Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer, editor, and educator who activates creativity as a powerful tool for personal and social transformation.
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“For our poetry lovers, you can’t miss Even the Milky Way is Undocumented by Amy Shimshon-Santo! This is a testament to the lost, the loved, the courageous. Each poem is the past and future. Each page turns for those built by families that span political borders — families that see borders as nothing more than lines drawn by an invisible hand that’s long forgotten that we belong to the earth and not the other way around.”
-Ameries Book Club
“Piecework: Ethnographies of Place will shake up your world. This book completely floored me. These essays reminded me of a thesis on community. Its a beautiful love letter to community and how they make spaces for people who deserve spaces.”
-Janet Rodriguez for The Rumpus
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Warm Blooded Mammal With Hair
Inheritance of Peace (Substack Series) / Inheritance of Peace (Apple Podcasts)
Piecework: Ethnographies of Place
About Piecework:
“Culture Kinship and Creative Action,” Author Interview
“Being a Sanctuary Person” in Omnium Gatherum Quarterly
Random Experiments in Bioluminescence (Print)
Random Experiments in Bioluminescence (Audiobook)
Catastrophic Molting (Print)
Catastrophic Molting (Audiobook)
WORKSHOPS
1000 Voices Clay and Storytelling Workshops with Alma Cielo for LA Conservancy
Wear Your Story with the Circular Library
Write Your Story / Submit inquiry via email
Braille Challenge Writing Workshops
GeoStorytelling with Dr. Deike Peters, Listening to Ballona Project, SOKA University
RECENT READINGS
November 18: University Synagogue, Irvine
November 15: No Fest: A Beyond Baroque Fundraiser Reading
September 28: Palabras Literary Salon at Latinx With Plants
June 28: Poetry Reading for Joy as Resistance, Self Help Graphics & Art at Plaza de la Raza
June 22-27: Writing Fellow, Idyllwild Writers Week
May 3: L.A. Book Launch Random Experiments in Bioluminescence, Wanda Coleman Theater at Beyond Baroque.
April 22: Earth Citizen, University of Boulder at Colorado
March 28: AWP Offsite Reading at The Village Well
March 28: AWP Onsite Reading with Unsolicited Press
March 27: The Wor(l)ds We Carry, LAPL Central Library
March 26: Poetry at Mercado La Paloma
February 8: Reading at Zoe Blaq’s Exhibition, Self Help Graphics & Art, ArtShare LA
February 7: GeoStorytelling at Listening to La Ballona, SOKA University
“In a world divided by borders and barriers, Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo's multilingual readings serve as a reminder of our shared humanity.”
- International Women Writer’s Guild