Beth Lisick (born December 13, 1968 in

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) is an

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, performer, and author of six books. With Arline Klatte, she co-founded the Porchlight Storytelling Series of

spoken word Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of ...

performances in

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in 2002. Her

performances were featured at the

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festival, the

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, Bumbershoot, and

Lilith Fair Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. It took place during the summers of 1997 ...

. She has toured with Sister Spit. She has also performed

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with the group White Noise Radio Theatre at

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and has an ongoing film and stage collaboration with Tara Jepsen. The pair wrote and acted in an original web series entitled "Rods and Cones", which was named one of Indiewire's 25 Best Series/Creators of 2014. In 2009, she appeared in the film ''Everything Strange and New'', directed by award-winning American filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw. The film screened at numerous

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including

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, and the

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, where it won the

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. In 2011, she received a grant from the Creative Work Fund to collaborate on a book project with Creativity Explored. The result is a ten-part series of chapbooks entitled ''Tell You What''. Lisick is married to recording engineer and producer Eli Crews. Together they have one child, Gus.

Bibliography

*''Monkey Girl'',

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(1997) *''This Too Can Be Yours'',

(2001) *''Everybody Into the Pool: True Tales'',

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(2005) *''Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone'' (2008) *''Yokohama Threeway'' (2013) *''Edie on the Green Screen'' (2020) Anthologies * ''Santa Cruz Noir'', Akashic.

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, ed. (2018) * ''Yes Is the Answer'', Rare Bird Books. Marc Weingarten, Tyson Cornell, eds. * ''The Speed Chronicles'', Akashic. Joseph Mattson, ed. (2011) * ''The Post-It Note Diaries''. Arthur Jones, illustrator.(2011) * ''Best American Poetry''. James Tate, ed. (1997)

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lisick, Beth American women short story writers American film actresses American spoken word poets Living people American short story writers 1968 births People from Saratoga, California 21st-century American poets 21st-century American actresses