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, verbal, we are always artist and audience. This blessed weave always moves us into the moment of seeing and being seen. My fiction, poetry, journalism, non-fiction , and short plays have received several awards and has appeared in numerous platforms, including Big Blend Magazine, BluePepper, Fringe of Marin Festival , Marin Independent Journal, Pandemic Puzzle Poems, Riverbed Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, Postcard Poems and Prose, Visual Verse. Chapbooks: True North (Origami Poems Project), Coyote In the Basket of My Ribs (Alabaster Leaves). Forthcoming: Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press). More Two Odes to Ukraine: 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