TEDx Poet Rachel Kann is a modern-day mystic: irreverently reverent and exuberantly human. Her poetry and short story collection, 10 For Everything, is available from Orange Ocean Press. Her writing (poetry and fiction) also appears in journals such as Eclipse, Permafrost, Coe Review, Sou’wester, GW Review, Quiddity, and Lalitamba. You can find her work in anthologies including A Poet’s Haggadah, Word Warriors from Seal Press, His Rib from Penmanship Press, and Knocking at the Door from Birch Bench Press. She has two albums, Ptolemaic Complex and Word to the WHY?S, and collaborates with producers such as End.User, Tack-Fu, and conductor/composer Gee Gee Gallegos. She’s performed her poetry with artists like daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, Sage Francis, Saul Williams, and Rahzel, at venues such as Disney Concert Hall, Royce Hall, The Broad Stage, The San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, and the Vans Warped Tour. Her work has received accolades from the James Kirkwood Fiction Awards (short story), Writer’s Digest Short-Short Story Awards (micro-fiction), LA Weekly Awards (best supporting actress) Backstage West Garland Awards Critic's Picks (best supporting actress) and both the audio and video award for the International Slam Idol (poetry). Rachel was commissioned by The Broad Stage to write and perform a contemporary retelling of Peter Pan from Tinker Bell's perspective, accompanied by Maestra Rachael Worby's 18-piece orchestra, Muse/Ique. Rachel's music video, created with collaborator and choreographer Keith Johnson, "Lie Down Beside You," has received screenings at the 4 The Camera Film Festival and Landlocked Film Festival. Rachel was invited to perform her poetry at TEDx UCLA and in Flight 18 (where she was the DJ and Dance Captain as well) at 3LD Technology in New York City. She teaches poetry and fiction workshops through the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.