Guest Authors
Hélène Cardona and John FitzGerald - Poets & Authors - Twenty Five & Breeze Rider
Hélène Cardona is a citizen of the United States, France and Spain, she is a poet, actor, translator and teacher. She attended Hamilton College, New York, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, Paris, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James for her Master’s in American Literature. She writes and translates in English, French and Spanish and is also fluent in German, Italian and Greek.
She worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy and the French Chamber of Commerce and taught at the Ecole Bilingue (Paris) and LMU (Los Angeles).
She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Life in Suspension (forthcoming Tupelo Press), and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006).
Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Mythic Passages, The American Center for Artists, Barnwood Mag, Askew, Spillway, Mediterranean Poetry, qarrtsiluni, Pirene’s Fountain, Maintenant 5: a Dada Poetry Journal, From the Fishouse, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Poetry International, and in the anthology Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry, 2011).
Hélène translated the Lawrence Bridges film Muse of Fire for the NEA, What We Carry by Dorianne Laux, and the poetry of her father José Manuel Cardona, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand and Jean-Claude Renard into English.
http://www.helenecardona.com
John FitzGerald is a poet, writer, editor and attorney in Los Angeles. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, he attended UCLA and the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review.
His first book, Spring Water, was a Turning Point Books prize selection in 2005. Telling Time by the Shadows was released in April 2008 by Turning Point Books.
His newest collection of poetry, The Mind, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. As yet unpublished works include Primate, a novel and screenplay, the non fiction The People of the Net, and the poetry collection Favorite Bedtime Stories, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2014. (The Mind on Amazon link.)
He has contributed to the anthologies Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011). His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in literary magazines worldwide.
John has worked as the Associate Book Editor for Cider Press Review. He has been featured poetry reader at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the West Hollywood Book Fair, on national radio and at many literary venues throughout the country.
She worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy and the French Chamber of Commerce and taught at the Ecole Bilingue (Paris) and LMU (Los Angeles).
She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry, 2013), Life in Suspension (forthcoming Tupelo Press), and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006).
Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Mythic Passages, The American Center for Artists, Barnwood Mag, Askew, Spillway, Mediterranean Poetry, qarrtsiluni, Pirene’s Fountain, Maintenant 5: a Dada Poetry Journal, From the Fishouse, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Poetry International, and in the anthology Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry, 2011).
Hélène translated the Lawrence Bridges film Muse of Fire for the NEA, What We Carry by Dorianne Laux, and the poetry of her father José Manuel Cardona, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Aloysius Bertrand and Jean-Claude Renard into English.
http://www.helenecardona.com
John FitzGerald is a poet, writer, editor and attorney in Los Angeles. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, he attended UCLA and the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he was editor of the Law Review.
His first book, Spring Water, was a Turning Point Books prize selection in 2005. Telling Time by the Shadows was released in April 2008 by Turning Point Books.
His newest collection of poetry, The Mind, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2011. As yet unpublished works include Primate, a novel and screenplay, the non fiction The People of the Net, and the poetry collection Favorite Bedtime Stories, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry in 2014. (The Mind on Amazon link.)
He has contributed to the anthologies Poetry: Reading it, Writing it, Publishing it (Salmon Poetry, 2009) and Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry, 2011). His poetry and non-fiction have appeared in literary magazines worldwide.
John has worked as the Associate Book Editor for Cider Press Review. He has been featured poetry reader at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the West Hollywood Book Fair, on national radio and at many literary venues throughout the country.