056 - Creative Alchemy with Anatalia Vallez

Welcome back to The Earth Sea Love Podcast. We're very happy to share with you our first conversation episode of 2023.

Your host, Dr. Sheree Mack is talking to Anatalia Vallez. Anatalia is  a writer, actor, and creative alchemist from California, United States with roots in Guerrero, Mexico. Addressing everything from migration, machismo and our relationship to nature, she seeks to find intimate truths and plant seeds through art.  

In this episode they talk about:

* Gratitude

* When Sheree and Anatalia first met

* Where Anatalia is calling in from

* What is Anatalia's relationship with nature

* What does Anatalia do? Who do she be?

* The art making process

* The Most Spectacular Mistake, Anatalia's writing

* What it was like to release a collection of poetry during a pandemic

*The benefits of listening

* Remembering our ancestors

* Belonging to nature

* Homies who submit - writing and publishing

 

Bio: Anatalia Vallez is a writer, actor, and creative alchemist from California, United States with roots in Guerrero, Mexico. Addressing everything from migration, machismo and our relationship to nature, she seeks to find intimate truths and plant seeds through art.  
She is the author of the poetry collection: The Most Spectacular Mistake (FlowerSong Press, 2020) which has been featured in the LA Times, LibroMobile and KPFK Radio’s Nuestra Voz. Currently completing her MFA in Television, Film and Theatre at Cal State Los Angeles this Spring, she's also working on a second collection of poetry and curating a virtual BIPOC-centered community called Homies Who Submit.

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