Jamie Asaye FitzGerald

Poet

Los Angeles, CA
California US
Email: 
diaphor@gmail.com
Website: 
jamiefitz.com

Author's Bio

Jamie Asaye FitzGerald is a Los Angeles-based poet from Hawaii. She received her BA in English with a creative writing emphasis from the University of Southern California and an MFA in poetry from San Diego State University, where she taught creative writing, literature, and composition. She also has a background as an advertising copywriter. For over a decade, she has worked for Poets & Writers, where she now directs the California office. She is a mother of two and in her spare time enjoys practicing ballet, yoga and piano.

(Photo credit: Alexis Rhone Fancher)

Education: 
San Diego State University MFA

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Shifts & Quakes in Los Angeles (Tia Chucha Press, 2016)
,
Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles & Beyond (Beyond Baroque, 2015)
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Hunger and Thirst (San Diego City Works Press, 2008)
,
Ariel XXII (Triton College, 2003)
,
One to One: Points of Contact (King County Metro Transit Poetry on Buses, 2001)
Journals:
American Poetry Review
,
Cultural Weekly
,
Literary Mama
,
LORE
,
Media Cake
,
Mom Egg Review
,
Poemeleon
,
poeticdiversity
,
Poetry Daily
,
Snow Monkey
,
Speechless the Magazine
,
Works & Days
Prizes won: 

Academy of American Poets College Prize, Edward G. Moses Poetry Prize (both, University of Southern California)

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
European American, Japanese American, Mixed-Race
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, French
Born in: 
Honolulu, HI
Hawaii
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Last update: Nov 19, 2020