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Rebecca (Guyon) Farivar is a poet living in Oakland, California. She just returned from Lyon, France where she spent 12
hours a week teaching English and the rest of her time learning French,
drinking coffee, and searching for English-language books. Some writing
occured as well. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Saint Mary's College of California in May 2008. Her manuscript, Correct Animal, can be found in partial form in SMC's Saint Albert's Library, and she keeps hoping someone will check it out. (Call number 811.6 G993, in case you want to be that person.) Individual poems have been published in Press 1, Strange Machine, cold-drill, Fusion, and Wooden Teeth literary magazines and are forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Octopus Magazine, and Avatar Review. She is also a member of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and attended the poetry workshop for the first time in July 2008 where she worked with Robert Hass, C.D. Wright, Dean Young, and Lucille Clifton, as well as many other wonderful, new poets. In addition to her current teaching job, she has taught courses at the Art Institute of California, San Francisco and worked as a Reader and Teaching Intern at UC Berkeley and SMC, respectively. Prior to teaching English, she worked as a staff reporter for the Pleasanton Weekly, where she spent her days interviewing children, annoying the dispatchers at the police department, and attending school board meetings. Since leaving the newspaper, she has rediscovered her love for the serial comma. Email her at : rebecca.farivar [at] gmail [dot] com. |
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