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Alicia Grega

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Born

in Rancho Cordova, California, The United States

Website

http://AliciaGrega.com

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Genre

Poetry, Spirituality, Art

Influences

Anais Nin, Tennessee Williams, Lucia Berlin, Jack Kerouac, Mary Karr, ...more

Member Since

August 2012

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Alicia Lynn Grega is a writer, theatrical artist, performance coach and educator specializing in exploration of contemporary social issues through the liberation of personal storytelling.
Plays produced include Operation Wanderlust, Insomniac Salad, Banger's Elixir, and White Matter Surplus. Her TV pilot for Service was a finalist in Cinefluential 2019 (Ermantourage). Poetry collections include Haptikos (2015) and Dystalgia (2020).
She was an arts journalist at The Scranton Times (electric city) for 15 years and currently teaches fine arts, communications, English and writing courses at Lackawanna College and the University of Cincinnati. She has also worked for several years as a teaching artist with Arts in Education in NEPA and the Philad ...more

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The Lies They Told

by Ellen Marie Wiseman (Goodreads Author)

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Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

by Clare Barron

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Primary Trust

by Eboni Booth

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Alicia’s Quotes

“The journey itself is my home.”
― Matsuo Basho

tags: travel

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“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

tags: insight

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“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

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“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: self-deception

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“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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