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E. Amato

writer, performance poet, filmmaker, curator/organizer

About Me

E. Amato is a Berlin-based published poet, award-winning screenwriter, and established performer, with three poetry collections released by Zesty Pubs: Swimming Through Amber, Will Travel, and Daughters of Invention. She has been featured in KCET’s LA Letters as one of five emerging female writers. Her poetry is included in Tia Chucha Press’s The Coiled Serpent: Poets Arising from the Cultural Quakes & Shifts of Los Angeles, Voices from Leimert Park Redux: Los Angeles Anthology, and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets.

My Jazz Story

I love jazz because... I was first exposed to jazz... I met [musician name]...too many to count... The best show I ever attended was... The first jazz record I bought was... My advice to new listeners... Or whatever else you have in mind.