Hi!
I'm James Bezerra. Currently I’m living in rainy Portland, Oregon where I’m working on an MFA in Creative Writing.
I used to live in and around LA, where I got a Master of Arts degree from California State University Northridge, and also taught First Year Composition (and loved it). Before that I lived in San Diego (and
yet never learned to surf or smoke pot). Before that, I grew up in the great San Joaquin Valley of central California. My family was in the dairy-farming business so I knew cows by their first names and had my own dirt pile.
I’ve been a writer my whole life, but I didn’t get to go to college right away. I did some other stuff like unload trucks for a living, work call centers, and manage the largest pet cemetery in southern California. I also worked for “Dancing with the Stars” when I lived in LA and I met Billy Ray Cyrus one time! People tell me I should stop bragging about that, but I’m never gonna.
This website is my online writing portfolio. I’m a writer still looking for his audience (and for an agent!). I write a little of everything. I’m an award-winning playwright, an award-winning short story writer, a produced screenwriter, and a published poet! And my first nonfiction book is up on Amazon right now! Obviously I am a very fancy person. I just wish I wasn’t living entirely off of canned goods and Ramen, you know? This starving artist thing ain’t no joke.
I hope you will find some joy in this website. I’m in the process of making some changes so that I can update it (and you!) better and more frequently. I think the shape of what we consider "writing" may be changing and my new plan is to use this humble Weebly site to investigate and invent some new writing ideas.
I'm James Bezerra. Currently I’m living in rainy Portland, Oregon where I’m working on an MFA in Creative Writing.
I used to live in and around LA, where I got a Master of Arts degree from California State University Northridge, and also taught First Year Composition (and loved it). Before that I lived in San Diego (and
yet never learned to surf or smoke pot). Before that, I grew up in the great San Joaquin Valley of central California. My family was in the dairy-farming business so I knew cows by their first names and had my own dirt pile.
I’ve been a writer my whole life, but I didn’t get to go to college right away. I did some other stuff like unload trucks for a living, work call centers, and manage the largest pet cemetery in southern California. I also worked for “Dancing with the Stars” when I lived in LA and I met Billy Ray Cyrus one time! People tell me I should stop bragging about that, but I’m never gonna.
This website is my online writing portfolio. I’m a writer still looking for his audience (and for an agent!). I write a little of everything. I’m an award-winning playwright, an award-winning short story writer, a produced screenwriter, and a published poet! And my first nonfiction book is up on Amazon right now! Obviously I am a very fancy person. I just wish I wasn’t living entirely off of canned goods and Ramen, you know? This starving artist thing ain’t no joke.
I hope you will find some joy in this website. I’m in the process of making some changes so that I can update it (and you!) better and more frequently. I think the shape of what we consider "writing" may be changing and my new plan is to use this humble Weebly site to investigate and invent some new writing ideas.