Theresa is a poet, and host of two popular poetry venues in the LA area: Mudpuppy Poetry, originally started in Highland Park at the Mudpuppy coffee house, and Projectile Poetry at Dutton’s Books in Brentwood. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as Looking out of Alhambra, Looking out of Pasadena, and various San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterlies, along with the Poetry and Cookies series through the Alta Dena Library. As a contributing editor, her poetry has appeared on PoeticDiversity, and in various anthologies as a member of the Emerging Urban Poets, and the Echo Space Poetry Collective. She is also editor and one of the directors of the Valley Contemporary Poets- bringing new voices to the San Fernando Valley. As a small press publisher, she has put out a number of her own anthologies series, chapbooks and has appeared on various television and radio programs featuring her poetry, as well as being asked to perform her one woman show. Known for writing about family in her prose, storytelling style, she has been featured at most all the venues in Los Angeles, asked to perform at book fairs, art openings, and has toured as part of a poetry troupe…but her dream came true when she was asked to feature at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA…more than once. She is also an art therapist, with a M.A. in a psychology related field- working with and writing about cancer survivors and the incarcerated. From her work as a photographer/filmmaker and working with “at risk” youth as a grant recipient and “artist in residence” she is completing a documentary on kids and creativity.