Hello, I'm Maureen Evans. Spezzato is my electronic notebook. I'm a writer, poet and anarchist from the Canadian Northwest, but I haven't been home for years.
I'm fairly obsessed with the study and practice of creative writing. My work is occasionally published by international English-language publications/publishers, such as Ferment Zine, Huffington Post, Ulster Tatler, Room Magazine, Fugue, Kearny Street Workshop, League of Canadian Poets, Grist Mill, and others. I earned my MA English (Hons) at Queen’s University of Belfast, and previously studied writing and anthropology at UBC, earning a BFA (Hons).
You might have arrived here via Twitter, which has turned out to be a fantastic laboratory for two of my creative experiments: over one thousand haiku as @maureen, and a collection of tweeted recipes as @cookbook.
The latter has been simultaneously my most successful and personally unexpected writing project. Eat Tweet: 1020 recipe gems from the twitter community's @cookbook" has been an exercise in comic relief, and a nice experience of being practically useful! I attempt to make contributions to my communities and to larger society, and the search for how to do that is part of my writing. I like to enable more people to write also, for example, serving as Poet in Residence for a Canadian youth poetry forum, and transcriptionist of some oral history of Sudan for McSweeney's Press. Relatedly, I was an editing tutor on three teen-written books from 826 Valencia, a venerable non-profit writing center, and I'm soon to serve some similar function at the Ministry of Stories, as well.I currently live in London with my love and travel accomplice, Blaine Cook. We ultimately plan to homestead in British Columbia, where I'd like to foster anarchism as both a writer and teacher.