LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER TWIN CITIES 2023
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LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER TWIN CITIES
2023 CAST
Emme Corbeil
Emme Corbeil is a mother, partner, daughter, sister, auntie, friend, midwife, and soon-to-be grandma to identical twins! Mothering and midwifing have been part of Emme’s life for the past 31 years. She owns and runs a small home birth practice, Trillium Midwifery Care, and has helped hundreds of families welcome their babies at home. Emme never takes for granted the joy of having all three of her adult children and their partners living close by. Always on the lookout for awe-inspiring moments, Emme finds them almost everywhere — especially when walking around Minneapolis lakes, biking, hiking, traveling, and making art.
Anna Fox
Anna Fox is a Psychologist in private practice in Minneapolis. Writing and storytelling is a new venture for her, and she is excited to follow this interest beyond Listen To Your Mother. She has a wife and a 6 year old daughter she loves spending time with. When not exploring the infinite imagination-play her very spicy 6 year old demands, Anna enjoys being outside in any form, exploring alternative healing methods, interior design and renovation, and being with her loved ones. She also has two ridiculous cats named Saturday Bradley and Popsicle Susan.
Peachy Galindez
Peachy Galindez is a full time momma and lover of suburban Minnesota life. She is originally from Metro Manila where she worked in broadcasting as a news anchor, voice actor, and radio personality. 16 long years after scripting music countdowns filled with boy bands, Peachy’s writing is a little rusty but her mothering muscle is well-oiled with three kids and a Bichon Frise that keep her on-the-go. She is a master at thrifting and whipping up a Filipino feast in a jiffy. Peachy is living her dream of sharing an extraordinary ordinary life with her husband and their family.
Irna Landrum
Irna Landrum is a queer Black godmother and super auntie living in South Minneapolis. She is an essayist, political writer, and online campaign director. She is working on a series of essays dismantling the strong Black woman trope and investigating her family's history on southeastern Louisiana antebellum plantations. She owes a great deal to VONA Voices, the Givens Foundation, and the Loft, all places she has been a writing fellow. Irna loves adventure and mischief making with her partner and their six nibblings (nieces and nephews).
Rachel Nevergall
Rachel Nevergall is a mother, partner, writer, and maker living in South Minneapolis with her college sweetheart and their three kids. Words are her favorite artistic tool and she uses them regularly as a content creator for Twin Cities Mom Collective, on other online publications such as Coffee+Crumbs and Literary Mama, as well as on her own blog RachelNevergall.com. Rachel takes great delight in an impossible to carry stack of library books, the many layers to a well mixed cocktail, growing vegetables from tiny seeds, and obsessing over the complexity of a Taylor Swift lyric.
Amy Ogren
Amy Ogren is an English teacher, an Airbnb host, and a trained spiritual director. She once spent four weeks exploring the Boundary Waters and Quetico by canoe with three strong women. She won’t let a summer go by without swimming in Lake Superior, and she goes there whenever she can with her family and friends. She loves listening to a good podcast, cooking a beautiful meal, digging in the dirt, and savoring the written word. She lives in Northeast Minneapolis with her husband Joel, her sons Solomon and Asher, Rue the dog, and Pip the cat.
Liz Morris Otto
Liz Morris Otto loved telling and hearing stories of heroes and villains in her youth, as a storytelling competitor and coach. But it was her 20-year marketing career that taught her the transformative power of her craft. Liz brought well-deserved attention to dozens of pioneers – business leaders, social entrepreneurs, explorers, innovators, and artists – who have made our world a better place. Today, Liz proudly holds other titles – CEO of her family’s trucking company, community volunteer, gardening teacher, sheep farmer, wife, and mom to four children who provide abundant material for her own stories about the challenges and joys of motherhood.
Tseganesh Selameab
Tseganesh Selameab is a wife and mother to 3 creative and amazing girls all living in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is a public health doctor by day and a medical education disruptor at night.
Kate Shuknecht
Kate Shuknecht is a maker, mama, poet, grower, lover of hugs, books, baked goods, and cheese. Her work has been published in: Sleet; VERSUS; Poetry City, USA; and Water~Stone Review. She has performed in many reading series including: Talking Image Connection, Cracked Walnut, The Maeve’s Sessions, the Poetry Fort at Art-A-Whirl, and the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read. Kate grew up in rural western New York, and now lives in south Minneapolis with two kids, one husband, and one dog in a rainbow house surrounded by an ever-expanding garden.
Andrea Kaston Tange
Andrea Kaston Tange has been a professor of Victorian literature for more than two decades, first in Michigan, now in the English department at Macalester College. She has also been a bookworm since she was a little girl. Together, those facts explain why she absolutely cannot answer the well-meaning question: “what's your favorite book?” Her son started at Macalester this fall, and she lives with her husband and daughter in a Saint Paul house with an enormous front porch, surrounded by a garden full of peonies and roses and irises. She writes every day. She knows how lucky she is.
Lindsey Hammond Teigland
Lindsey Hammond Teigland and her husband, Jonathan, have two sons ages 7 and 10. They spend most of their time trying to keep up with these highly energetic youngsters and their master negotiation skills. Lindsey is honored to spend her career listening to people’s stories and serving the caretakers of the world in her roles as the Program Director of Saint Mary’s Counseling and Psychological Services MA program and as a psychologist in private practice. A people loving introvert, she likes to live dangerously on the edge of FOMO and overwhelm.
Cassie J. Williams
Cassie J. Williams, educator and writer. Having an extensive background in social justice, community and youth programming, she is currently a Labor Educator at Labor Education Service at the University of Minnesota. She has published her work in literary journals, performed and presented in slam competitions, schools, events, and local and national conferences. As a wife and mother of five children, Williams is currently sharing her journey of balancing (or not) being a writer, educator and mother on Instagram and Facebook under the name Poetess Unbound.
LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER TWIN CITIES
2023 EMCEES
2023 marks 10 years of LTYM Twin Cities and there are so many ways that this 10 year anniversary show is going to be so incredibly special! ONE of those ways is that one alumni from EACH of the past shows will be introducing one member of this new, extraordinary cast. These alumni will be sharing the emcee role to pass the storytelling torch from the first 100 LTYM Twin Cities alumni, to the next.
