Welcome to who’s on fourth where one member of the yeah write community will interview another yeah writer, and the interview will publish the fourth Monday of each month. Next in the series features Arden of Arden Ruth Writes interviewing Angie of angieinspired.

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yeah write on yeah write: Arden interviews Angie

Angie first ‘met’ our resident editor & micro-queen, Christine, at the Trifecta writing challenge. So when it closed up shop a year ago, she followed Christine over to yeah write and found herself a new home at yeah write’s very own microstory challenge. Angie enjoys these micro challenges for their brevity, which she believes is always best.

As always, I wanted Angie to provide any advice to the yeah write virgins and lurkers waiting to dive in to our writing pool. I’d like this twice if I could:

Angie began writing as early as the fourth grade. She found poetry in Shel Silverstein (me too!) and soon after began writing her own.

Speaking of angieinspired, Angie hopes to publish her own book of poetry one day. With her blog, she has been able to keep a schedule of writing to help her find her poetic voice and get the words out on the page.

As for inspiration, Angie’s poetic muse has always been death. When she left home, her mom converted her room into a rental for the elderly, eventually adding on a whole business to their house for assisted living. If you take a glance at her bedside table, it’s not too surprising what you’ll find:

When Angie isn’t writing, you can find her working as a substitute teacher and a summer camp director. She grew up in the center of the United States and went to college in Kansas (where she met her husband). Though they moved around a bit beforehand, they finally settled down in his home state of California and it’s been their home for the past 14 years. She also enjoys running, hiking and sitting in the sun whenever she can.

Except for her husband, Angie’s family of six is completely female. That’s a lot of estrogen in one house!

Thank you Angie for letting us here at yeah write dive into your life a little further. We are so happy to have you in our community!

Follow Angie on Twitter at @angiewalker36!

Want to know more about Angie? Here are 5 things you never knew about this marvelous poet:

1. She ran a full marathon (on one hour of sleep) because she had the notion “It’s easier than writing a book.”
2. She appeared on ABC’s TV show Wipeout as “Aerobic Angie,” in an attempt to win $50,000.
3. She played the Wicked Witch for a local college production of the Wiz and her girls were flying monkeys.
4. She unconsciously assumes a country accent after spending time with her Midwestern parents, or doing any public speaking. She’s prone to using the word “nothing” when “anything” is proper. “I don’t know nothing.”
5. She doesn’t care if it takes more calories to eat celery than burn it. Stick some cheese or PB on it if it really bothers you. She’s a fan of lemon juice and salt.

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