Empowering Women Of Spoken Word

Larissa Shmailo is a poet and a translator. Larissa is the recipient of 2009 People's Choice awards for spoken word with rock, jazz, and electronica from New Century Music, and has received excellent critical notices from the Daily News , Time Out Magazine , and the Village Voice . Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's first Next Wave Festival; a DVD of the original English-language production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Larissa's poetry CDs, The No-Net World (SongCrew 2006) and Exorcism (SongCrew 2008), are available from www.cdbaby.com; Larissa's chapbook, A Cure for Suicide, is available from Cervena Barva Press. Please visit Larissa at www.myspace.com/thenonetworld Melanie C. Jordan is an Author/Reporter/President for Imagine Magazine. She is a journalist who researches and gathers information in a variety of ways, including tips, press releases, sources (those with newsworthy information) and witnessing events. She performs research through interviews, public records, and other sources. The information-gathering part of the job is sometimes called "reporting" as distinct from the production part of the job, such as writing articles. www.soulfulpen.com