1. Steven Reigns was born on 1975 and is an American poet, artist and activist known for his poetry publications, his work as West Hollywood's first City Poet, his participatory art projects, his LGBT activism, and his scholarly work on Anais Nin.
36 Facts About Steven Reigns
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Steven Reigns graduated from the University of South Florida, where he wrote a bi-monthly column for TLW magazine, with a degree in Creative Writing.
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Steven Reigns has a Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University.
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Steven Reigns is a fourteen-time recipient of the Los Angeles County Department of Cultural Affairs' Artist in Residency Grant.
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Steven Reigns was elected as West Hollywood's inaugural City Poet for a two-year term beginning in October 2014.
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Steven Reigns was selected as "Someone to Watch in 2015" by The Advocate Magazine.
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Steven Reigns was selected for a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship in 2020.
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Steven Reigns has cited public libraries and librarians as a major influence on his development as an artist and activist.
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Steven Reigns has campaigned in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and queer programming in libraries.
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Steven Reigns recounted the experience in a Watermark Magazine article about National Library Week.
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Steven Reigns was the first to speak to the commissioners about their discriminatory policy at the library.
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Steven Reigns was Literary Director for The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Center of Tampa for two years.
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Steven Reigns has been keynote speaker at Rollins College, Stonewall Library, and at the American Library Associations Annual Breakfast.
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Steven Reigns worked as a certified HIV test counselor for over 10 years, testing more than 9000 people.
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Steven Reigns contributed to a panel with Los Angeles County on standards of care for HIV.
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Steven Reigns published a poem about the so-called AIDS "Patient Zero" Gaetan Dugas and in 2018 hosted an event at West Hollywood Council Chambers discussing Dugas' legacy.
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Steven Reigns participated in a staged conversation about Keith Haring with Ann Magnuson at The Broad for World AIDS Day 2022.
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Steven Reigns created The Gay Rub, a participatory art project in 2011 and has curated the project ever since.
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Steven Reigns has participated in several collaborative online projects, such as Heather Champs' Mirror Project and Anni Holm's Getting My Name Out There.
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Steven Reigns was a character in Hilary Goldberg's In The Spotlight.
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Steven Reigns's artwork has been shown in galleries throughout the USAincluding at The Advocate gallery part of Rainbow Gobblins exhibit in May 2007.
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Steven Reigns is an Anais Nin scholar and has presented at The Sapphire Symposium.
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Steven Reigns is President of the Board of the Anais Nin Foundation.
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Steven Reigns discovered Nin's writing at the age of sixteen and her work has had a profound influence on his career.
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In February 2008, Steven Reigns organized 'Anais Nin@105' at the Hammer Museum.
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Steven Reigns facilitated the 2010 re-release of a long out-of-circulation audio book by Nin.
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Steven Reigns loaned his rare 1949 pink vinyl version of Nin reading her prose poem House of Incest, recorded by Louis and Bebe Barron, to their son Adam Barron.
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Steven Reigns owns a large collection of Nin memorabilia and ephemera, including a copy of Marcel Proust's Albertine disparue, once owned by Nin.
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Steven Reigns organized and curated Anais Nin's Influence: Women who Knew Nin Talk About her Writing, Her Life and Their Friendship with Her at the West Hollywood Library in 2015.
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In January 2016, Steven Reigns co-produced an event at Antioch University Santa Barbara, The Allure of Anais Nin.
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Steven Reigns began by teaching to LGBT youth groups across the United States, followed by workshops for HIV+ people,.
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Steven Reigns has taught poetry to LGBT Seniors at Los Angeles LGBT Center for many years.
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Steven Reigns's poetry is included in Velvet Mafia, a poetry chapbook on gay and lesbian response to war, Outside the Green Zone.
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In June 2008, Steven Reigns edited the anthology My Life is Poetry, a book of autobiographical poetry by gay, lesbian, and bisexual seniors created by those attending his workshops of the same name.
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In July 2015, Steven Reigns edited 3-Pack Jack, a three book set based on his 2013 curation of the Apt3F performance series at Akbar, Los Angeles.
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Steven Reigns' papers are held by the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries.