PATTERNS AND TONES

Karen Finlay (not to be mistaken with the “other” Karen Finley) has her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College, and was the recipient of the Ardella Mills Scholarship and The Marion Boess Haworth Award.  Her work can be seen on karennfinlay.com , Muni Diaries, and Facebook status updates.  She has been honored to read her work at Litquake, Beast Crawl, Tilde, The Art Beat Foundation, Carried-Away Productions, The Mixing Bowl Reading Series, The Rebel Reading Series, and The Mission Creek Festival.  She is working on a Young Adult novel and a collection of personal essays about teen angst, a subject in which she is very well versed.  She likes pina coladas but hates getting caught in the rain. I stayed home and read a lot, and watched a lot of TV.   Holden Caulfield and James Dean became my idols—glorious misfits who didn’t worry about sweaters.   I wanted to hang out with them , not the stupid kids at my stupid school.   I couldn’t wa...