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.
zlib_text: Text copyright © 2010 by Becca C Smith
  
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  Published by Red Frog Publishing a division of Red Frog Media
  
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  First published in 2010
  
  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
  similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended
  by the author.
  
  ISBN 978-1-452-88907-8
  
  Dedicated to my husband Stephan –
  
  For making everyday an adventure and teaching me
  
  what true love really is...
  
  I love you.
  
   **Acknowledgements**
  
  I want to thank the following people:
  
  My husband, Stephan, for being a constant pillar of support.
  
  My mom and dad for always believing in me.
  
  My sister, Julie, who has always been there for me no matter what, and taught
  me the meaning of: “I’ve got your back.”
  
  