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HAZEL KIGHT WITHAM

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Hazel Kight Witham is a writer, teacher, activist, artist, and mother of two, whose work can be found in a lovely collection of literary journals. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. from Antioch University Los Angeles. As a proud public school teacher, she loves listening to young people and challenging them to think more critically and creatively about their place in the world they wish to live.

​Summers she loses and finds herself on an island in Maine, where the sunsets sometimes look like this. She lives with her husband and two sons in Los Angeles, where she often longs to find a way to invent time. 
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PUBLICATIONS

PROSE
"Books To See Us Through" : Review of my earliest pandemic lifelines: Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being and Ross Gay's The Book of Delights at "High Country News."
"The Power of Story" : "The Sun" Magazine : Interview with Jared Seide on how Listening to Each Other can Restore our Humanity.
"House Engraved": Flash Essay in "Cultural Weekly": About what mourning looks like in a haunted season.
"The Other Side of Quiet":  Essay in "Mutha Magazine" : The story of my EarlyBoy's unexpected arrival, and the unexpected things it taught me.
"My Humble Submission" : On Submitting Writing into the World.
"Students Remind Us: Make the Struggle Beautiful" : Essay on the UTLA Teacher's strike, dance activism, and where teachers get their best inspiration (page 7).
"Teaching While Breathless" : Essay on breathing through the high seas of classroom, of a writing life.
"The Storm Between Us" : Essay reprinted in "Lunch Ticket," originally published in "Bellevue Literary Review."
"Skin in the Game: A Letter to the Mostly White Parents in my Hometown on How to be the Change" : Essay at "Integrated Schools."
"The Lady of the Watch": Essay in Zoetic Press's NonBinary Review, Anne of Green Gables Issue, about what the Lady of Shallot had to teach me, reprinted in Women Who Submit's anthology, "Accolades" 
"Whirl" : Flash Essay at "Angels Flight Literary West."
POETRY
For Women Who Roar: "LGBTQ Poems" : Pride Poems celebrating my mamas: "Quonset Hut of Love," "Pride Before the Fall," "The Talk."
"Blessing In Fire: A Villanelle for Public Education" : An LAUSD Strike Poem at Cultural Weekly.
Poems for the "Disarm" series at "Rising Phoenix Review," a Themed issue Responding to Mass Shooting in America. 
"there is no room Inside this room" 
"Offering" 
"Lockdown Ready"
"Done" : Protest poem at Lady/Liberty/Lit, about one small and mighty response to the 2016 debacle.
"Ode to the Man Inside and the Letter he will not get because he was transferred to a new prison on Tuesday last" :"Rising Phoenix Review," for Eze, and his innocence.
"The Week Before," "Hoofbeat Heartbeat," "First Sight," "how to become unraveled": Poems at Sixfold on my EarlyBoy and life in the NICU.
"At the Intersection" : Poem in "Rising Phoenix Review", on coming to terms with all I do not know.
PRESS
Part 1: KCRW:"Greater LA" Interview: On the wobbly shift to remote learning in time of COVID-19 
Part 2: KCRW:"Greater LA" Update on remote learning
Part 3: KCRW:"Greater LA" End of School
Part 4: KCRW:"Greater LA" "Back" to School 
"Think" Strike Dance : Viral Video of my dance activism dream, the UTLA "Public Ed Dance Challenge" performed during our historic strike, in support of Schools our Students Deserve.
​"LAUSD strike dancers get viral boost from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez" in Los Angeles Times.
"What My Students Taught Me" Interview with Hazel and former student / forever inspiration Drew on KPCC's "Take Two."
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"Be a Lamp

Or a Life-boat

Or a Ladder"
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​~Rumi

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