Monica Storss

Monica Storss is a left-coast writer with an affinity for the Deep South. Her work focuses on domesticity, dérèglement, and the appearance of alchemy in the everyday world. She holds a master’s degree from the University of California at Davis. She is married to the poet Arthur Rimbaud.

 

 

 

Background: Half mermaid-half Amazon, Monica Storss is a west-coast based poet, writer, and teacher. She currently curates Venom & the Anecdote, a monthly reading series at The Greenhouse in San Francisco. Monica also works as a part of the arts collective OUT OF CONTEXT, as Director of Performance Installations. She is one-half of The Fish Slurry Processing Technicians, a Portland/Astoria, Oregon based duo that works with maritime and oceanic-based literature, specifically nature conservation and fisher poets and fisher poetry. Monica’s scholarly work focuses on Arthur Rimbaud, punk rock, gender, religion and mysticism, and vagabonds. After living in the Pacific states, Texas, Quebec, and France, Monica currently resides in San Francisco, California.