Gloria Mindock is editor of Cervena Barva Press. She is the author of two chapbooks, Doppelganger (S.Press), Oh Angel (U Soku Stampa) and has a poetry book forthcoming called, Nothing Divine Here (U Soku Stampa). Gloria has been published in numerous journals including River Styx, Phoebe, Poet Lore, Blackbox, Ibbetson St., WHLR, and UNU: Revista de Cultura in Romania with translations by Flavia Cosma. Work is forthcoming in two anthologies and in the literary magazines BOGG and Big Hammer. Gloria has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. From 1984-1994, she edited the Boston Literary Review/BLuR and was co-founder of Theatre S.
With an extensive background in theatre, Gloria has written and performed numerous performance pieces including BIG BOMB BUICKS, WHERE DID ALL THOSE BIRDS AND DOGS COME FROM?, I WISH FRANCISCO FRANCO WOULD LOVE ME, and SKIN CELLS, MAGGOTS, AND OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST. Her poetry collection called Doppelganger was a text of a theatre piece of the same name performed by THEATRE S. A review by STAGES stated I took great liberties with Poe and "captured the romantic desperation of "William Wilson," a tale of self-destructive double-identity."
For over 36 years, Gloria has performed, acted, composed music, and sang in the theatre.
Her newest performance piece, to be performed in September, is called WALKING IN El SALVADOR. Her chapbook about the atrocities in El Salvador in the 1980’s is forthcoming.
Gloria is originally from a small town in Illinois called Oglesby. Her Mother and Father still lives there and many of her friends. She moved to the Boston area in 1984. Gloria’s Father is a retired school teacher and her Mother painted. Gloria’s sister, Kellis, is a musician as well as her Brother-in-Law, Richard, who currently is in the Air Force and Nephew, Alexander.
Gloria works as a Social Worker with recovering addicts and freelances editing manuscripts and conducting workshops for writers.