title: The Vicious Red Relic, Love: A Fabulist Memoir
author: Anna Joy Springer
description: Anna Joy Springer is a prose writer and visual artist who makes grotesques  creating hybrid texts that combine sacred and profane elements to evoke intensely embodied conceptual-emotional experiences in readers. Formerly a singer in the Bay Area bands, Blatz, The Grups, and Cypher in the Snow, Anna Joy has toured the United States and Europe being a wild feminist punk performer, and also toured with the all-women spoken word extravaganza, Sister Spit. She is author of the illustrated novella, The Birdwisher (Birds of Lace). She received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, and is now Associate Professor of Literature at University of California at San Diego, where she truly loves teaching courses in Experimental Writing, Graphic Texts, and Postmodern Feminist Literatures.
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  ## THE RED LEDGER
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## MEREDITH WILD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is an original publication of Meredith Wild.
  
  
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