Creative Cusp Guest Writers
Abbie Berry |
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Abbie earned her Masters in Fine Arts from San Diego State University. She has called San Diego home for the past 16 years and has lived in Southern California her entire life. She has been published in Two Girls Review and Red. Abbie will encourage you to find your characters where you’d least expect them to be: in someone else’s words. A writer’s voice is always under construction. As writers we are always rebuilding. |
Billy Hughes |
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Billy Hughes has taught creative writing and literature courses at San Diego State University.Billy dabbles in surfboard shaping, and his work has appeared in Pennsylvania English, The Surfer’s Journal, and on WebDelSol. |
Joe Kane |
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Joseph Kane has taught introductory literature and introductory creative writing at SDSU. Joe received his MFA from San Diego State University in fiction. His graduate project, Pictures of Women with Heavenly Breasts is a cycle of inter-linked short fiction pieces prmarily featuring his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.He is currently seeking publication abroad and is at work on a second work of collected fiction, An Alcoholic’s Field Guide to America’s Valley of Perpetual Summer. Before coming to San Diego, he studied at Bowling Green in Northwestern Ohio where he worked on the staff at Mid-American Review. Other literary magazines Joe has worked for are Fiction International and Pacific Review. His short story ‘In the Humm Line’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2007. |
Rosetta Lynch |
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Rosetta Lynch is a writer and a poet. She has been a featured guest at SDSU’s Hugh C Hyde’s Living Writer’s Series and on San Diego’s famed jazz station, KSDS. She is also the creator and editor of Life on Sugarberry, a lifestyle blog covering music, fashion, food and culture. Rosetta is currently working on a collection of short stories titled I Break Everything. |
Jenny Minniti-Shippey |
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Jenny completed her MFA degree in poetry at San Diego State University. She’s been a bit itinerant in the past, but has been happily rooted in San Diego for the past five years. She has work published in Tar River Poetry, In Posse Review, and the Web Del Sol Review of Books. Jenny firmly believes that while good writers borrow, great writers steal, and she looks forward to helping you hone your skills as a thief of words, lock-picker of language, and super-spy on the secret lives of the people around you. Her chapbook, Done Dating DJs, won the 2009 Fool For Poetry Chapbook Competition, sponsored by the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland. |
Jon Oropeza |
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Jon is a writer, mentor, teacher and entrepreneur. When he’s not writing, he’s helping business owners plan, execute and stay afloat in the economy’s choppy waters. Jon lived and wrote in San Diego for over 10 years. These days he lives in Portland, OR, where he mutters curses at the rain and dreams of his next Southwest flight to San Diego. |
Deniz Perin |
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Deniz Perin is a writer, translator, and teacher living in San Diego. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University in 2007. Her translation, from the Turkish, of Ece Temelkuran’s poetry collection, Book of the Edge, is due out with BOA Editions was published in 2010. Her work has been published in several journals including Runes, The Atlanta Review, and Golden Handcuffs, and she is working on getting her first poetry collection published. Having taught creative writing at SDSU, she now teaches literature at the University of San Diego. She thinks we, as writers, should take advantage of the wonderful opportunity we have, of living in such a beautiful border city. |
Bobby Shaddox |
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Bobby Shaddox earned his Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University. He teaches sixth grade here in San Diego. Bobby is currently the frontman for the band Bobby Fantasy and the rockin’ drummer for Billy Midnight. He has been a member of multiple San Diego bands and was performing in bars before he was legal.
“I don’t like most of what I hear on the radio these days. Songs are all about sadness and loss and they don’t make you want to get up and dance. I write songs and I don’t take myself too seriously – and people – people dance!” Bobby’s music helps you to lose yourself for a little while. He is a teacher, mentor, musician, artist, writer, boyfriend, uncle, friend and all around performer for the people. |
Heather Sweeney |
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Heather Sweeney gratefully teaches and writes in San Diego. After receiving an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University, she has since been finding her way West across the country. Her work has been featured in POM2, canwehaveourballback?, Shampoo, Cutbank and Dusie. The methods she uses invite self-exploration, chance, juxtaposition and other unexpected connections. |