Flight is the theme for the October 14 reading. 7 PM, Studio 333. $5. You won’t want to miss the following authors read from their work.
Elizabeth Bernstein is the founder and editor of The Big Ugly Review, an online literary magazine that showcases fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, music, and short films. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine, the San Francisco Bay Guardian (fiction contest winner), Eleven Eleven magazine, the North Atlantic Review, and other US and international literary journals. Her plays have been produced in several venues, including the Exit Theater, The PlayGround, Impact Theatre, and Fringe of Marin. She works out of the San Francisco Writers Grotto, where she edits books and teaches short story workshops.
Ianthe Brautigan. I was born in San Francisco at the tail end of the Beat Era, so I feel fortunate to remember a quieter, less crowded, more artistic city; however, San Francisco will always have a special place in my heart. Now I live in Northern California with my daughter, and my husband, Paul Swensen, who is a producer, director, and amateur chef. We love to have friends come to our house to eat, laugh, and tell stories.
Recently, I had a serious brush with ill health, which changed my prospective on life. Lolly, my little dog, and I spent months sitting quietly together and going for little walks because I was too sick to do much else. (She is lying next to me as I write this.) With lots of help from wonderful doctors and my family and friends, I got well. I am very lucky. Now I am trying all sorts of new things, I am finishing up a novel and working on a documentary with my husband. My memoir, You Can’t Catch Death (St. Martins Press) has been translated into Swedish, German, and Russian, as well as, being optioned by a major motion picture company. I have also been published in Confrontation, The Antioch Review, and other publications. I teach at Sonoma State University in Hutchins, and at Santa Rosa Junior College.
Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of four works of fiction, most recently The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an “inspired, lyrical novel.” He is the recipient of the PEN/O’Henry Prize for Short Fiction, the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library. Greer currently lives in San Francisco, at work on his next novel.
Other titles include: How It Was For Me (2000), The Path of Minor Planets (2001), and The Confessions of Max Tivoli (2004), as well as the following anthologies: PEN O. Henry Prize Stories 2009, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, The Book Of Other People, and The Show I’ll Never Forget.
Scott Landers is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. His short stories have appeared in a number of small literary journals. His debut novel, Coswell’s Guide to Tambralinga, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2004, and sold well over 15 copies. Currently he works as a technical writer and instructional designer, and lives, with great trepidation, in north Sonoma County.
Janet Thornburg’s short stories have appeared in Carve Magazine, The Distillery, In The Family, Lumina, The MacGuffin, Phantasmagoria, and Phoebe. Rhubarb Pie, a collection of her short stories, was published by Thunderegg Press in 2005. In addition to writing fiction, she has written and performed seven solo shows, and her poetry has appeared in Womanthology, A Collection of Colorado Women Poets and Most of the Holes are Occupied: A Santa Fe Anthology. She lives with her two children in San Francisco, where she teaches at City College.
Olga Zilberbourg. I am a fiction writer and editor traveling between San Francisco, CA and St. Petersburg, Russia. My second Russian-language collection of stories was published in September 2010 by St. Petersburg-based Limbus Press. In English, my stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine, Alligator Juniper, J Journal and other publications. I am an associate editor at Narrative Magazine and a regular participant of San Francisco Writers Workshop. I blog about travel and writing on my website.
