andrea lambert

Education

• M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Critical Studies, 2008
• B.A., Reed College, Portland, OR, English, 1998

Academic Appointments

• Teaching Assistant, CalArts, 2007-2008
• ESL Tutor, CalArts, 2006-2007

Curatorial Experience

• Curator, Featherless Reading Series, Wordspace / Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, 2010-2012

Publications

Books:

• Jet Set Desolate, Future Fiction London, 2009
• Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin: Extrapolations on Los Angeles / 730910-2155, valeveil press, 2009

Chapbooks:

• G(u)ilt, 2011

Anthologies:

• “Chapter Three: Runway – Road – Room,” Tomorrow’s Literature Today, Unified Narrative Freedom Organization (forthcoming)
• “Generic Butch-Femme Poem,” Off the Rocks #16, NewTown Writers Press, 2012
• “Generic Butch-Femme Poem,” “Aalpha Pharmacy Waiting Dirge,” “The Ballad of Student Loan Default,” “Palm Alley,” The L.A. Telephone Book, 2012
  
• “SUNSET : UNFO” SUNSET.UNFO! INSTANT PUBLICATION!, Unified Narrative Freedom Organization, 2011
• “2006 May 6 : Night : Los Angeles” “I, II, III” You’ve Probably Read This Before, 2009
• “2006: May 6: Night : Los Angeles” Chronometry, 2008

Print Journals:

• “I, II, III” Sprawl Journal, 2008
• “Revita-Lift Night Cream,” Artizen, 2007
• “Jake Faithful’s Spanking for Salvation Ministry,” Reed College Small Press Collective, 1995
• “Slap Yourself,” The Bantu Chronicles, 1995

Online Journals:

• “My Experience with Detox and Outpatient Rehab,” Queer Mental Health, 2013
• “Death and the Aftermath,” Queer Mental Heath, 2013
• “Love Letter to Katie,” Loved Lettered, 2013
• “Coming to Terms with Childlessness,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “The Window at Night,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “My Experience with AA and Early Sobriety,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “Ramifications of Queer and Mental Illness Visibility,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “From Teargas to Twitter: How I Disengaged from Activism,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “Shaming my Food Stamps: EBT and SSDI,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “Bipolar Mania and the High Femme: Adventures in Sephora,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “Misrepresentation, Diversion, and Truth: Talking about SSDI,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “My Experience with Schizoaffective Disorder,” Queer Mental Health, 2012
• “Bonnie Brae, You Slut!” Ready, Able, valeveil press, 2012
• “Excerpt from Jet Set Desolate”, 3:AM Magazine, 2009
•  “What She Was Told,” Lime Tea, 2005
• “My Supplication,” Lime Tea, 2005
• “Mimosa Leers,” Lime Tea, 2004
• “The Warhooker Manifesto,” Warhookers, 2004
• “It’s About Subtlety,” Warhookers, 2004
• “Spin-the-Bottle,” Warhookers, 2004
• “Cab Driver,” Warhookers, 2004

Reviews:

• “Q.E.D. – Part 3: An Evening of Authentic Objects,” HTMLGIANT, 2012
• “Popscene: Let-Down a go-go,” Posthoc.com, 2000
• Review of Tom Waits, Mule Variations, Plazm, no 23, 1999
• “Independent Publishing Resource Center Open at Reading Frenzy,” Anodyne, Vol. 3 no 5, 1999
• “Eternal Screens: Group Show in Three Phases,” Anodyne, Vol. 3, no 4, 1999
• Review of Einstürzende Neubauten Show, Anodyne, Vol. 3. no. 4, 1999
• Review of “Talus and Scree” Literary Journal, Anodyne, Vol. 3, no 4, 1999
• “Toy Geeks Invade the AIA,” Anodyne, Vol. 3, no 3, 1998
• Review of Rara Avis, Anodyne, Vol. 3, no 2, 1998
• Review of The One Handed Pianist and Other Stories, Anodyne, Vol. 3, no 1, 1998

Readings

• Heroes and Saints at Gay May Days, Spirit Studios Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA, 2013
• Sumarr V, Temple Ad Hoc, Los Angeles, CA 2012
• homo-centric presents: Hot July Nights, Cool Queer Words, Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• International Home Theatre Festival, Jeremy Mikush’s studio, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• homo-centric gets Spring Fever, Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• OAW: One Alternate Workday Salon, Katrin Jurati’s home, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• A Valentines Day “Sad Hour”, The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• Rhapsodomancy: A Reading Series is Los Angeles, The Good Luck Bar, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• World AIDS Day Art Walk, Renberg Theatre, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza (LA Gay and Lesbian Center), West Hollywood, CA, 2011
• homo-centric at the West Hollywood Book Fair, Booth B35, West Hollywood, CA, 2011
• “The street outside of G(u)ilt” Road Concert on Sunset Blvd, The Gold Room, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
• LA Road Concerts at the 2nd New Los Angeles Folk Festival, Zorthian Ranch, Altadena, CA, 2011
• Literary Lingerie Lounge, Kate Durbin’s home, Pasadena, CA, 2011
• homo-centric: ju-ly down in the sand, Stories Books & Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
• Featherless #5, Wordspace, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
• Wordlab: Reading and Potluck, Wordspace, Los Angeles, CA, 2010  
• Lorazepam and the Valley of Skin / 730910-2155 book launch, REDCAT lounge, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
• You’ve Probably Read This Before book launch, REDCAT Lounge, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
• A Day in LA: Washington Boulevard Art Concert,  Los Angeles, CA, 2009
• Next Words: CalArts MFA Writing Showcase, REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
• Next Words: CalArts MFA Writing Showcase, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
• MFA Thesis Reading, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2008
• Feminist Writers Reading, Feminaissance Conference: Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2007
• Sprawl Reading Series, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2006-2008
• Fuck this Noise!!! Zine Release, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR, 1999
• Kevin Sampsell’s Reading Series, Umbra Penumbra, Portland, OR, 1997
• Portland Girl Convention, Portland, OR, 1996
• Cathode Ray Project, Thee O-Hell, Portland, OR, 1996
• Kasper Locher Summer Creative Scholarship Reading, Reed College, Portland, OR, 1995
• Ocho y Media Open House, Gravity Warehouse, San Diego, CA, 1995

Grants/Honors

• Kasper Locher Summer Creative Scholarship, Reed College, Portland, OR, 1995
• Reed Arts Weekend Grant, Reed College, Portland, OR, 1995

Conferences

• American Association of Writers and Writing Programs, New York, NY, 2008
• Feminaissance Conference: Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2007