BL Kennedy hosts Charlene Ungstad

CHARLENE ANN UNGSTAD: Is a third generation native of Sacramento, California. She is the author of one volume of poetry "Weaving Satori in Dreamfire" and has been active in the Sacramento poetry community since 1980. Ungstad was born on September 12th, 1950. She holds a B.A. Degree in literature from California State University, Sacramento. She has written numberous short stories, conducted interviews with Kathy Acker, Anne Waldman, Jerome Rothenberg, Steve Abbott, Anselm Hollo, Peter Lamborne Wilson, B.L.Kennedy, and Andrew Schelling. She has studied poetry with Dennis Schmitz, Paul Oehler and Anselm Hollo. She has been a student at the world famous Clarion Writers Workshop where she studied with Harlan Ellison, Peter S. Beagle, Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm. One of the original founding members of the Sacramento Artists and Writers Co-Op where she served as President from 1980 to 1984. She has been an active Board Member for the Friends of the Sacramento Library, Sacramento Poetry Center, Focus on Writers, NRP Productions and the Archives Group. She has appeared in print in the Sacramento Bee, Poetry Now, Rattlesnake Review, Suttertown News, F/X, Bombay Gin, Astarte, Steelhead Review, Poets on the Edge, Voices from the Pit, Pinchpenny, Sightings and the Naropa Summer Journal. Currently she writes the book reviews for the Rattlesnake Review and is working on a collection of short stories and of her interviews with various writers. Charlene lives in Sacramento, California and can never stop dreaming.