User:Tijuanagringo

Wikipedia user Tijuanagringo is a native of California

who

was born in San Francisco bay and grew up in San Diego on the Mexican frontier.

His childhood years were mostly passed in the general area of La Mesa, a suburb of San Diego.

When he was thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, he delivered afternoon newspapers around the western slope of Grossmont summit and Mount Helix. He also delivered the Sunday morning paper to some of his customers.

As a teenager and young man, he trained as an actor, and began writing, mostly poetry. Because of personal discomfort with makeup, heavy costumes, and hot lights, he did not pursue acting as a career after reaching 23 years of age. Even before then, it was only an occasional vocation. However, after the turn of the millennium he began to participate in spoken-word poetry readings, conferences, and performances. During his mid-40s, he also sang in a lutheran church choir.

He studied theater, filmmaking, communication theory, literature, Spanish, writing, video and visual art at the University of California.

He has never ceased reading and writing.

He has worked in offices for twenty years, store sales for three years, typesetting and proofreading for three years, and acting and singing part-time during five or six different years. His longest single employer was the municipal government of the city of San Diego, for whom he was employed as a messenger, clerk-typist, law clerk, and secretary.

He lived in Los Angeles in 1968 and 1969; Washington D.C. from 1974 until 1976, Chicago from 1980 to 1981; most other years in San Diego.

He lived in Tijuana from 1999 to 2007, still rents a room there, and goes there part time. At present, however, he is living with, and caring for, his mother in San Diego.

He writes and translates poetry and scientific and commercial texts.

Some of his work, including translations of other poets, can be found at tijuanagringo.com

He worked on the translation project Un pasado visible for the instituto de investigaciones filologicas at UNAM (the Autonomous University of Mexico) of poems about the ancient art and archeology of indigenous Mexico -- it can be found at unpasadovisible.com