Yve
Chairez is a Chicana writer and poet living in the Texas Hill Country with her husband, three kids, and their
Boston terrier.
Despite writing reams of short stories from the tender age of five, and her first novel when she was ten, Yve grew up to study fashion design, but soon realized she hates sewing, and hates sewing at the insistence of other people even more. She moved to London shortly after and pursued plain, old-fashioned marketing instead, which was another of her bad ideas.
Yve worked in visual and fashion merchandising in Las Vegas for nearly a decade before stepping away to chase her number one passion instead, and to set a strong "follow your dreams" example for her kids. Now she blogs, queries her novel, and works from home as a copywriter.
When Yve is not working and writing, she's watching - observing the world with a side-eye and drink in hand. She travels religiously, hates all types of weather, and meditates like a mothafucker. Her tastes in everything (excluding food) gravitates towards the bewildering and delightfully strange; she's anxious for ways to explain the inexplicable, and used to find the mundane fascinating until social media came along and made the mundane aggravating.
Despite writing reams of short stories from the tender age of five, and her first novel when she was ten, Yve grew up to study fashion design, but soon realized she hates sewing, and hates sewing at the insistence of other people even more. She moved to London shortly after and pursued plain, old-fashioned marketing instead, which was another of her bad ideas.
Yve worked in visual and fashion merchandising in Las Vegas for nearly a decade before stepping away to chase her number one passion instead, and to set a strong "follow your dreams" example for her kids. Now she blogs, queries her novel, and works from home as a copywriter.
When Yve is not working and writing, she's watching - observing the world with a side-eye and drink in hand. She travels religiously, hates all types of weather, and meditates like a mothafucker. Her tastes in everything (excluding food) gravitates towards the bewildering and delightfully strange; she's anxious for ways to explain the inexplicable, and used to find the mundane fascinating until social media came along and made the mundane aggravating.
Her
writing, if you can stomach it, is bold, sometimes absurd, and often
sociopolitical; as a nod to, or compulsion of, her design roots, the cultural arts always inform Yve's plots, settings, or characters' lives. Also informing her works: she's a psychology fanatic and reads sociology textbooks just for fun. Currently, she is working on a literary fiction novel
exploring how two quite hilarious people from abusive upbringings turned into abusers
themselves, and a series of bizarre-travel books that may end up being
for children.
Criteria for Normalcy, Yve's first collection of short stories and poems, is out now through ALL CAPS Publishing. A portion of the proceeds goes to organizations dedicated to helping women, children, and minorities, particularly of the survivor set.
Contact:
@YveChairez
yve.chairez@yahoo.com
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Contact:
@YveChairez
yve.chairez@yahoo.com
follow on Goodreads
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