Olga Garcia Echeverria
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, Writer, & Professional Circus Juggler |
| Location | Los Angeles, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Babbling barrio bilingual, bisexual, borderline atheist. Author of Falling Angels: Cuentos y Poemas. Daughter of immigrant parents. Mother of none. Sister to the omnipotent sea. |
| Interests | Food, Art, Nature, Language, and Sex-changing lizards. |
| Favorite Movies | Before the Dinosaurs |
| Favorite Music | That which makes me feel alive and present. |
| Favorite Books | The Metamorphosis, Frankenstein, Lorca's plays, The Open Veins of Latin America, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Grapes of Wrath, Odes to Common Things, From Eve's Rib, Ghost Sickness. |
That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?
I actually identify pretty strongly with fish, especially the ones that change sexes. Not only am I constantly drawn to bodies of water, I believe our ancestors were once ambitious fish who grew feet to crawl out of oceans and walk on land. So am I standing on a fish? Definitely.