K A R A M A C H O W S K I
About the Writer
Kara Machowski began her career interning as an assistant to producer, Merideth Porte, at Miami's WLRN television program, ArtStreet.
Kara worked as a photographer while completing her degree in Journalism. She began painting in 2009 with acrylics. Her paintings were shown all over Florida and in 2011, her acrylic, "Make Love, Not War" was featured at ArtBasel in Miami.
In 2017 Kara aided in the relaunching of Chicago Scene Magazine, an insider's guide to Chicago. In 2018 she began managing and contributing to Arizona food blog, Phinally Phoenician.
She is currently working as a freelance writer based in Arizona, where she reports on local and international issues and has recently focused her reporting on Coronavirus. She is a professional researcher and a burgeoning historian. Her favorite subjects to study are theology, American history, WWII, civil rights, art, and has recently delved into philosophy and Greek history.
Kara holds an honors degree in Journalism from Broward College and graduated summa cum laude in Creative Writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Her completed novel, To Cage a Wild Thing, is a historical coming-of-age tale about struggling in Northern Florida during the Great Depression.
Her poems, Wet Sunlight and Silver Fox were featured in Habitat's debut magazine.
Much of her fiction is based on her personal struggles with family, suicide, addiction, physical and sexual abuse. She is a pioneer in the #MeToo movement and believes in equal rights for all of humanity.
Kara is currently working on a Southern gothic series about a detective who is solving a set of murders post-hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Favorite Novels and Authors
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Florida, Lauren Groff
Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreas
Bitter Orange, Claire Fuller
Play it as it Lays, Joan Didion
Jesus Boy, Preston Allen
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
Razor Girl, Skinny Dip, Carl Hiaasen
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Professional Expertise
Coronavirus
I began tracking the spread of coronavirus and calculated a projected trajectory of the spread and deaths that would occur from little to no social distancing or preventative procedures. Since then I have written dozens of articles that relate to Covid-19 including my projections.
Profiles & Interviews
These long-form pieces explore a select artist's work and their philosophy from a variety of perspectives, examining their craft and creative mindset, as seen in this interview with Dr. Alexandra Solomon, author of Loving Bravely
Event Criticism
My experience with event criticism began during my internship at WLRN. I was tasked to seek out art events in our community to write up and advertise during commercial bits. I began to understand how important gatherings are for a community to only flourish but also as a reflection of its inhabitants. This spans to the businesses that are in it. Informing the public to keep up these imperative social interactions is what keeps them going.
Social Criticism
Our society affects the way that our world operates and that starts within our very own community and expands outwards. These essays focus on our current social issues along with how our culture interacts with them.
Food Criticism
I can recall my first years of college, where I would fashion meals paired with wines and cocktails and was often referred to as the 'mother' of my friends. For me food is more than taste, it's the experience of not only those who consume the flavors but the chefs and bartenders who perfect them. I bring this idea with me into my experience and articles of restaurants from my review of
Sratlite BBQ to my interview with Jean Banchet Winner Benjamin Schiller
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