DJ Gaskin...

                poet
                    writer
                              artist
                                      workshop facilitator

the writer...
DJ Gaskin has placed poetry and prose with Zillah, The Fairfield Review, freefall, Literary Salt, Avocet, Switched-On Gutenberg, WordWrights, National Public Radio, The Washington Post and others and has two poems in the recently released anthology Liberated Muse Vol. 1: How I Freed My Soul (available at Outskirts Press and also Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com). DJ is the creator of the Poetry as Healing Art expressive poetry workshops, which she has conducted with teens in addiction recovery and adults in various settings. Recently assembling over 80 of her poems into a full-length book manuscript, she’s now busy courting publishers for that project, while also working on her never-ending novel.

the artist...
DJ’s 'slip-jewel' journals, 'threads of life' journals and line of handmade ‘haikugami’ (haiku/origami) greeting cards sell exclusively through a couple of art & fine-craft galleries in the Washington DC area (or via inquiry). Select paintings and collage are exhibited and sold through various local venues. DJ is also exploring creative expression through book arts. Click here for more about the artist.  

and more...
A corporate writer/editor by day, in her free hours when she’s not playing with paint and paste between writing projects, you can find her talking to the creatures that inhabit the cozy back yard of her Springfield, Va. home — a Certified Backyard Wildlife Habitat. 

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