My writing and my life are experimental, pushing beyond the boundaries of what is normally thought of ordinary humanity. I like to incorporate the other dimensions and the intertwining of the quantum realities in my awareness and that is reflected in my writing.
http://www.freewebs.com/tantrabensko/ is my writing site. It includes published poetry and fiction, both my Kundra series and other more experimental pieces, as well as articles. I'm also an artist and model, so it is visually rich too.
Always inspired by experimental literature, films, and art, I explored all of them in my University years while getting my B.A. and M.A. in English from Florida State, and my M.F.A. in poetry writing from Iowa. I taught writing at FSU, Memphis State, and Iowa. I won the Academy of American Poets Award, and the award for best work, at the Iowa Journal of Literary Studies. My poems were published in numerous print literary journals such as Carolina Quarterly, Hawaii Review and in the Anhinga Anthology.
Eventually, I came to favor online publications, of which I have also had many. I was featured writer in Mannequin Envy, Global Inner Visions and Southern Hum. I have short stories in Retort Magazine, Ten Thousand Monkeys, Newtopia, Unlikely Stories, The Angler, Sein und Werden, Emerging Visions, and many others. I recently won the Editor's Pic Prize at Cezanne's Carrot. My next publication of a short story will be at the print magazine Alchemy Review.
My writing has gone in many directions, including five small press books, editing and writing for The Mendicant Magazine, publishing articles in magazines such as MKzine, and Body Mind Spirit. Most recently, I created a book which is an art book and Tantra teaching called Tantric Metaportals, which is out to publishers now.
My poetry is also spread around to many magazines, most online these days, so accessible to everyone. Rose and Thorn, Lit Chaos, Mad Hatters Review, and so forth.
I live in San Francisco, by the sea. I am a Tantra yoga teacher, healer, model, artist.
I am not, however, a flame thrower. For some reason, this lovely site changed my email name, which is Flameflower.
flamethrower's Genres: poetry, articles, short stories---literary and experimental
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