TrISH SIMONE WILD: Bio

Trish Simone Wild (aka TS Wild) is the name I now using. I have been known by many names over the years.  I was young at first and running away from my biological last name as a result of a shitty father,  taking on the names of various men I have legally married over the years (and still care for very much). A couple of them offered to let me keep the last names as long as I'd liked which I did for a while. Some still offer theirs to use if I'd like.

After some experimenting for a few years, I've opted for a name created from my own evolution: Trish Simone Wild 
Trish - my long used nickname: from my mom-given name of Trisha Lee
Simone - the feminine French/Italian spelling of my maternal grandmother's family name of Simon - meaning ‘to hearken'
Wild (from my dearly departed and fabulous friend Jade Wild, who helped me to rewild).
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I have written many different bios over the years, trying to sum myself up in a few lines, in a manner acceptable to whatever world I was mostly living in at the time. I've since decided all of those experiences are a part me.
 
From ages 15 until 21, I most often worked in the hospitality industry as a server, cocktail server or bartender. I had also been an apprentice to several photographers in high school, taken some over-priced design coursework, and worked at Kinkos (now FedEx Office) so I had built up some useful skills. To keep my spirit and bank account going, I also began working freelance as a photojournalist, artist, designer, creative alchemist, etc. in 2005 and have since continued this work in various ways over the last 20 years.
 
During my 20s, I was in the military and government sectors, putting my skills to use in the Visual Communications and Public Affairs fields - while also trying to earn my degrees. I managed to do so, finally - earning my Bachelor of Arts in Visual Art & Art Education (K-12 License) from Fayetteville State University in North Carolina in 2012. I left the military/government sector completely in 2011. I then began exhibiting my artwork professionally while stringing as a photographer for The Fayetteville Observer and various publications between 2012 – 2018.

As I turned 31, I became a MOM, while also earning my Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest of Art in 2015. I taught K-12 arts education and integrated arts/STEAM while living in North Carolina from 2012-2018. These years also gave me many opportunities to venture further into photojournalism and event photography. During the years of 2011-2019, I had focused heavily in the visual and theatre arts as a exhibiting artist, artist-in-residence, consultant, etc. 
 
As an artist, I understood the divine as muse and inspiration. I’d always been quite interested in spirituality, and this had been an independent study of mine since about the 7th grade. I had heard "the call" from Source as early as 2015, and ignored it for a while at that time. Instead, I focused on veteran and community art projects, operating out of Fayetteville, NC until September 2018, when I lost my home, studio, practice, and mind for a little while to Hurricane Florence. ​
 
I moved to WA State in December 2018, and shifted focus to work in academia and non-profit, combining several part-time adjunct professor and non-profit positions into a full time paycheck. Answering Source's call, I began attending Seattle University's School for Theology and Ministry (STM) in 2019, studying counseling and spirituality. As the COVID-19 Pandemic ripped these already precarious fields to shreds from 2020-2021, my health also further declined. I left the professional arts, academic, and non-profit world in 2021 and took a sabbatical to focus on my healing, including attending a holistic mind-body-spirit inpatient program for chronic pain and mental health in the 2021.  
 
From 2022-2024, I have primarily focused on physical healing, working close to the land, raising chickens, working with horses, living off grid, and writing. I’ve also enhanced my skills as a mystic, medium, spell crafter, and developer of rituals and rites from an eclectic, European Shamanism, pagan path. Mostly I've sat under trees, attended my doctor appointments, wrote, rested, and healed enough to get to today. 

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