Angela Vasquez-Giroux
Profile: Angela Vasquez-Giroux is a right-handed batting left center fielder on the league champion (Fall ball, lower division, 2009) Slugnuts. She has been a union organizer, canvasser, waitress, stay-at-home mother, reporter, bartender, pizza maker, barista, research assistant and writer. Angela attended Michigan State University where she met Diane Wakoski, with whom she continues to study. There she won three Jim Cash Poetry Awards – two first place – and the James D. Rust and Dorothy Yoshimori awards for her academic writing. Her e-chapbook, Letters to My Sister, was released by Revelator Press in April 2007 and has been downloaded over 890 times. Angela has been published by a handful of print and other small journals. When she isn't working, she tries to enjoy running, attempts to play soccer without incurring serious injury and continues to work on her opposite field power hitting. She learned everything she needed to know from her family, and in is love with three things: her daughter, her husband, and the Detroit Tigers. You can find her on Twitter @motheroflight.
Posts by Angela Vasquez-Giroux:
- Rounding Third: year one
- When asked to officiate a wedding, this is what a baseball fan comes up with
- Harry Potter and the evil empire
- Watching the watchmen
- Pandering with p-words
- What we talk about when we talk about ball
- Five ways of looking at Ryan Raburn
- Because even The New York Times noticed
- The case for Alex Avila
- 0-1
