Curriculum Vitae
Education
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
Bachelor of Arts, English Writing; Magna cum laude
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Magna cum laude
cirriculum vitae
Residency; writing & conceptual artworks, Mineral School, fiscally sponsored by Shunpike Foundation in Mineral, WA, September & November 2024.
Night Light Reading Series [formerly Performance Anxiety], hosted by Tom Snarsky, reading new work on gender & consent, May, 23 p.m. EST
Night Light Reading Series [formerly Performance Anxiety], hosted by Tom Snarsky, March 21, 9 p.m. EST
Writing residency, Mineral School, fiscally sponsored by Shunpike Foundation in Mineral, WA, November 2023.
Interview, “Sneaker Waves” in Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste, printed and produced on unceded Nisqually land, November 2023.
Featured Reader: Chat Rooms Reading Series [formerly Really Serious Literature], as seen in True Northwest Magazine, Lucky Dime, Everett, WA, November 2023.
Staff reporter, the Calaveras Enterprise, covering both assigned stories and breaking news of Calaveras County’s 64,000+ residents in 1,000 square miles, 2023.
Last Day, a poem about labor and solidarity, published in Which Side Are You On?, Philadelphia PA, October 2023.
Citation in The Rumpus interview with poet J. Bailey Hutchinson, “the strange, the surprising, the slightly off-center: a Rumpus Conversation with J. Bailey Hutchinson,” by Josh Luckenbach, April 2023
Cover Artist, Alien Buddha Press, July 2022.
AWP Offsite reading with Alien Buddha Press, Philadelphia, PA, March 2022.
Women’s History Poetry Reading with Random Lane Press, March 2022.
Curator, Women’s Work 1830 to the Present: Calaveras County’s Quilts, Calaveras County Museum and Archives, San Andreas, CA, 2022.
Co-Editor, Community of Writers Anthology, Written Here and There, 2021.
Featured Reader, Poetry on the Patio Reading Series, Wolverine Publick House, Fort Collins, CO, May 2020.
Voice Actor, The Nasiona Podcast, “Places and Names,” with guest Carl Boon, September 2020.
Recurring Guest, Mutiny Radio, with Director Pam Benjamin Wednesdays at noon PST, Mission District, San Francisco, CA—2020 to the present.
FIREBREAK Series hand-dyed silk scarves inspired by the Butte Fire, High Sierra Framing + Gallery, Arnold, CA, 2019-2021.
Top 20 Things to Do After Quarantine Is Over, The Poetry Workshop at The Community of Writers, 2021.
A Parliament of Poets: One Year of Collaborative Poetry, published by Bug & Bird Works, 2021.
Recipe for Dinner in July of the Pandemic Year, published in Magpies: a Zoem Anthology, 2020
Zoem, founding member, 2020
Light, Vaulted, published by Drunk Monkeys Literary Magazine, 2020
Residency, Community of Writers, 2020
AWP Offsite reading with Tupelo Press, San Antonio, TX, March 2020.
LitCrawl Seattle, reading new & selected work, The Highline Bar, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, October 2019.
Dead Rabbits Books Reading Series, a selection of recent work, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA, 2019.
Five Star Review for a Cordless Rotary Tool, Soft Tissue published by Back Patio Magazine, 2019.
Night/Light, Mating Habits of Endemic Species, Animal Vegetable Mineral, For Jim Dine’s Green Picture in My Meadow, poems exploring themes of consent and conservation, published by 24HR Neon Magazine, Brooklyn, NY, 2019.
Writer-in-residence, Mineral School, Mineral, WA, August 2019.
FEATURED ARTIST, conceptual textile artwork & namesake for Kissing Dynamite, Issue 5, Body Bag, installation and detail views, Body Bag series, 2008-current, May, 2019.
California to Tennessee, Headlight Anthology, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, April 2019.
High Definition, Whose Entire Life I Knew, Janie in the Pool Swimming, Issue 21, Breach, 580 Split, an annual journal of arts and letters from Mills College, Oakland, CA, May 2019.
TUPELO PRESS 30/30 Marathon Poet, one new poem written, edited, published each day for 30 consecutive days; as a fundraiser for Tupelo Press, an independent nonprofit publisher highlighting marginalized voices, March 2019.
Galosta and 70,686 Acres published in Collective Unrest, March 2019.
AWP Offsite Reading for Silver Needle Press, recent work speaking to complications of consent in medical settings, Portland, Oregon, March 2019.
