Linda Ravenswood



Linda Ravenswood is an artist, writer and vocalist who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Her first book Hymnal from Mouthfeel Press was released in June 2012. Her short story The Infant Golem of Prague first published in The Bicycle Review for The Bloomsday Issue has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. The poem The peas from Hymnal received a Pushcart Prize nomination for Poetry in 2012.

Biography
Linda Ravenswood was born in Los Angeles, California of English, Irish, Czechoslovakian, Danish and other ancestry. She is a descendent of the Mayflower adventurer Steven Hopkins.

Ravenswood studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds a Bachelor of Fine ArtsBFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is a triple graduate in Art, Music and Theatre (2000). (CalArts) She studied at several other academies worldwide, including Mount Saint Mary's College in Los Angeles (focusing on Creative Writing and Performance), where she received an M.A. (Humanities) in 2009. She is presently in Los Angeles pursuing a Ph.D.

In her 20's, she lived in Ireland with her husband, the songwriter and music interpreter/musicologist Garrison White, where she continued to write. Her poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in print journals, magazines and online in Underground Voices Magazine (Los Angeles), The Wilshire Review Volume 1 (Los Angeles), The Wilshire Review Volume 2 (Los Angeles), Enigma Magazine  (London),  Audemus formerly Mount Voices (Los Angeles), Poetry Salzburg Review  (University of Salzburg Press), The Bicycle Review (Los Angeles), Flaming Arrows (Ireland), Break the Silence Magazine (US), Relief Magazine (US), Poetry Magazine (US), BlazeVOX (US), Rivets Literary Magazine (US),  Caterwaul Quarterly (US), The Hamilton Stone Review, (US) Unlikely Stories (US), Lines and Stars (US),  ReadThis (University of Montana Press) and on PBS.

In 2010 her story No Impact Organ was featured on Colin Beavan's No Impact Man website.

Ravenswood has appeared in live poetry performance with Shane McGowan, Jeffrey McDaniel, Eloise Klein Healy, S.A. Griffin, Scott Wannberg, Ellyn Maybe and Viggo Mortensen among others and in live musical performance with Azam Ali. She has been featured at classic Los Angeles venues Café Largo, Molly Malone’s, LuLu’s Alibi, Highland Grounds, 8121 Club, and Al’s Bar and Beyond Baroque. She has worked with Rafael F.J. Alvarado on the Moe Green Poetry Hour, on the World Wide Radio Network. Her recent work is also shown at Craftswoman House, a repurposed Pasadena craftsman house dedicated to showcasing contemporary performance art and new media.

She partnered with musician/designer Stan Hillas Jones in 1997 to make new music/new media, and reunited with him again in 2005. Their album Songs from the Future was released in 2006 on Reseda Sound Records. She has also worked with Grammy nominated musician Noa Winter (Daniel) Lazerus, arranger/producer for Laurie Anderson and Tom Waits, on various projects for PBS and for independent filmmakers, including John Banks IV for Ritual Paths.

Ravenswood has produced five cover art pieces for London based Enigma Magazine and drawings which have appeared notably in The Wilshire Review (Volumes One and Two). Her most recent fine art exhibit was at The Pico House Gallery and historic landmark in downtown Los Angeles (2010). New work is shown at The Jose Vera Gallery in the group show and Benefit for Haiti (2011). Her recent work includes performances at the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (Los Angeles 2011), SoundWalk, and The Ventura County Arts Festival, Pacific Standard Time, The Arroyo Arts Collective. Recent artwork can been seen on the 2011 Tour da Arts poster for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (2011).

Her new book, Hymnal, is published by Mouthfeel Press 2012.

She currently is on staff at Occidental College, in Los Angeles.

Recognition
She was awarded the Hannon Grant and the Mary Griffin Award in 2008 and 2009.

External lins

 * Underground Voices.com, February 26, 2010
 * Enigma Magazine, January 1, 2010
 * Audemus, Mount Voices, February 25, 2010
 * Poetry Salzburg Review, University of Salzburg, March 2, 2010
 * Opium Magazine.com, March 6, 2010
 * Emory University, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library,. December 27, 2009
 * ReadThis,MontanaStateUniversity’sLiteratureandArtsPublication, February 9, 2010
 * Worldwide Radio Network.com, March 4, 2010.
 * Enigma Magazine, 1 January 2010
 * artsandpopularculture.com, February 5, 2010
 * theravenswoodjones.com, March 7, 2010
 * noawinterlazerus.com, 18 January 2010
 * departments.oxy.net, March 1, 2010
 * www.oxyweekly.com, March 8, 2010
 * Break the Silence Project, 22 March 2010
 * Relief Magazine, March 22, 2010
 * Poetry Magazine
 * Caterwaul Quarterly
 * Rivets Literary Magazine
 * BlazeVOX [books]
 * Unlikely Stories
 * Lines and Stars
 * The Hamilton Stone Review
 * No Impact Man
 * The Bicycle Review
 * textile nirvana
 * Daily du jour
 * Art Slant
 * The Jose Vera
 * Mouthfeel Press
 * Japanese American National Museum to Host 2nd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival,” Nichi Bei Times, May 21–27, 2009, p. 10.
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 * The Arroyo Arts