Holly PradoHolly Prado (1938-2019) was a member of the LA literary community since the early 1970s. Prado's work, which combines the personal and the mythic with evocative intensity, has appeared in more than a hundred publications and a dozen anthologies, bothnationally and internationally. Her thirteenth book, WEATHER, a Cahuenga Press book, was published in 2019. Her book, ESPERANZA: POEMS FOR ORPHEUS (Cahuenga Press, 1998), has been highly praised, particularly in The Women's Review of Books (Wellesley College)--Prado has, more than any other poet I know, the ability to capture and describe the relationship between interior and exterior worlds in a manner that is simultaneously grounded and filled with mystery, wrote Alison Townsend--and The Chicago Review. Her previous books include poetry, prose-poetry, a novel, two novellas. She taught creative writing, privately, for forty-two years; she also taught poetry in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC, for twenty years. She was awarded a Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles, in 2006, for her work in the literary community. Also, Prado was the recipient of the 2016 George Drury Smith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, presented annually by Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation in honor of its founder, George Drury Smith. The critic Robert Peters wrote, Her writing is done, metaphorically speaking, with a unique, knife-sharp edge. Prado is both passionate and visionary. Read More Read Less