Tawni Vee Waters
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer/ Actress |
| Location | Phoenix, Arizona |
| Introduction | Tawni Vee Waters is a writer, actor, and gypsy. Her first novel, Beauty of the Broken, is being released by Simon and Schuster on August 26, 2014. Her first poetry book, Siren Song, is being released by Burlesque Press in Summer 2014. She has an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of New Orleans. Her work has been published in Best Travel Writing 2010, Bridal Guide Magazine, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Albuquerque Journal, Blood Lotus, Albion Review, ABQ Arts Magazine,So To Speak, and Conceptions Southwest, among others. She is a regular contributor to Burlesque Press and was a regular contributor Albuquerque’s East Mountain Telegraph. In 2010, she won the Grand Prize in the Solas Awards Travel Writing Competition. In 2009, she won the Editor’s Award for Fiction from Ellipses Magazine. She teaches creative writing at Estrella Mountain College. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her children and a menagerie of wayward animals. In her spare time, she talks to angels, humanely evicts spiders from her floorboards, and plays Magdalene to a minor rock god. |
| Interests | Writing, traveling, acting, rock climbing, dancing, movies, plays, live music, great books, art, history, poetry, running, blowing bubbles, gathering wildflowers, kissing, swingsets, waterfalls, dreaming, sliding on icy ponds, hand jives, magic, roller coaster rides, itinerant preachers, beaches, sand between toes, Sistine Chapels, chipped teeth, mysterious basements, spider monkeys, otterpops, insomnia cures, Elvis sightings, biceps, fluorescent mosses, ancient ruins, fingerpaints, lips, laughing children, root beer floats, dandelion wishes, travelers from distant lands, shooting stars, kartwheels, sweaty throats, acoustic guitars, fortune cookies, clouds that look like pirate ships, existential discussions, snowflake eating, balloons, parking lot parties, eyes that are alive, pirates, rare and wonderful bootlegs, shaded lawns, long island iced teas, airplanes, red rocks, memories, futures, presents, fairies, oceans, love, freedom, all things amazing and beautiful, some things moderately compelling, and toe socks. I really like toe socks. Mine have frogs on them. |