bird psalm (hybrid journey of bird nest fragments), The Whiskey Tree Poets' Untamed Wave 1 (Broken Spine Arts), North Bay Poetics co-host, and More
As a folklorist, I facilitate folklore-related and creative writing workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and am a former folklore columnist for Big Blend Magazine. I have also written several folklore-related books, including Writing Your Own Family Stories, Seaweed Song, and Turn Treasured Memories into Folklore. In my folkloric bag, research on scarecrows as folk art and an original animal tale that opened Season 2 of the Supernatural Park podcast. Note: A shout out to Beaver for this tale!
As FolkHeart Press publisher, I produce the Ekphrastic Folk Art blogzine. Four issues each year are compiled into a free, downloadable anthologies. More
My assemblage/mixed-media art is a conversation with the grain of tree bark and other
natural elements including flora, fibers, and found objects. 75+ art images have been published, seven of them as cover art. July 2022 Artist Spotlight, National Arts Program. Art exhibits include Santa Rosa Arts Center, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Tiny Galleries Kiosk, Truckenbrod Gallery,Vallejo Historical Museum, and Virtual Art in the Park. More Art Projects include The Wombwell Rainbow 2024 Ekphrastic Poetry Month, City Companions, an award-winning collaboration of collage and poetry with Marcelle Newbold, and more.
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My former work as a seasoned, award-winning public relations professional was designed to shed light on the good work of others. Clients and projects appeared on traditional and online media outlets, including NBC TV, CBS TV, KTVU TV, Northbay Biz, Bay Area Business Women, New York Post, Denver Post, The San Francisco Chronicle and more. Details
