Marie Kazalia was born in Toledo, Ohio and has lived her adult life primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area with the exception of 4 expatriate years in Japan, India, and Hong Kong. She has a BFA degree from California College of Arts and Crafts. Marie Kazalia’s book of poems Erratic Sleep in a Cold Hotel, First Edition ISBN#: 0-9676660-0-7 -- 2nd Edition ISBN: 1-930935-15-3, available from Phony Lid Publications, PO Box 29066 Los Angeles, CA 90029 USA or visit the Phony Lid Books web page at: http://www.phonylid.com/. Marie Kazalia also has two 40 page mini-chapbooks: All-Purpose Tragedy ISBN#: 1-930903-02-2, and Megalopolis, ISBN: 1-930903-18-9 both available from CC MARIMBO Publications, PO BOX 933, Berkeley, CA. 94701-0933, Phony Lid Books will publish Marie Kazalia’s novel, titled Minden Row, in 2004.
live/audio/video performances:
Marie Kazalia has appeared as featured reader at Diane di Prima’s reading series held at the Bird&Beckett Bookstore in San Francisco, Marie Kazalia read her poetry at the ATA in San Francisco with John Cassady(son of Beat legends Neal Cassady&Caroline Cassady) playing backup on electric guitar, Marie Kazalia appeared as featured the 3300Club in San Francisco and the Enrico’s Restaurant Poetry Reading series in North Beach in San Francisco also the 418 Project in Santa Cruz and as featured reader at Pegasus Bookstore in Berkeley, as well making audio appearances in Joseph Verrilli’s audio SHOES zine and others... She has been guest poet on J. P. Dancing Bear’s KKUP radio show, and on the Internet Radio series and in a weekly one hour show featuring Marie Kazalia reading from her Hong Kong novel, titled: Minden Row, at Luver Radio in Berkeley and she has performed live in the Luver Radio live performance series on the University of California at Berkeley campus in 2003. Marie Kazalia is also Producer of her own cable TV poets series called *Sound Sight* on Channel 29 in San Francisco, and has her own poets interview series at called Marie Kazalia’s Underground Stream, at http://www.legionstudios.com/
Marie Kazalia’s poetry has appeared in anthologies: “Bukowski Hangover Project” anthology ISBN 0-9701950-3-6, “Pull the Trigger”anthology, the Uno- Poetry Anthology ISBN: 1-4010-4120-5 (UK), the “Survive and Thrive” anthology ISBN: 1-891470-15-9 Marie Kazalia’s poetry and fiction have appeared in the print literary journals, anthologies, and broadsheets: AABYE(UK), American Muse, American Poetry Review, Anthology, Art:Mag, Artemis Journal, Arnazella, Asspants, ATOM MIND, Aura Literary Arts Review, Axe Factory, Bloodstone, Bound, Box of Rocks, The Butcher’s Block, Bukowski Review, Caprice, Cerberus, Chrysanthemum, Clark Street Review, Concrete Wolf, Crooked River Press, Curbside Review, Devil Blossoms, EDGAR, Electric Velocipede, EPOCH, Experimental Forest, Falling Star, Femspec, 52%, First Class, Footsteps, Fresh (NZ),Full Unit Hookup, Futures, fyuocuk, Galaxy Literary Journal, gluestick, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Heeltap, Hick and the Blackman, Horse Thiefs Journal, IBBETSON ST., IdioM, IODINE, Java Turtle, Joey, Journeys/Heritage West (haibun), juju(UK), Limestone Circle, Louisiana Review, Lummox, Lullwater Review, Main Street Rag, Melange, Mercy, Midwest Poetry Review, Mineshaft, Mindkites, Moon Journal Magazine, Mosaic Magazine, Multi-Storey(UK), My Kitchen Table, Mysterious Visions Anthology, Nerve Cowboy, Niedergasse(Swiss), Nite Writers International, No Exit, Noble Poets Newsletter, Open Cut, Outstretch, Over the Transom, Pauper, Penny Dreadful Review, Planet Prozak(UK), Poetry Bone, Poetry Conspiracy, Poetry Motel, Pop Poets, Ragtime Joe’s Review, Rain City Review, Real Change, Red Booth Review, San Francisco Reader, Shoes, Shrimp!, Slipstream, SNARK, Spare Change, Superior News, staplegun, Stovepipe, synapse, Taj Mahal review (India), Talus&Scree, 33Review, 2River View, UNHINGED(UK), Uno- Poetry Anthology ISBN: 1-4010-4120-5 (UK), United Workers Press, Unwound, Urban Spaghetti, Vagabond, Vis-A-Septic, Volta, Vol. No. Magazine, Way Station Magazine, Whiskey Island, W’orcs Aloud Allowed, Xero, yefief, ZZZ Zyne, and in over 100 electronic literary journals., and a regular contributor to Babel Magazine at http://www.babelmagazine.com/ .
