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dina Peone
writer. editor. educator.
Dina is at work on a memoir about her escape from a house fire with severe burns when she was a morbid teenager.
She was selected to be the Summer 2020 Writer-in-Residence at the Jack Kerouac House. Due to the pandemic, this residency has been postponed until 2022.
Dina created the Cliffhanger, an anthology of art and literature devoted to fragments, in 2013.
She occasionally hosts free creative writing workshops and literature readings in Saugerties, New York.
Follow her on twitter/instagram: @dinapeone
In 2020, Dina launched an experimental advice column DEAR GHOSTFINGERS. Subscription is free and submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
As of 2021, she writes Director's Treatments for ArtClass, a bi-coastal production company.
Projects
Dina collages in Nick Flynn's workshop, "Memoir as Bewilderment." Photo by Nick Flynn, 2018.
A morbid teenage Dina stands inside a burned house, predating her house fire.
"Return to Sender," Vol. 4 of the Cliffhanger.
"Real Live Literature," a reading at Market St. Cafe & Soda Fountain, Saugerties, NY
Found doll house with detachable roof, chicken wire, yarn, glue, acrylics, and spooky spiderweb cloth. 5 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Made by Dina in 2018.
Dina defends her Master's thesis against superstition, awaiting her defense at the University of Iowa. Friday the 13th, May 2018.
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