Artist's Projects
Cary Tennis is a journalist, fiction writer, musician, singer/songwriter and poet from San Francisco best known for his popular Salon.com advice column “Since You Asked”, read by millions of fans worldwide. He is also a trained Amherst Writers and Artists workshop leader and holds workshops online and in person.
He has published numerous books of columns, among which are the “best-of” collection Since You Asked; and Citizens of the Dream, a collection of columns specifically about creativity. His latest nonfiction book of advice for writers is Finishing School, published by Tarcher/Penguin. He has been a columnist for The San Francisco Weekly, written for Spin, Details, Creem, and The San Francisco Examiner, and published fiction and poetry in numerous small journals including Fiction International and the Sun magazine. He has also played guitar in a punk band and ridden the streets of San Francisco as a bike messenger. He and his wife left San Francisco in 2015 and now live in Castiglion Fiorentino, a medieval Tuscan town between Cortona and Arezzo, Italy.
For more information on the other workshops of this tutor:
Testimonials
Poetry and Prose published in The Sun Magazine
Salon.com column archive 1999-2013
Profiles:
Los Angeles Times
San Francisco Chronical
