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Producing Pandemic Bread was a true community effort. Professor Zeinabu Irene Davis recruited undergraduate and graduate students from several universities to work as crew, promising limitless food and their first IMDB credits. Seasoned actors Princess Punzalan, Becca Godinez and Claire Simba worked for the most modest wages that SAG would allow. Rizzhel Javier let us…
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A story about my day job as an interpreter went from an online performance on Generation Women’s virtual stage; to online publication in Zocalo Public Square; to an abbreviated version published in the San Diego Decameron Project; to an onstage reading at the Cygnet Theater; to a film adaptation, directed by award-winning filmmaker Zeinabu Irene…
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DimeStories is a monthly Flash Fiction open mic event that began 19 years ago in The Grove, a knitting supply and book store in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego. I began reading excerpts from short stories I’d written for my horror collection Spooky Mo then eventually started writing new flash fiction pieces. It…
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I am honored and delighted to be part of Authors in the Tent, a series of filmed interviews featured in Literary Hub and hosted by San Diego novelist Ona Russell. Previous guests include such distinguished writers as the German novelist Bernhard Schlink, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar and Representative Adam Schiff. https://lithub.com/marivi-soliven-on-the-challenges-of-being-a-faceless-interpreter/ Ona films the…
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Pandemic Bread on Fireside Last Friday Susan McBeth, indefatigable advocate of authors and founder of Adventures By the Book hosted a free virtual event on Fireside, a revolutionary new interactive streaming platform that invites the audience to participate in the show. Director Zeinabu Irene Davis, Screenwriter Marc Chery and I talked about the process of…
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Last Memorial Day weekend indie filmmaker Zeinabu Davis gathered a cast and crew to shoot a film based on my short story Pandemic Bread. The story was inspired by my day job which involved interpreting end of life calls between doctors, Covid patients, and their families. At the height of the pandemic, I was called…
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Stephanie Weaver is a TED Talks Coach, author of The Migraine Relief Plan Cookbook and host of the Resilience Series. Our far ranging conversation covered novels, rejection, my day job, the film adaptations of The Mango Bride and my short story Pandemic Bread and how I cook to survive the writing life. Click on the…
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In which Leah Cioco and I chat about dreams of flying, Joan Didion, mental health, micro aggressions and writing The Mango Bride and Pandemic Bread.