Marta Szabo

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: writer
• Location: Woodstock : NY : United States

About Me

I think that writing memoir is the most potent action I can take in this world. When I sit down to write – not an easy place to get to – I feel all my energies and abilities come into one focus, one laser point – I feel like a bird, pausing in mid-air, then plummeting down into the waves, intent on that one fish that will save it. I write, then come up for air, then look at what I have unearthed. It usually looks like just a handful of dust, not worth much. I could easily toss it out and forget about it. But I don’t. Not anymore. I add it to the pile. I am not sure what I am building, but this is all I have. For some reason, it is my most precious thing, the one thing that feels purely my own.

Interests

• My husband
• Fred Poole
• and I are co-directors of the Authentic Writing workshops where I do most of my writing. We also are co-founders and co-producers of The Woodstock Memoir Festival held every February in Woodstock
• NY and in the summers at Omega Institute
• Rhinebeck
• NY.

Favorite Movies

• Bicycle Thief
• Battle of Algiers
• ummm
• so many...

Favorite Books

• ON THE ROAD -- The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac; ALL THE STRANGE HOURS by Loren Eiseley; THE BODY NEVER LIES by Alice Miller; Listen by Wendy Salinger; The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton; Harbor Boys by Hugo Hamilton; Even Dogs Go Home to Die by Linda St. John; Leaving Mr. McKenzie by Jean Rhys; The Boys of My Youth by Joanne Beard; Charles Bukowski when he writes in first person; all graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi.

My Blogs	Team Members
Marta Szabo Stories
THE GURU LOOKED GOOD ~ a personal memoir by Marta Szabo
Experiments in Memoir