Brenda TaulbeeBrenda Taulbee, a Missoula, Montana transplant, came to Portland, Oregon in 2012 with aspirations of playing international rugby. Prior to moving she studied Anthropology & Linguistics at the University of Montana. Her variety of odd jobs include burito-slinger, manager of a doggie daycare, & a very brief interlude as a roofer. To pump it up on her way to work she listens to Kimya Dawson, Regina Spektor, Ingrid Michaelson, etc. To unwind her way home she defaults to her iTunes shuffle. Brenda had her first public reading, Sept., 2012, through the Stone Soup Reading series in Portland & published her chapbook, Dances with Bears...& Other Ways to Lose a Limb, in June 2013. Her work has published in several literary print & online magazines & publications, incl. Gobshite Quarterly (completely multilingual en-face semi-annual flip book double trouble double issue), The Inflectionist Review, The Los Angeles Review, Grist, Nailed, & UnderGround Books. She has just completed an MFA writing program at SDSU, & returned to Portland, where she is working on her thesis with her cat, Murphy's Law. Her awards include the Dr. Minas Savvas Endowed Fellowship and the Sarah B. Marsh-Rebelo Scholarship for Poetry. Read More Read Less