Page Getz is an author, teacher, former journalist and activist from Kansas and California, where she reported for the Los Angeles Times and Pacifica Radio.
Many of her stories, essays and poems have appeared in literary journals and her unpublished novel, “After the Revolution We’ll All Wear Tiaras,” was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.
She lives with her family and many dogs in Vancouver, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Once called, “Anne of Green Gables on Acid,” she is not on acid, but she does love a good gable. She’s still recovering from the wayward youth and pathological idealism that inspires her work.
Her novel, “A Town with Half the Lights On,” is slated for release by Sourcebooks, Spring 2025.
KRAK RADIO
An idealistic reporter trying to escape addiction volunteers at a tree-hugging community radio station in North Hollywood, convinced she can stop the 2003 invasion of Iraq, as her own brother’s army battalion packs for Baghdad.
TV
STARDRIFT ROAD
An unorthodox family is forced to attend post-cult therapy among Kansas polygamists when they leave nine wives and nine husbands at their California commune on New Years Eve 1979.
The Story Store
Rainbow for Sale
The LEavening of Bernie the bagel
Coming Soon
NOVELS
After the Revolution We'll All Wear Tiaras
Jetta Edison is an obsessive-compulsive Buddhist stripper from Kansas who follows her idealism into the L.A. anti-war movement and ends up sharing a bunk bed in a commune full of flag-burning, tofu-eating communists and their dogs. Jetta’s descent into dissent becomes both her salvation and her destruction.
Goodnight Kansas
The marriage of Disco Kennedy and Cyrus Waylon is a sugary, reckless thing. It is a deep fried love, mystical, like funnel cake. The union seems as doomed as Goodnight, Kansas, a Jesus-drunk town in the grip of a drought or maybe the End of Days, depending on what side of town you’re on. That’s where Disco was born and where her bad taste and indiscretions transcends dysfunction to become music. Country music.
COMING SOON
WE INVENTED CRAZY
WE INVENTED CRAZY is a feature comedy and biography of the 1990s at a moment when half the zeitgeist is rehab-bound and the other half is doing the Macarena. When a closeted high school teacher is outed and fired, three idealistic riot grrrls sharing a jail cell are inspired to publish "The Rag," a feminist zine to take down patriarchy. But it’s 1990-something in Kansas and everyone they know is vaguely suicidal, vaguely gay and un-vaguely strung out on speed.
