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Parthenia M. Hicks [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Spoken Word Artist
Public address: 
San Jose, CA
California US
Email: 
parthenia1@mac.com
Bio: 

Parthenia M. Hicks is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Los Gatos, CA. and a freelance writer and editor with a Masters of Divinity in Kriya Yoga. She teaches privately and performs and reads poetry in the Bay Area. Her recent work is featured in Song of Los Gatos/Poems of the Gem City; The Call: An Anthology of Women’s Writing; Remembering: An Anthology of Poems; Sweet Obsession: The Art of Lynn Powers, and Local Habitations, featuring the poetry of five Bay Area Poets Laureate; and in The Red Wheelbarrow and CHEST medical journal.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Portsmouth
Raised in: 
Portsmouth, VA
Virginia
Prizes won: 

--Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowship in the Genre of the Short Story
--The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Prize --The Villa Montalvo Biennial Poetry Prize
--Two Pushcart nominations, one for poetry and one for short story

What I'm reading now: 
Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
Poems New and Colledted by Wislawa Szymborska
You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake by Anna Moschovakis
Perma Red by Earling
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Identifies as: 
Mixed-Race
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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