70,868 Acres, published in The Hellebore’s Gold in the Soil Spring 2019 issue, Sacramento, CA.
Residency, Firefly Farms & Sundress Publications, Knoxville TN, January 2019.
Contemporaries, included in the #finalpoems series from ENTROPY MAGAZINE, December 2018.
FEATURED ARTIST, Summer's End at Murphys Pourhouse, Murphys, CA, September 2018.
FIREBREAK and other works, Iron Triangle Brewing Company, DTLA, CA, September 2018.
Damn/Spot and Wunderkammer, 2013-2018, published by OPOSSUM, Winter 2018.
Stereoscope: Pioneer Cabin Tree: Winner of the Walt Whitman Prize published by The Raw Art Review, Fall 2018
A Trick or Two and Of Exclusion, published by Silver Needle Press, Winter 2018
DAMN SPOT II: artwork; of a series, composition of 617 cotton patches, manufactured & sold specifically for cleaning the muzzle & chamber of an AR-15 semiautomatic assault rifle after use; water-soluble film stabilizer, thread, acrylic featured in Art & Disruption group show, Los Angeles, CA, November 2018
Death Rattle Writers Festival, Downtown Nampa, ID, October 2018
Residency at MINERAL SCHOOL to continue work on manuscript, 'Don't Ever Doubt Me,' June 2018; additional community outreach to residents of Mineral, Washington in a series of resist dyeing workshops, utilizing Procion dyes, June 2018
Nursery published by Oregon-based literary journal, Virga, Spring 2018
DAMN SPOT I exhibited at bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, May 2018
DAMN SPOT II, image; detail, published by Red Flag Poetry Service & sent as postcards via USPS, Indiana, PA, May 2018
DAMN SPOT II exhibited at CTRL Collective , Los Angeles, CA, March 2018
Residency, Community of Writers, 2016
YARN OVER: New Work by Jill Bergantz, solo show at The Box Gallery, Galesburg, IL
RICHTER SCHOLAR, funded development of works exploring cultural anxieties toward the human body, 2009
RICHTER SCHOLAR, funded development of written works exploring community interdependence in relation to natural disasters, 2008
Bender Prize in Sculpture, Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Galesburg, IL, 2009
BODY BAG exhibited at The Box Gallery, Galesburg, IL, 2009
'By Passing' published in Catch, Spring 2009
HOME/SICKNESS (essay), Medical Blanket (artwork), Wildlife Protection Act (proof-of-concept for larger installation) published in Catch, Spring 2008
My Sister Nurses Obsessions published in Catch, Winter 2007
Relief Maps: Calaveras County, California exhibited at Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Works highlighted in talk, "Downloading the Textile Future: The Current and Future State of Contemporary Fiber," Vic De La Rosa, given at the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Wildlife Protection Act and Medical Blanket exhibited at the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Medical Blanket exhibited at Olive Hyde Art Gallery, Fremont, CA, April 2007
Publication in ARTWEEK magazine, Winter 2007
Residency, Community of Writers, 2006
'I WILL NOT BE COLD' exhibited at the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2006
No Shy Evening Primrose published in Transfer, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2006
'I WILL NOT BE COLD' commissioned by the St. Vincent De Paul Society, San Francisco, CA, Fall 2005
JOBS HELD, A SELECTION
in real estate, at the height of the recession / as a driver, of a large van, in a state and winter unfamiliar, of international prospective students from the airport in the city in which 'The Blues Brothers' was filmed, to a city sixty miles away where Maytag once produced all the washers in all the world / at the front desk of the first whitewater rafting company to run wooden boats all the way down the Colorado, clear through the Grand Canyon / verifying potential leads for aftermarket part sales in the ready mix concrete industry / shipping & quality control for aforementioned job / and later, as Director of Sales and Marketing for the aforementioned engineering firm: call me; we'll talk concrete / slushie-slinger at the kids baseball field down the street from the house I grew up in / staff writer for the only newspaper in a small county; we proudly published Thursdays / historian & docent for the museum with the largest collection of rolling stock west of the Mississippi / teaching friendly people how to knit / humidor-stored fingering-weight cashmere-slinging saleswoman at one of the premier fiber arts stores in the San Francisco Bay Area / teaching twelve-year-olds what poison oak looks like and how to spot anemones in tide pools while at sleep-away camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains / and waiting tables / freelance editing / copy editing & manuscript polishing / voice actor / orator / curator / certified California Naturalist / nurserywoman / conceptual fiber artist / poet.