Fran Varian is a writer, performer, activist and late stage lyme disease, babesia and bartonella warrior. She is also a proud Femme who loves her community and misses the SF/Bay like mad, but has found tremendous reasons to love living in the South, where she relocated to in 2007 for health reasons. 10 years ago she was a poetry slam star, for roughly 14 1/2 minutes. Since then she has performed and read at dive bars and prestigious art festivals along the West Coast. Her poetry has been published on-line at: Lodestar Quarterly. Some of her essays appear on-line at ww.hipmama.com, and some of her essays appear in the Michelle Tea anthologies: Without a Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class, and: It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style. She also has an essay published in the upcoming anthology: Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by the formidable S. Bear Bergman and Kate Bornstein, about which she is very excited. She has recently been made an associate editor of the fabulous on-line magazine Synchronized Chaos: http://synchchaos.com/, about which she is also very excited. Perhaps the best thing she can say about herself is that in the face of catastrophic medical crisis and bankruptcy her beautiful community - comprised of all kinds of people and many, many different varities of beautiful queers, rallied together, and continues to rally to save her life with financial donations, inspiration, jokes, advocacy, frilly gifts, amazing visits to visit her in the South and LOVE. And this is really the only accomplishment in her life that matters at all. Well, this and the fact that she loves back. Tremendously so.

Fran has late stage Lyme disease. Please visit www.helphealfran.org for info or to join Fran Varian's Lyme Fighting Army.

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