NEW! Shoulds are for Saints: the true life adventures of Suzy Le Speed, and Dance First …ask questions later: poems & paintings. Visit the Bookshelf for details.
A long-time swimmer and body surfer, Shé single-handed a 37-foot sailboat for two years after only a few lessons on other boats. Before that, she towed a silver and yellow teardrop travel trailer across the continental United States — solo, in her fifties — searching for surf.
She first captured national attention in her twenties as the pink-sweatered-sweetie-turned-werewolf in Howling V: the Rebirth. Ten years later, she leaped back into the conversation with her essay, “Free Love Ain’t,” in the Seal Press anthology, Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture.
A veteran performer with eight films and countless theatrical pieces to her credit, Shé hosted The Literary Lounge (a radio program and live events), founded the Kamilche Guerrilla Girls Poetry Collective, and launched a Seattle Poetry Festival with “Separate: a poetry flotilla.” She was awarded residencies at Caldera, Bear Lodge/Devils Tower, and Richard Hugo House.
Sea Change: stories & splashes will be out later this year, along with her novella, Letters to Lulu. Slated for 2027: Diary of a Reluctant Traveler: 15 months on the road from coast to coast to coast. Her work has been published by Blue Flower Books, Witcraft, Running Wild Press, Vox Populi, Chiasmus Press, The Passionfruit Review, Letter X, Fishlines, and Evergreen Magazine.
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