FORA.tv Speaker - Irene Borger

Irene Borger is a writer, teacher and director of the Alpert Award in the Arts. The former artist-in-residence at AIDS Project Los Angeles, and member of the faculty at University of California, Riverside, she has led writing workshops, devoted to witnessing and not-knowing, for art makers, and people living under conditions of extremity since 1990. Published in numerous national magazines and newspapers, she is the editor of From a Burning House and The Force of Curiosity. A long time meditation student, she is writing a book on listening.