The Eardrum
by The Ear Community
The Eardrum features interviews with artists and writers about their craft and is produced by the staff of Irvine Valley College's The Ear, a creative writing publication featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, photography and visual art from Orange County and beyond.
Episodes
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S1E19 - Emily Ryan of Emily's Sassy Lime
Episode Notes Formed by Emily Ryan and sisters Wendy and Amy Yao, who met as teens in Irvine, California, Emily’s Sassy Lime (1993–2001) was a garage-punk rock band. Considered an essential part of the early riot grrrl movement, their scrappy punk sensibility and creative resourcefulness…
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S1E18 - brattyxbre
Episode Notes Bre is a Black and Polynesian artist and zine maker based in Long Beach, CA. After receiving her B.A. in English, Creative Writing in 2019, Bre ventured off into freelance work that involved commissions for popular brands and celebrities like Cricut, Manic Panic, and…
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S1E17 - Erick Aguinaldo
Episode Notes Erick Aguinaldo is a spoken word poet, professor, a father, brother, fighter, and lover. He was born in LA and raised in the IE. He has some degrees from some fancy universities but has learned the most from his community. From the walls of formal education to the forced segregation...
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S1E16 - Ian Campbell
Ian Campbell is an artist and photographer from Southern California. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Imaging from Art Center College of Design in 2012 and continues to use his skills to tell visual stories about subcultures, musicians, artists, and other ideas surrounding...
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S1E15 - Sophie Stava
Episode Notes Sophie Stava received her BA in English literature from UC Santa Barbara. She currently resides in Southern California with her family. COUNT MY LIES is her debut novel. A read-in-one-night psychological thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to…
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S1E14 - Lee Herrick - California's Poet Laureate
Episode Notes Lee Herrick is the California Poet Laureate. He is the author of four books of poems: In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems (Gunpowder Press, September 2024); Scar and Flower, finalist for the 2020 Northern California Book Award; Gardening Secrets of the Dead; and This…
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S1E13 - Lisa Alvarez
Episode Notes Bio: Lisa Alvarez’s poetry and prose have appeared widely including About Place Journal, Air/Light, Citric Acid, Huizache, Los Angeles Times, Santa Monica Review, and in anthologies such as Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (Norton)...
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S1E12 - Ashley Hernandez
Episode Notes Emmy Award-winning bilingual journalist and communications strategist, Ashley Hernandez, leverages over 15 years of experience to deliver impactful results. At CBS News, she currently leads creative and editorial strategies, reaching an audience of 15 million+ through social media...
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S1E11 - Eliza Fisherman
Episode Notes Writer and Visual Artist Eliza Fisherman talks loneliness, connectedness, and the decision to devote one's life to art with Olivia. Eliza Fisherman holds a degree in Fine Arts, a BA in Creative Writing, and an MBA. She is a writer and a painter, whose body of work focuses on...
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S1E10 - Jebediah Dunn
> Jebediah Dunn is an emerging artist who explores and experiments across a plethora of mediums and themes. Most notably, he works in oil painting, drawing, sculpture, and larger scale installation work. Within these works, he explores the themes of identity, the natural world, and the…
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S1E9 - Sarah Mosqueda
Sarah Mosqueda covers Orange County food, art and culture for TimesOC. She most recently worked as a staff writer in Food for the Los Angeles Times. She also has several years of experience in the restaurant industry, including as a proprietor. Mosqueda earned a bachelor’s degree in…
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S1E8 - Sarah Bennett
Sarah Bennett @thesarahbennett is a professional journalist, editor, designer and publisher who experimented in the field for nearly two decades before entering education and advising student media. Sarah began her career at Santa Ana College, writing and editing for the award-winning el Don...
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S1E7 - Nunzio Randazzo
Episode Notes Nunzio Randazzo is a Los Angeles based screenwriter and filmmaker. He founded the acclaimed sketch group Boat Comedy, which headlined several major comedy festivals and has been honored as a Comedy Central Comics to Watch. He has written and starred in shorts that have twice gone to...
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S1E6 - Mary Camarillo
Episode Notes Mary Camarillo is the author of two award-winning novels: “Those People Behind Us” and "The Lockhart Women." Her poems and short fiction have appeared in publications such as the California Writer’s Club Literary Anthology, Inlandia, 166 Palms, The Ear, and the Sonora Review. Mary...
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S1E5 - Adalyn Ngô
Episode Notes Meet Adalyn Ngo, winner of the 2024 Linda Purdy Memorial Prize! From Garden Grove, CA, Adalyn is currently a graduate student at Brown University. She holds a B.A. in Government & Legal Studies and Education from Bowdoin College. From teaching English in Vietnam to working with the...
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S1E4 - Gustavo Hernandez - Orange County's Poet Laureate
Episode Notes Gustavo Hernandez is the author of the acclaimed poetry collection Flower Grand First (Moon Tide Press) and the chapbooks Form His Arms and Little Fleece (Ghost City Press). His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review, The Slowdown Podcast, and The…
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S1E3 - Squidward Started It All - The Composers Interview
Episode Notes Yep, you read that episode title right. In this episode, Bella interviews three musicians that made The Eardrum a complex, clever jingle that perfectly matches the feel of our publication. Alex, Justin, and Alex talk about inspirations, perfect pitch, and the driving forces that…
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S1E2 - Literacy Roundtable
Episode Notes In this episode, The Ear staff talk to each other about the importance of writing and reading in their lives. Ara, Aiden, Bella, Nadia, and John share insights, longings, and laughs over their experiences with mental illness, neurodiversity, and the importance of letting a good book...
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S1E1 - Marie Connors
Episode Notes “Marie Connors” - Episode 1 Bio: Marie Connors’ interest in poetry was sparked as an undergraduate in a creative writing class at the University of Memphis where she began publishing short lyric poems in the campus literary magazine and other small journals. After a decade working…
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About this show
The Eardrum features interviews with artists and writers about their craft and is produced by the staff of Irvine Valley College's The Ear, a creative writing publication featuring fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, photography and visual art from Orange County and beyond.
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