Aimee Suzara

Writer, Performer and Educator

<style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.paragraphstyle5, li.paragraphstyle5, div.paragraphstyle5 { margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="paragraphstyle5"><b>Aimee Suzara</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> is the founder and lead artist of the <i>Pagbabalik (Return)</i></span> Project and is a Filipino-American writer, cultural worker and educator who has been writing and performing in the San Francisco (SF) Bay Area since 1999. Suzara’s mission is to create, and help others create, art that builds community, fosters healing, and provokes important questions through spoken word, theater and movement. Her first play, Pagbabalik (Return) was twice the recipient of the Zellerbach Arts Fund and was featured at several Bay Area festivals.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>She also collaborates with Amara Tabor-Smith’s Deep Waters Dance Theater and was a member of Kreatibo, a queer Pin@y arts collective. Suzara’s poetry collection, <i>the space between</i><span style="font-style: normal;">, was published by Finishing Line Press; her poems have been published in journals and anthologies such as </span><i>Lantern Review, Kartika Review, Walang Hiya (Without Shame)</i><span style="font-style: normal;">: </span><i>literature taking risks towards liberatory practice</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> (Arkipelago Books 2009), and she has been invited as a featured poet and arts educator at schools, universities and arts venues nationally. Suzara has a Mills College M.F.A. and teaches English at Bay Area colleges. She has been a Hedgebrook Resident Artist and was accepted to be an Associate Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts Playwriting Program in 2011.</span></p>

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