Pilar Christiana Graham, M.F.A.
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| Gender | Female |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer/Teacher |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | Pilar Graham is a poet and creative nonfiction writer. Pilar’s poems and nonfiction have appeared in several journals, such as In the Grove, San Joaquin Review, Sundog, Blackberry, and Poetry Midwest. In addition, Pilar has served as a poetry editor for several literary journals, and has participated as a judge for local and national events. Pilar has a M.F.A. degree in creative writing from CSU Fresno, teaches in the Humanities division at Fresno City College and California State University, Monterey Bay in California. You can find her in nature (collecting new poems), typically wearing her stilettos. |
| Interests | Theory. Beauty. Love. Desire. |
| Favorite books | Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York, NY: Perennial Classics, 1974 Knopp, Lisa. The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays. University of Nebraska: Bison Books, 2002 Luntz, Frank. Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear. New York, NY:Hyperion, 2007 Meloy, Ellen. The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2002 O’Reilley, Mary Rose. The Love of Impermanent Things: Threshold Ecology. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2006 Pipher, Mary. Writing to Change the World: An Inspiring Guide for Transforming the World with Words.New York, NY, 2006 Root, Robert. Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place. University of Nebraska Press: Bison Books, 2007 Root, Robert, and Michael Steinberg. Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. Pearson Education, Inc., 2005 Williford, Lex, and Michael Martone. Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work From 1070 to the Present. New York, NY: Touchstone, 2007 |