Jaz Persing
Bio
Jaz Persing is a writer, singer, and human living in Los Angeles. She works in television when she can. The rest of the time she's just looking for a dare-to-be-great situation, and trying to put a good dent in the world along the way.
Stories (5/0)
Big Sur Backtracking
In April of 2017, the situation had become untenable. I don’t know what I meant by the “situation,” exactly, but I think it was more akin to life and where it was eluding me. And the truth is, I’d been overdue for ocean therapy for some time. “You’re a Persing,” my father said once, “That’s what we do. We go, and it helps.”
By Jaz Persing6 years ago in Wander
- Top Story - April 2018
Love in the Time of POTUS 45 Top Story - April 2018
I’m drinking champagne alone in the Broadway Bar on the night of the Women’s March on Washington. I just left the Orpheum, where the Literary Death Match poets and readers declared hopes for daughters and tribute to mothers—and you could feel as much in the audience as on the streets of Downtown LA tonight that we’re all still flying high, giddy with celebration even though we know there’s a long four years ahead. But we’re not ready to let hope fade yet—people are still carrying their signs, and they’re wearing their homemade pussy hats, and I still haven’t changed my clothes.
By Jaz Persing6 years ago in The Swamp