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THERESA WHITEHILL, BIO
A California poet, graphic designer, and letterpress printer, Theresa Whitehill currently serves as the City of Ukiah's Poet Laureate for a two-year term that begin in April of 2009. In addition to poetry, her literary work includes poetic essay, letterpress broadsides, copywriting, and commissions. She is well known to Mendocino County audiences as an expressive performer.
Whitehill has written on behalf of Stags' Leap Winery, Alice Waters, and Appellation Magazine, and has partnered with chef and author Shannon Hughes to create culinary poetry events blending her poetry with Hughes' menus.
As a book arts student of Mills College, Whitehill has produced a body of letterpress broadsides. Her letterpress work and poetry are in the collections of the Getty Museum, the John Hay Library of Brown University, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and Stanford's Special Collections Library.
Pygmy Forest Press published her current book of poetry, A Natural History of Mill Towns, in November of 2009. For information on ordering the book, see this linked PDF
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