Linda Ravenswood
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Linda Ravenswood is an artist
, writer
and vocalist who currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
and lived in Europe throughout the 1980s. In 1993 she moved to Ireland with her husband, the songwriter and music interpreter/musicologist Garrison White, to write. Her poetry has appeared in print journals, magazines and online in Underground Voices Magazine
(Los Angeles), The Wilshire Review Volume 1 (Los Angeles), The Wilshire Review Volume 2 (Los Angeles), Enigma Magazine (London), Audemus formerly Mount Voices (Los Angeles), Poetry Salzburg Review
(University of Salzburg Press), The Bicycle Review (Los Angeles), Flaming Arrows (Ireland), Break the Silence Magazine (US), Relief Magazine (US), Poetry Magazine (US), BlazeVOX (US), Rivets Literary Magazine (US), Caterwaul Quarterly (US), The Hamilton Stone Review, (US) Unlikely Stories (US), Lines and Stars (US), ReadThis (University of Montana Press) and on PBS.
In 2010 her story No Impact Organ was featured on Colin Beavan's No Impact Man
website.
Ravenswood has appeared in live poetry performance with Shane McGowan, Jeffrey McDaniel
, Eloise Klein Healy
, S.A. Griffin and Viggo Mortensen
among others and in live musical performance with Azam Ali
. She has been featured at classic Los Angeles
venues Café Largo, Molly Malone’s, LuLu’s Alibi, Highland Grounds, 8121 Club, and Al’s Bar. She has worked with Rafael F.J. Alvarado on the Moe Green Poetry Hour, on the World Wide Radio Network. Her recent work is also shown at Craftswoman House, a repurposed Pasadena
craftsman house dedicated to showcasing contemporary performance art and new media.
She holds a BFA (Music, Theatre, Fine Art) from The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MA (Humanities; Emphasis in Creative Writing) from Mount Saint Mary's College
. She has lived extensively in the US, Ireland and the UK. She is presently in Los Angeles
pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing.
Ravenswood studied at the University of California
, Los Angeles
, and is a triple graduate of The California Institute of the Arts in Art, Music and Theatre (2000) . She studied at several other academies worldwide, including Mount Saint Mary's College
in Los Angeles
, focusing on Creative Writing and Performance where she received an MA (Humanities) in 2009 . She was awarded the Mary Griffin Award in 2008 and 2009.
She partnered with musician/designer Stan Hillas Jones in 1997 to make new music/new media, and reunited with him again in 2005. Their album Songs from the Future was released in 2006 on Reseda Sound Records. She has also worked with Grammy nominated musician Noa Winter (Daniel) Lazerus, arranger/producer for Laurie Anderson
and Tom Waits
, on various projects for PBS and for independent filmmakers, including John Banks IV for Ritual Paths.
Ravenswood has produced five cover art pieces for London based Enigma Magazine and drawings which have appeared notably in The Wilshire Review (Volumes One and Two). Her most recent fine art exhibit was at The Pico House Gallery and historic landmark in downtown Los Angeles (2010). New work is shown at The Jose Vera Gallery in a group show and Benefit for Haiti (2011). Her recent work includes performances at the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (Los Angeles
2011), SoundWalk, and The Ventura County Arts Festival. Recent artwork can been seen on the 2011 Tour da Arts poster for the Santa Monica Museum of Art
, Santa Monica
(2011).
Her new book, Hymnal, is forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press in the spring of 2011.
She currently is on staff at Occidental College
, in Los Angeles
.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
and vocalist who currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Biography
Linda Ravenswood was born in Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and lived in Europe throughout the 1980s. In 1993 she moved to Ireland with her husband, the songwriter and music interpreter/musicologist Garrison White, to write. Her poetry has appeared in print journals, magazines and online in Underground Voices Magazine
Underground Voices Magazine
Underground Voices is an American literary magazine created in 2004. Based in Los Angeles, Underground Voices caters to edgy, raw, dark fiction, flash fiction, and poetry. The magazine also publishes the works of visual artists...
(Los Angeles), The Wilshire Review Volume 1 (Los Angeles), The Wilshire Review Volume 2 (Los Angeles), Enigma Magazine (London), Audemus formerly Mount Voices (Los Angeles), Poetry Salzburg Review
Poetry Salzburg Review
Poetry Salzburg Review is an English language, biannual literary magazine published by Poetry Salzburg at the University of Salzburg and edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and Andreas Schachermayr. It is a successor to The Poet's Voice which was edited and published in Austria by British poets Fred...
