About
Page Getz (she/her) is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia with an emphasis in screenwriting and fiction. She's a former journalist and social justice activist from California, where she worked as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Weekly, Free Speech Radio News and Pacifica Radio. Before that were the dark years in Kansas, which drove her to comedy.
Eleven of her stories, essays and poems have been published in literary journals and her unpublished novel "After the Revolution, We'll All Wear Tiaras" was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She wrote two feature comedies through the UCLA Screenwriting Professional Program before dropping out of Hollywood to be an activist. Among her causes were the anti-war and anti-racism movements, labor and LGBTQ+ rights.
She used to be edgy. Now she writes about it in Hello Kitty pajamas, listening to Christmas music under a pile of dogs and kids. Her work speaks from that subterranean invisibility of screaming fringes, reconciling themes of socialism, mysticism, synesthesia, queerness, small towns, diaspora, classicism and the neurodivergent dialectics of joy. She loves penguins and socialism and she's still recovering from the pathological idealism and wayward youth that inspires her work.