About Zora
BIO: Zora-Lux Burden Zora von Burden is a poet, writer, and journalist who was raised and still resides in San Francisco. She is the author of four books of poetry: The Hidden Chamber, The CF Hotel, A.D. and The Evening Hybrids, all of which can be found exclusively at City Lights Books. For two decades she has written a column for the California Herald and San Francisco. Additionally, her autobiographical writing narrates Geoff Cordner’s feature-length film Portraits from the Fringes, featuring Iris Berry and Lydia Lunch. A segment of this film was adapted into a short entitled Hotel Hopscotch, which showed at national film festivals like the Bend Film Festival where it was introduced by John Waters and San Francisco Doc Festival. It also aired on the BBC and won a Lucid Underground Film Festival Award. She is also guest writer for various periodicals like RE/Search Publication, The Wild Hunt and literary journals.
Zora Burden’s literary work can be found at many learning institutions, libraries and museums around the world including: The Getty Institute, Harvard University, Yale University, MoMA- Museum of Modern Art New York, Brown University, Mills College, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Oakland Museum of California, The London Institute of Contemporary Arts, Columbia University, Bowdoin, MIT, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library.
Zora Burden’s literary work can be found at many learning institutions, libraries and museums around the world including: The Getty Institute, Harvard University, Yale University, MoMA- Museum of Modern Art New York, Brown University, Mills College, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Oakland Museum of California, The London Institute of Contemporary Arts, Columbia University, Bowdoin, MIT, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library.