In this Issue

Exhale is proud to include

these new contributors

in our

Spring, 2010 Issue:

Aida Salazar is a writer who grew up in Southeast Los Angeles where she spent many days sitting in little puddles of water on cement believing she was in the ocean. With an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts, she has performed/read at cultural centers, cafes, alternative art spaces and universities throughout the Southwest and Mexico. Her installations have been exhibited at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, Riverside Art Museum and California Institute of the Arts. Her critical essays and poetry have appeared in publications such as Women and Performance: Journal of Feminist Theory, TREPAN, and Frontera Magazine. She was a resident writer at Hedgebrook, a long-standing writers’ colony for women and attended the renowned Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop. Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to become a write-at-home mom, she was involved in promoting culture work for many years in Los Angeles as a producer of multi-media events and festivals. She currently lives in Oakland with her musician husband and two fiery children and is at work on a book-length memoir about the death of her first-born child. You can read some of her meditations on mothering on her blog – www.blogamama.blogspot.com.

Greca Fotopolous