(University of Salzburg Press), The Bicycle Review (Los Angeles), Flaming Arrows (Ireland), Break the Silence Magazine (US), Relief Magazine (US), Poetry Magazine (US), BlazeVOX (US), Rivets Literary Magazine (US), Caterwaul Quarterly (US), The Hamilton Stone Review, (US) Unlikely Stories (US), Lines and Stars (US), ReadThis (University of Montana Press) and on PBS.
In 2010 her story No Impact Organ was featured on Colin Beavan's No Impact Man
No Impact Man
No Impact Man is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein. The film, which premiered September 4, 2009, follows Colin Beavan and his family during their year-long experiment to have sustainable zero impact on the environment.-See also:* Appropriate technology*...
website.
Ravenswood has appeared in live poetry performance with Shane McGowan, Jeffrey McDaniel
Jeffrey McDaniel
Jeffrey McDaniel is an American poet. He has published four books of poetry, most recently 'The Endarkenment' . He is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts...
, Eloise Klein Healy
Eloise Klein Healy
Eloise Klein Healy is an American poet. She has published five books of poetry and a chapbook. Her collection of poems, Passing, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Poetry and the Audre Lorde Lesbian Poetry Prize from The Publishing Triangle...
, S.A. Griffin and Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner , Carlito's Way , Crimson Tide , Daylight , The...
among others and in live musical performance with Azam Ali
Azam Ali
-Biography:Born in Tehran, Iran 1970, Ali spent most of her childhood in Panchgani, India. Ali and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California in 1985, after which Ali discovered the santour...
. She has been featured at classic Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
venues Café Largo, Molly Malone’s, LuLu’s Alibi, Highland Grounds, 8121 Club, and Al’s Bar. She has worked with Rafael F.J. Alvarado on the Moe Green Poetry Hour, on the World Wide Radio Network. Her recent work is also shown at Craftswoman House, a repurposed Pasadena
Pasadena
-Places:Places in Australia:*Pasadena, South Australia, a suburb of AdelaidePlaces in Canada:*Pasadena, NewfoundlandPlaces in the United States:*Pasadena, California*South Pasadena, California*South Pasadena, Florida*Pasadena, Maryland...
craftsman house dedicated to showcasing contemporary performance art and new media.
She holds a BFA (Music, Theatre, Fine Art) from The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MA (Humanities; Emphasis in Creative Writing) from Mount Saint Mary's College
Mount Saint Mary's College
Mount Saint Mary's College may mean:* Mount St Mary's College, Sheffield, England, UK* Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California, USASee also:* Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York, USA...
. She has lived extensively in the US, Ireland and the UK. She is presently in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
pursuing her PhD in Creative Writing.
Ravenswood studied at the University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, and is a triple graduate of The California Institute of the Arts in Art, Music and Theatre (2000) . She studied at several other academies worldwide, including Mount Saint Mary's College
Mount Saint Mary's College
Mount Saint Mary's College may mean:* Mount St Mary's College, Sheffield, England, UK* Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, California, USASee also:* Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York, USA...
in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
, focusing on Creative Writing and Performance where she received an MA (Humanities) in 2009 . She was awarded the Mary Griffin Award in 2008 and 2009.
She partnered with musician/designer Stan Hillas Jones in 1997 to make new music/new media, and reunited with him again in 2005. Their album Songs from the Future was released in 2006 on Reseda Sound Records. She has also worked with Grammy nominated musician Noa Winter (Daniel) Lazerus, arranger/producer for Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson
Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson is an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s...
and Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
, on various projects for PBS and for independent filmmakers, including John Banks IV for Ritual Paths.
Ravenswood has produced five cover art pieces for London based Enigma Magazine and drawings which have appeared notably in The Wilshire Review (Volumes One and Two). Her most recent fine art exhibit was at The Pico House Gallery and historic landmark in downtown Los Angeles (2010). New work is shown at The Jose Vera Gallery in a group show and Benefit for Haiti (2011). Her recent work includes performances at the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
2011), SoundWalk, and The Ventura County Arts Festival. Recent artwork can been seen on the 2011 Tour da Arts poster for the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Santa Monica Museum of Art is an independent non-collecting art museum located in Santa Monica, California. It exhibits the work of local, national, and international contemporary artists....
, Santa Monica
Santa Mônica
Santa Mônica is a town and municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.-References:...
(2011).
Her new book, Hymnal, is forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press in the spring of 2011.
She currently is on staff at Occidental College
Occidental College
Occidental College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1887, Occidental College, or "Oxy" as it is called by students and alumni, is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges on the West Coast...
, in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
.