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  <name><![CDATA[Kaya Oakes]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Kaya Oakes' nonfiction book, &lt;i&gt;Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture&lt;/i&gt;, was published by Henry Holt in 2009. Her collection of poetry, &lt;i&gt;Telegraph&lt;/i&gt;, received the Transcontinental Poetry Prize from Pavement Saw Press in 2007. She has twice been a Pushcart nominee for nonfiction and has been the recipient of grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Mellon Foundation, and the Bay Area Writing Project. Born and raised in Oakland, California, she teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the senior editor of Kitchen Sink Magazine for five years.  
 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6653755.html?industryid=47159&quot;&gt;
Publisher's Weekly&lt;/a&gt; review of Slanted and Enchanted.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6651687.html&quot;&gt;Library Journal&lt;/a&gt; review of Slanted and Enchanted. 

A review of Telegraph in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2007winter/oakes.shtml&quot;&gt;Rain Taxi&lt;/a&gt;



Find some of my work online:

&lt;a href=&quot;http://coconutpoetry.org/oakes1.htm&quot;&gt;Coconut&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://mtd.celaine.com/kayaoakes.htm&quot;&gt;Melancholia's Tremulous Dreadlocks&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mipoesias.com/Poetry/oakes_kaya.html&quot;&gt;MiPoesias&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentytwo/oakes.html&quot;&gt;Shampoo&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/winter2004/current/Olympia.html&quot;&gt;Nidus&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://sawbuckpoetry.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Sawbuck&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://brokennarative.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;Eucalyptus, Vol. 2&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.versedaily.org/2007/mule.shtml&quot;&gt;Verse Daily&lt;/a&gt;

Podcasts of some recent readings:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://andrewkenower.typepad.com/a_voice_box/2007/05/kaya_oakes_pega.html&quot;&gt;Pegasus Books, Berkeley&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://miporeadingseries2007.blogspot.com/2007/06/kaya-oakes-reading-may-25-2007.html&quot;&gt; MiPoesias series, Stain Bar, Brooklyn&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kqed.org/arts/writersblock/episode.jsp?id=5945&quot;&gt;The Writer's Block, KQED&lt;/a&gt;








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      <name><![CDATA[Monique Montibon]]></name>
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