Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo is a writer, editor, and educator who believes that creativity is a powerful tool for personal and social transformation.
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Warm Blooded Mammal With Hair
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