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today tricia warden has found out that using standard pliers in lieu of tweezers to pull out nipple hairs is not as easy as it looks. brainlift and attack god inside are books of poetry, short fiction, and art (2.13.61 publications in USA & UK) that she wrote. reasonable offer refused (poetry and a play) and death is hereditary (short fiction) are new completed works. death is hereditary will be published in 2004 on eskmo press, moscow, russia. another volume of her choicest materials entitled, redecorating the cell, will be published by pine slopes press, south africa by the ever patient aryan kaganof. warden was born in jersey city, nj. she grew up in union city, nj- which then boasted to be the most highly densely populated city in the world per cubic inch. beat that bombay. went to nyu for a year, couldn’t afford it, lived by her wits on other people’s couches and floors, wrote a fuckload, decided to continue educating herself, got published, danced through personal and social turmoil, lived in jersey city again for about 10 years, mostly with joe her partner in crime and bad jokes, they had a fire a few years back but still likes to collect stuff, go figure. she has been living in montclair, nj for the past two years, the trees are nice and someone only threw rocks at her once so she thinks it’s all right. she has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, notably: longshot, ny press, purr (uk), wide angle, bust, dick for a day (villard, this title was on the boston globe’s bestseller list and was published in 3 countries), bust guide to new world order (penguin, usa), best of 2.13.61 (2.13.61), revival: writers of lollapalooza (manic d). her writing was used in the film shambondama elegy by ian kerkhof, a film which won the golden calf special jury prize at the grand prix of dutch cinema. she is also a spoken word performer and has performed with many damn cool folks: hubert selby jr., john cale, ntozake shange, ed sanders, jack womack, exene cervenka, henry rollins, don bajema, blixa bargeld, mark e smith, and michael gira among others. she is also the voice behind the audio edition of jack womack’s random acts of senseless violence (a new york times notable book). there are actually a few colleges that have put her work on their curriculum. she has had three bands, liarface, clot, and vagina dentata and is in the process of forming another. she is also the editor of an online arts magazine, digitalhammer.com and is also chipping away 2 novels, and another book of poetry. she writes in lowercase because of a certain dislike of the shift button and not from a strange e.e. cummings fixation. she thinks sausage although gross is quite tasty.

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