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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, journalism, non-fiction , and poetry have appeared in  Big Blend Magazine, BluePepper, Lagom Journal,  Marin Independent Journal, Pandemic Puzzle Poems, Riverbed Review,   The San Francisco Chronicle, Postcard Poems and Prose, Visual Verse, Tiny Thimble Magazine, Twist in Time , and elsewhere.  Anyone who knows me, knows I like to get things done. With that in mind, I am happy to report that I am busily creating six (6!) chapbooks. Two of them are hybrid (poetry/prose/art).  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-

== Write Into Workshops == Partial List of Publications Film/Play  ( Script) Death Fog   Fringe of Marin Virtual Short Plays Festival Fiction, Non-Fiction  Partial List Above Her Feet     Timeworn Literary Journal Glowing in the Dark      Potato Soup Journal Growing Up Filipino II       Travels ... Cecilia Brainard   (Review)  Harvesting Yarrow    Thimble Literary Magazine   Listen Jake's Place      Twist in Time Literary Magazine It's Just Wind  Golden Walkman Magazine     Listen Latin Eyes        San Francisco Chronicle Learning to Love Books      San Francisco Chronicle Soobin      Lagom Journal    (pg 42-43) Storyteller Keeps Indian Tradition Alive      Canku Ota Table For One     Sonoma Style Magazine    Listen The Other Sister      Marin Independent Journal Think Poetry    Sitting Room Your After-Death Kiss    By Moonlight Poetry  Partial List Below:   Salmon Beauty  (poetry/collage)  Truckenbrod Gallery, Oregon  Listen Childhood Home   BluePepper Farewell from New Zeal

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