General 🧿
Kez (he/ they) is a writer, artist, teacher, astrologer, and environmental advocate. He is proud to call the city of Somerville, MA, his current home. After graduating from the University of Chicago with degrees in English and economics, he has had the fortune of living in northern Arizona, Chicago, Portland OR, and Hawaii. His passions include biking, meditating, hanging out with his cat, and envisioning an alternative world. Right now, he is working on several poetry collections and an astrological treatise.
Skills
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WRITING/ EDITING: poetry, novels, blogging, travel, nonfiction, short story, critique, grants
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ART: cartoons, collage, sketching, painting, photography, graphic design (PhotoShop, Illustrator)
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MUSIC: professional piano performance, composition/ synthesis, Logic Pro, LMMS, audio engineering, ProTools
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COMPUTER LANGUAGES: Python, R, JavaScript, HTML/ CSS, C
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FRAMEWORKS: JS libraries, CSS Flexbox, Github, command line
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PSYCHOSPIRITUAL: astrology (birth chart, progressions, transits, synastry, returns), Tarot, Myers-Briggs profiling (Jungian)
Influences
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Some Favorite Poems:
River Snow (Liu Zongyuan), Stop All the Clocks (W.H. Auden), Eurydice (H.D.), Impression du Matin (Oscar Wilde), Brooklyn Narcissus (Paul Blackburn) , The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
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Writers and Philosophers:
Ocean Vuong, Sylvia Plath, Samuel T. Coleridge, Ursula K. Le Guin, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Sparkly Kat, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia E. Butler, Edgar Allan Poe, Michel Foucault
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Musicians:
Kino, Modest Mouse, Fryderyk Chopin, Cocteau Twins, Pixies, Massive Attack, Manu Chao, Daddy Yankee
Contact
🧿 You can contact Kez directly at kesperwang@gmail.com.