The music of singer-songwriter Emily Jane White is the stuff to serenade souls of tortured mystics with. Smoky, dark, ethereal, this small town girl turned internationally acclaimed songstress grapples with pain, sorrow and the meaning of it all in her bluesy, folksy and deeply poetic melodies. With her first album– Dark Undercoat– recorded in...
Evan Karp is steeped so deeply in the Bay Area literary scene, that its nothing short of a miracle that he had time for this interview! Until two years ago, Evan called Savannah, Georgia home and had never experienced the glory that is a spoken word event. Since landing in San Francisco, he has...
I first met Abigail Wick when we were students together in the MFA Writing and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies. Impressed by her ability to string together an impeccable sentence, as well as her singular voice, I’ve followed Abigail’s writing adventures since we graduated in 2008. Over the past few months,...
My (Dani’s) introduction to Mike Sacks consisted of cyber-exchanging one another’s disturbing Cuddle Party articles. From there, the glory of his writing filled many sleepless nights with muffled outbursts of laughter which coincided with frequent suppression of the gag reflex, most recently a result of tearing through the pages of Sex: Our Bodies, Our...
The fact that Laine Justice creates her masterpieces of art with a series of paints and paint brushes– and not a magic wand– is utterly mind blowing, as is the patience and thoughtful time she carefully crafts each piece with. With an instinctual draw to the tender and delicate details of each character that...
Trane DeVore eats, breathes and sleeps with his creative wheels churning. The author of two published books of poetry– series/mnemonic (1999) and Dust Habit (2005) – he is currently at work on his UC Berkeley dissertation on “sensation and perception in Thoreau’s writing”. His poetry appears in numerous international publications and his photography was...
Terrie Samundra is an independent filmmaker and mother, currently serving as the Sponsorship & Marketing Manager for the Slamdance Film Festival. Her films have received numerous awards including the National Geographic All Roads Seed Grant, The Guttman Award, The Princess Grace Award, The Los Angeles Indian Film Festival’s award for Best Short, Best Narrative...
Tomas Moniz is the editor and founder of Rad Dad zine–winner of Utne Magazine’s Independent Media award for Best Zine in 2009–which is subtitled “a zine on radical parenting .” Tomas is a vibrant writer and speaker, who is not afraid to get down and dirty with his politics. For that reason, he was the perfect subject...
Esther Zinn is a freelance writer, editor, novelist, film director, and playwright based in New York City. I met her when we were students together in the MFA program at the New College. Over the years, I’ve been highly impressed by the drive and dedication Esther shows to carving out a writing life in a...