MINDY NETTIFEE...

...is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer and performance poet from Long Beach, California. She has competed in five National Poetry Slams, opened for indie rock acts The Cold War Kids and Meiko, and curated events for the Smithsonian, the city of Los Angeles, GirlFest, The Drums Inside Your Chest and more. She is the author or two books of poetry, Sleepyhead Assassins (Moon Tide Press) and Rise of the Trust Fall (Write Bloody Press), a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the co-founder and director of Write Now Poetry Society, a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to building the audience for great poetry.

Get to know Mindy a little too well: www.thecultofmindy.com