Cindy Childress

Poet

Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Email:

ladyoracle1979@gmail.com

Author's Bio

I am an American expatriate living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where I am the Associate Editor for the KL American magazine and a blogger for Fringe Magazine. My critical writing appears in Feminist Media Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities, and Theory Into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism, and several encyclopedias from Greenwood Press. I served as Poet-in-Residence at the Pinellas County Girl’s Correctional Facility 2002-3 and have a Ph. D. in English with creative dissertation from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Like a Girl: A Manifesta (GirlChild Press, 2008)

Woman.Period. (, 2008)

Low Explosions: Writings on the Body (, 2007)

Di-Verse-City: The Austin International Poetry Anthology (, 2004)

Journals:

Aunt Chloe

Dispatch Litareview

Epicenter

Farmhouse Magazine

Moondance

Red Booth Review

Rock & Sling

Temenos Journal

The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

The Louisiana Review

Third Wednesday

X Magazine

Prizes won:

Marcella Siegel Memorial Poetry Award
Third Place Christina Sergeyevna Award

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

Sister Swing by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, The Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, Kampung Boy by Lat, The Fan Maker's Inquisition by Rikki Ducornet

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

European American

Prefers to work with:

At Risk Youth, Illness/Wellness, Teachers

Fluent in:

English

Raised in:

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Last update: Jun 12, 2011