1. My memoir Me as her again has been shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing:
http://library.stanford.edu/saroyan/shortlistsrelease2010.html
2. My personal essay about reviving my 90s-era, L.A.-based performance art/folk/punk band Guitar Boy to perform at the wonderful Wonder Cabinet at Occidental College appears on the happening art blog Hyperallergic.
3. I will be in Yerevan, Armenia for the month of July to teach a brief workshop on body-based writing:
“Physical Translating”
A creative writing workshop
Saturdays, 10 am – 1 pm, July 10, July 17, July 24
The Women’s Resource Center, Zarubyan 34
“Physical Translating” is a body-based creative writing workshop for women. It will take place in conjunction with the WOW (Women-Oriented Women) Collective’s 3rd annual art intervention July 31-August 1, this year on Translation, at the Women’s Resource Center in Yerevan. In three Saturday morning three-hour sessions, workshop participants will collaborate to write prose (fiction and/or nonfiction, in English, Armenian, and/or other languages) about physical experiences — in illness, disconnection, pain, joy, experimentation, athleticism, sexuality, reproduction and otherwise.To stimulate discussion and prompt writing exercises, we will read short texts (in English and Armenian) by a range of contemporary multicultural women writers (possibly including Margaret Atwood, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Audre Lorde, Staceyann Chin), including Armenian writers (mostly selected from the anthologies Deviation, Matnashoonch and Der Hovanessian’s The Other Voice). Creative movement/performance exercises will also be incorporated to inspire writing. The series will culminate in a reading of new work during WOW’s weekend art intervention. A special section of the WRCA’s journal Feminist will feature work from “Physical Translating.”