Julene T Weaver

Julene Tripp Weaver writes poetry, prose poems, creative non fiction and experiments with a variety of forms. When she went back to school for her BA in Creative Writing she studied with Audre Lorde, Louse DeSalvo and Joan Larkin at the City University of New York. Her third book, truth be bold—Serenading Life & Death in the Age of AIDS (Finishing Line Press, 2017) comes out of her 18 years doing AIDS services and being a long term survivor. Since 1988, she has practiced Continuum Movement. She ran Muse To Write Circles for ten years integrating movement to evoke body-centered writing; she considers this part of the Transformation Language Arts Movement. For two years she ran her workshops at Seattle's Cancer Life Line. She moved to Seattle in 1989 where she enrolled at The Leadership Institute of Seattle, an experiential self-assessment program. Her Masters in Applied Behavioral Science is based in Family of Origin theory. Since then, she has worked in HIV/AIDS Services. A bulk of her writing stems from this work. She has created two spoken word performance pieces: "The Wailing Wall," which focuses on her work with AIDS, and "Spin the Bottle," which focuses on her writing about women's sexuality. Both these pieces use her words, experimental voicing, and Continuum Movement. In 2002 she began her study with Tom Spanbauer and his trademarked Dangerous Writing in Portland, Oregon; this inspired her to write fiction. She is now writing condensed and flash creative non fiction pieces.