George Yatchisin

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About George Yatchisin

George Yatchisin is now retired, but he marketed only for the forces of good for a living. He can help create and promote brands through means both old fashioned (writing) and new (social media). George Yatchisin likes eating, drinking, reading, and writing. Therefore he has written for Edible Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Independent, Sunset, the California Review of Books, and KCET’s Food Blog. His other work includes essays and poems; it appears in I’ll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Nonfiction from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program; California Fire & Water: A Climate Anthology; Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies; and Clash by Night: An Anthology Inspired by The Clash’s London Calling. He is co-editor of the anthologies Big Enough for Words: Poems and vintage photographs from California’s Central Coast and Rare Feathers: Poems on Birds & Art. He has been a body guard for Jodie Foster, a walk-on with an avant garde dance troupe, a film programmer, a food competition judge, a writing teacher (from engineering to creative), a political activist, a textbook co-author (Writing for the Visual Arts), a bassist in a band, a 5x league winning fantasy baseball manager, a union local president, a homebrewer, a pr flack helping run an Angelina Jolie red carpet event, a half marathoner, a grader of GMATs for ETS, a DJ, a corn detassler, an escort van driver, a rock journalist. Read his work at food writing (georgeeats.com) and poetry (georgeyatchisin.com) and follow him on Twitter @GYatchisin.