{"id":278,"date":"2025-05-05T19:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/?page_id=278"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:21:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:21:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\"Maura<\/div><\/div>

Maura\u00a0<\/span>H<\/span>arvey<\/h1>\n

A\u00a0 bilingual poet, author, and artist, Maura has lived in <\/span>California since 1950.\u00a0 She holds a PhD in Latin American literature from UC Irvine and has taught Spanish for over four decades. <\/span><\/p>\n

Inspired by her parents\u2019 love for languages and art, Maura has presented poetry readings and art shows in the United States, Venezuela, M\u00e9xico and Turkey. 1993 was a year of two publications: Poemas,<\/u><\/em><\/strong> a bilingual collection, published in Venezuela, and San Dieguito Heritage<\/u><\/em><\/strong>, a collection of vignettes of San Diego history. A book of both art and poetry, Color Recuerdo,<\/u><\/em><\/strong> came out in 2024. Maura\u2019s poetry has been published widely and she has served on the California State Poetry Society editorial board since 1999. <\/span><\/p>\n

Maura\u2019s passion for Hispanic culture\u00a0 began when she was chosen as an exchange student with a M\u00e9xico City family and spent teenage summers in the capital city; she has also lived for years in both Madrid and Montevideo. She was a founder of Taller del mar,<\/em> a monthly poetry workshop with members from Tijuana and San Diego. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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She maintains an art studio\u00a0 and collaborates with graphic artists from around the world. In addition to lifelong art studies in California, she studied painting and collage in Aix-en-Provence.\u00a0 She has exhibited\u00a0 in\u00a0 Northern and Southern California, in Victoria, Canada, and held an exhibit of 50 works in Nakkas Gallery, Istanbul,\u00a0 in a 3rd<\/sup> century Byzantine cistern.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maura uses colors and words to pay homage to her world, preserve memories and create connections.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maura\u00a0Harvey A\u00a0 bilingual poet, author, and artist, Maura has lived in California since 1950.\u00a0 She holds a PhD in Latin American literature from UC Irvine and has taught Spanish for over four decades. Inspired by her parents\u2019 love for languages and art, Maura has presented poetry readings and art shows in the United States, Venezuela,...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-278","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/278\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/mauraharvey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}