Artist description Flute and spoken word. The author Misha (Nogha) was born in 1955 in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Nordic and Metis ancestry. She received her education from Eastern Washington University, Portland State University, and Eastern Oregon University with degrees in English Literature and Secondary Education with endorsements in Language Arts and French. She is married to a Badger and they have four children. Misha's first novel, Red Spider White Web, published by Morrigan Publications in England, won the 1990 ReaderCon Award and was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her prose has appeared in Germany, Austria, Australia, Japan, America, and Canada. Her prose piece 'Tsuki Mangetsu' was used in a dynamic performance by two Australian composers and won the 1989 Prix d'Italia. She was formerly the editor of New Pathways magazine and her review column 'Points of Impact' carried through three magazines, New Pathways, Ice River edited by David Memmott, and Science Fiction Eye edited by Steve Brown. Misha is currently working on her new novel, Yellowjacket, a contemporary western. She also plans to write a sequel to Red Spider White Web entitled The Bell Factory as well as releasing another collection of short prose entitled Boneseed.

Music Style contemporary flute

Musical Influences Edgard Varese, Jean Paul Rampal, Michael Chocholak, Japanese Noh Theater

Instruments flutes, sax, saxinette, voice, 800 lb crush drain tile, skin drum, conch shell

Press Reviews "Misha's Red Spider White Web is, quite simply, everything cyberpunk should have been but wasn't." - Dr. Elyce Helford, Editor/Author, Enterprise Zones "Imagine Arthur Rimbaud writing cyberpunk and you'll have some idea of what to expect.." - Henry W. Targowski in Mark/Space , January 1998. "As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry." - John Shirley "Red Spider White Web is startlingly visual... Its pages reveal a series of starkley painted images that go to work on your mind like the pictures on a tarot deck." - James Blaylock "Her prose flashes knifelike or glows cooly depending on what kind of fire she wants to emit." - Michael Bishop "The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period." - Brian Aldiss "Misha's writing sounds like barbed wire being dragged across a raft of hydroelectric wire." - Conger Beasley

Additional Info Of all the peoples of the world, I think I admire most the ravens . They have no notion of nations or militaristic ideals or religious dogmas or cultural biases. They are not slaves to their tools. They gain sustenance from the aftermath of both death and birth. God flows through their feathers and veins simultaneously. The ravens are a people at one with father sky and mother earth.

Location Cove, Oregon - USA

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