Dixie Salazar
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Dixie Salazar also
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Dixie Salazar is a familiar
figure in the Fresno arts scene. She works as a painter, poet, photographer, and
novelist. She received B.A. degrees in both English and Art from California
State University, Fresno. She received her MFA degree in creative writing
from Columbia University in New York. Ms. Salazar has worked as a
courtroom artist, art therapist, teacher at a juvenile detention center,
parenting teacher at the Fresno County Jail, and poetry teacher at Corcoran
State Prison. She currently teaches creative writing at Valley State Prison
for Women, and writing and literature at Fresno State. Her first book of poetry, Hotel Fresno, was published by Blue Moon Press in 1988, followed by Reincarnation of the Commonplace, which won the National Poetry Contest and was published by Salmon Run Press in 1998. Her novel, Limbo, was published by White Pine Press in 1995. Her new book of poems, Blood Mysteries, has just appeared from University of Arizona Press. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, The Black Warrior Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. |
