Janet OShea In Conversation With Xochitl- Julisa Bermejo Jan 11 2019
b'Janet O\'Shea is Professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Author of \'RISK, FAILURE, PLAY\', \'At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage\' and the co-editor of the \'Routledge Dance Studies Reader\', 2nd edition, her research focuses on corporeality, interdisciplinary exchange, and the politics of everyday life. She is a practitioner of Filipino martial arts, jeet kune do, Brazilian jiu jitsu, kickboxing, and empowerment self-defense.\\n\\nXochitl-Julisa Bermejo is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and the author of \'Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge\' (Sundress Publications 2016). A former Steinbeck Fellow, Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange winner, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grantee, she\\u2019s received residencies from Hedgebrook, Ragdale, National Parks Arts Foundation and Poetry Foundation and is a member of Macondo Writers\\u2019 Workshop. Her work is published in Acentos Review, CALYX, crazyhorse, and American Poetry Review among others. A dramatization of her poem "Our Lady of the Water Gallons," directed by Jes\\xfas Salvador Trevi\\xf1o, can be viewed at latinopia.com. She hosts the quarterly reading series HITCHED and is a cofounder of Women Who Submit.'