Who is this girl?

I was born and raised in Las Vegas. It's great weather.

I own a bar with my brother called Noreen's. It was our father's bar that he bought in 1987, and bro and I took over when Dad passed away in 2001. I've been behind Dad's bar since I was about 4 years old, making Shirley Temples, and I occasionally stunt bartend.

In my past lives I worked at a Family Fun Center where I was a ticket taker, skate guard, arcade tech, and runner of go-carts and bumper boats; I sold candy; I was a rat lady scaring people off the backs of trucks on a haunted hayride; I've done stats for UNLV basketball, and worked the Mountain West Tournament for a couple of years; I was in a band; I read Tarot cards and palms.

I've been writing since I was a kid, but I didn't write regularly until I was 14. I really didn't get serious about it until the end of high school. I try to write something everyday, whether it's a line on a poem, one of my fiction projects, or just general blogging.

If I were to have a writing resume, this is what it would look like:


2000:
• Graduated from University of Redlands with degree in The Poetry of Belief: Writing and Religion: Creative Writing with a minor in Religious Studies, studying under Patricia Geary and Tim Powers

2001-2002:
• Wrote for the A&E section of Las Vegas CityLife doing CD/concert reviews and local music news
• Participated in the 48 Hour Movie Project -- writing, acting, co-producing, co-editing, and music for "The Case of the Lactose Intolerant Pop Star"

2003:
• Member of 2003 Las Vegas Poetry Slam Team that went to Chicago
• Opened up for Def Poet Big Poppa E

2004:
• Organizer of the '04 slam season
• Opened up for New York Times Bestselling author Beth Lisick
• West coast Las Vegas Poetry Circus tour with Andy Hall and Keith Haubrich

2005:
• Placed second at Grand Slam, member of the '05 team
• Organizer of '05 season
• Host of Poets Anonymous at Café Hookah
• Opened for KRS-One in L.A.
• Head of screenwriting workshop at B&N
• Entertainment Content Manager for HollyWagers.com
• Winner of Best Female Poet, Best Slam Poet, and Best Slam Piece in the 2005 LasVegasPoets.org Awards>

2006:
• Placed third at Grand Slam, member of the '06 team
• Organizer of '06 season
• Winner of Best Political Poem and Inducted into the LasVegasPoets.org Hall of Fame in the LasVegasPoets.org Awards

2007:
• Coach for the '07 slam team
• Participant in the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Workshop

2008:
• Founded Seldom Seen Poets reading

2009:
• Published in the anthology Last Drink Bird Head

2010:
• Organizer of '10-'11 slam season

2011:
• Coach of the 2011 slam team
• Winner of the Susan G. Komen For The Cure Southern Nevada Poetry Contest

Has performed all over the US, Canada, and England