Why There Are Words presents Chances on February 14, 2013. Don’t take chances — get to Studio 333 at 7 pm when doors open for your seat. You won’t want to miss these readers. $10. Bring extra cash for books and booze.
Stacy Bierlein is the author of the story collection A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends and a co-editor of the short fiction anthology Men Undressed: Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience. Her award-winning anthology of international fiction, A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection, is used in university classrooms across the country. She is a founding editor of Other Voices Books and the Morgan Street International Novel Series. Her articles about writing, publishing, and the arts appear on various websites, including The Rumpus. She lives in Southern California.
Daniel Coshnear works in a group home, teaches writing in a variety of Bay area and North Bay university extension programs, and is the author of two collections of stories: Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) and the brand new Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kellys Cove Press 2012).
Syda Patel Day is the author of a novel, A Waterless River, forthcoming from Norton. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was co-director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Law Clinic, where she won a Newberry Award, and the prestigious degree-end Lemkin Prize for excellence in legal writing. The Holtzmann Fellow at Yale University, she also won the Mary Cass Award for poetry. She taught law as the Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School and was awarded the Coker Fellowship for teaching at Yale Law School. She’s won numerous awards, fellowships, and grants for her creative writing, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, a Steinbeck Fellowship, a Story Magazine Prize, fellowships and residencies at Djerassi Center for the Arts, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She has taught literature at the Urban School of San Francisco and U.C. Berkeley. She was a founder of Root Division, a community arts organization in the Mission district of San Francisco, was Co-Director of the Film Institute for Social Change, and was Vice President of Content at EdVantage and StudySync, an international education company, division of Bookhead Ed, Inc. and Houghton Mifflin. She is currently the Lucy Grealy Scholar at Bennington College Writing Seminars.
Kerry Donoghue‘s short stories have appeared in Southern Gothic Shorts, The Queen City Review, The Furnace Review, and The Black Boot. Two other stories have been published and illustrated by The Fiction Circus and the Pilot Project, one of which was nominated for the 2009 Pushcart Prize. She holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco and can be found biking around SF with her husband or on the hunt for donuts.
Marian Palaia lives mostly in San Francisco but sometimes in Missoula, Montana, and is currently a John Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She received her MFA from The University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she was awarded the 2012 Milofsky Prize and nominated for an AWP Intro award. “Củ Chi,” the first chapter of her novel Don’t Let Them Take You Back Broken, was published in the fall 2012 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize.
Jordan E. Rosenfeld is author of the debut novel of psychological suspense, Forged in Grace, forthcoming from Indie-Visible ink in 2013, and the writing guide Make a Scene. Her work has appeared in Night Train, The Pedestal, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Petersburg Times, Smokelong Quarterly, and on KQED Radio’s The California Report. She teaches online writing classes.
Ryan Van Meter is the author of the essay collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now (2011). His work has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Normal School Magazine, Ninth Letter, and Fourth Genre, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009. A recent finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he has also been awarded residencies by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
