 photo: Rick Loomis, LATimes  2008 edition with new study guide and afterword bringing book up-to-date to Iraq war  5 essays on performances and storytelling, based on my experiences as a performer and critic.  Ukrainian Egg Cup Woman from L'viv, an image from my new work THROUGH THE CROOKED MIRROR: My Conversation with Poland .jpg) LS interviewing poet Robert Creeley as part of ALOUD at Central Library series photo: Gary Leonard  With my husband Lloyd and our sponsored child-- Alfonso Luis Jiminez-- up in the Guatemalan-Chiapas borderlands with Adopt-a-Village photo: Frances Dixon |
Author BioLouise Steinman is a writer and literary curator. Her work frequently deals with memory, history and reconciliation. Her book, The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War was cited as “A graceful, understated memoir… that draws its strength from the complexities it explores.” (New York Times Book Review) and “…an intimate and powerful story of the effects of war.” (James Bradley, author, Flags of Our Fathers). The book won the 2002 Gold Medal in Autobiography/Her first book, The Knowing Body: The Artist As Storyteller in Contemporary Performance (North Atlantic Books)—was hailed by the L.A. Times as a “dazzling study of the performing arts.” The Knowing Body is based on two decades of Louise’s experience as a performer/ She is currently completing a book titled Through the Crooked Mirror: My Conversation with Poland. Her essays and feature articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, New York Times Syndicate, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, Salon.com, Washington Post and other publications. Her features include profiles of Zen rabbis, elevator operators, artists, memoirists, combat veterans, translators, filmmakers, and an innovator in deaf education. “Ordinary bodhisattvas,” she calls them. She has curated the award-winning ALOUD at Central Library series for the Los Angeles Public Library. (www.aloudla.org) for the past fifteen years and is also co-director of the Los Angeles Institute of the Humanities at USC. She was Senior Creative Advisor for the Sundance Institute Arts Writing Program and she is an active member of PEN Center USA West. She lives in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles with her husband, sculptor Lloyd Hamrol and two persnickety cats—Oona and Fredo. |
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