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Lisa Gale Garrigues Award-winning writer of fiction, poetry, journalism and essays

Lisa Gale Garrigues
Lisa Gale Garrigues
Member since: Mar, 2009
Last login: 11/17/2009
Last update : 10/06/2009
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  • Lisa Gale Garrigues was born in Los Angeles and has lived in Spain, France, Switzerland, England, Peru and Argentina, working as a teacher, writer, translator and private investigator. Her poetry, essays and short fiction have appeared in Writer's Digest, Nimrod, Southwestern American Literature, Literal Latte, and other journals, and she has published three poetry chapbooks.A contributing editor to Yes Magazine, she has covered Latin American and Native American issues for Yes, Pacific News Service, Indian Country Today, and other media.

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  • Money, Red Room, and My Imaginary Book

    October 4, 2009

    • Like everybody else, I recently got a couple of emails from Red Room requesting money. I don't have a problem with that.  I know that venture capital is harder to come by these days and websites have got to pay their staff somehow.  So I will probably give them something,  as a token of my appreciation for their hosting this lively and articulate community.But one of the two emails I received, ...
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  • Incredible Shrinking Word? Not.

    September 29, 2009

    • I was going to launch into a blog- whine about The Incredible Shrinking Word, which was going to be my clever way of bemoaning the death of print journalism, and the fact that one of my editors just sliced my paychecks for freelance articles by a third.Instead I will link to this advice to a fellow  writer from Red Room member and Salon.com advice columnist Cary Tennis, and shut up.PS:  I never ...
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  • Why I Have That Monkey On My Back

    September 27, 2009

    • Several people have asked me what that thing is on my shoulder in my profile photo. So I will now let the secret out: it's a monkey.  The monkey and I were in the backyard  of a tiny café in a Peruvian jungle town called Salvacion, where I was on an investigative assignment for the newspaper Indian Country Today. I have never really considered monkeys my power animals, preferring the ...
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  • In the Room with Charles Manson

    September 25, 2009

    • Susan Atkins, ex-Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer of Sharon Tate, died today.  Her death brought me back to when I was fifteen years old and staring across the room at Charles Manson.The room was a courtroom in Los Angeles,  crowded with spectators who had stood in line for hours outside to witness a trial that shocked the nation.  Tate, more than eight months pregnant,  and ...
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  • Obsession. Passion. Fixation.

    August 5, 2009

    • I am obsessed withgetting it right.  By this I mean I am obsessed with the unavoidable knowledge that I  will only live this one life this one time, even if I allow for reincarnation and the possibility that I'll come back as a three-toed sloth.  So I want to be as human as I can be this time around.  I don't necessarily mean 'right' in the sense of 'right and wrong', I mean 'right' in the ...
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  • Jayne Lyn-- I appreciate how

    Jayne Lyn-- I appreciate how well you have written this deeply honest and powerful piece. Wow. And I agree with you that the victim's feelings should mean something in this case.

  • Amber

    A beautiful and interesting piece, Mary.

  • The Blur

    Hi Susan, By 'entering the blur' I did not mean that one should stay blurry, but rather that one can choose to embrace the unknown and allow it, eventually, to define itself, or carve some definition

  • Thanks for your comments

    Mary--as we both know, a single dot many times multiplied can become a word, a sentence, a page, even a book.

  • Thank you

    ..for sharing this lovely vignette, a testament to the talent and imagination of both artists and writers. "It's wherever you want it to be..." Superb.

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