THE “PROFESSIONAL” BIO
ZAEDRYN MEADE is a queer butch writer working for subversion and joy. She has produced two chapbooks and one CD, and her work has been included in various anthologies and literary magazines, including The Seattle Review, Monkey Bicycle, Our Truths, Benthology, Best Lesbian Erotica 2006 and 2007, and others.
She believes in social change through the recording and sharing of marginalized peoples’ unique experiences, and will someday be a teacher, after she no longer needs her nine-to-five midtown office job to pay off her massive quarterlife crisis generation debt.
There is a lot Zed would do for Jameson whiskey and Pilot V5 black pens. Originally born and raised in the rainforest of Southeast Alaska, she now lives in Brooklyn.
MISSION STATEMENT
- in progress
A WHOLE LOTTA MORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Judge for the 2007 Poetry Out Loud competition for New York State
- Also a judge for the 2007 Publishing Triangle awards in poetry
- Mentored high school girls interested in writing through the Girls Write Now program, 2005-2007
- Part of the performance group Girlstory, 2006, which included two weekends at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
- Trained to be a Teaching Artist through Community~Word Project, 2005-2006
- Studied at the Bent Writing Institute for queers in Seattle for four years
- Bachelor’s Degrees in Women Studies, focused on Social Change, and English, focused on Creative Writing, from the University of Washington in 2004
PHOTOS & VIDEO
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Or some of her “author shots”? Click here …
New! Videos from the Poetry vs Comedy Variety Hour
and the Bent Writing Institute in 2006 - watch ‘em!