Linda Ravenswood (BFA, MA, PhD abd) is a poet and performance artist from Los Angeles. Founder and Editor-in-chief of The Los Angeles Press, and co-founding member of Melrose Poetry Bureau, Linda is a two time Pushcart Prize nominee, a winner of The California Writers Grant / Yefe Nof Award 2019, an Asylum Arts Fellow 2020, and finalist for The International Beverly Prize for Literature 2019. Current projects (2020) include partnerships with PEN USA, The City of West Hollywood,The Poetry Society of New York, and Hinchas Press. She was shortlisted for Poet Laureate of Los Angeles in 2017. A full collection of her poetry, rock waves / sloe drags is forthcoming from Eyewear London, 2021.

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Married at 15, Tressa Schaeffer Prisbrey moved to Seattle with her 7 children. All the while, she collected things. Pencils, dolls, doll heads. Tressa bought a piece of land in Santa Susana and built 13 structures, made of glass bottles—all collected from the dump. A home for her pencil collection, her doll heads, and more. And when all but one child died, she built each a memorial home of glass. Visitors paid a quarter to visit. Grandma Prisbrey gifted her land and Village to Simi Valley. Since the ’94 Northridge earthquake, artists and friends of Bottle Village have tried to maintain this monument to the woman who turned glass bottles into art.