Fourteen Hills 17.1 RELEASE PARTY
Be entertained! Eat! Drink! Dance! Win fabulous prizes!
Thursday, December 16th at 7PM
COFFEE BAR
1890 Bryant Street, San Francisco
(entrance at Mariposa and Florida)
(415) 551-8100
http://www.coffeebar-usa.com/
This is a FREE event, but you'll want to bring cash to get your copy of the book and to buy lots and lots of raffle tickets.
Readings by:
Jason Bayani, Maxine Chernoff, Stephen Elliott, Noah Gershman,
Kasper Hauser, Adam Johnson, Myron Michael, and Molly Prentiss
RSVP on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=153990664645308
JASON BAYANI is a recent graduate of Saint Mary's MFA program. He is a Kundiman fellow and a highly regarded veteran of the National Poetry Slam scene. He co-founded the Pilipino American poetry collective, Proletariat Bronze and has toured across the country, reading his work. He currently teaches at Saint Mary's.
MAXINE CHERNOFF chairs the Creative Writing Department at SFSU and is editor of New American Writing. She is the author of six collections of fiction and ten books of poetry, most recently The Turning (Apogee Press, 2009). Her co-translation of The Selected Works of Friedrich Hoelderlin won the 2009 PEN America Translation Award. She taught in Prague in the summer of 2010.
STEPHEN ELLIOTT is the author of seven books including The Adderall Diaries. He usually sends an email to The Daily Rumpus list five times a week.
NOAH GERSHMAN's apartment was let to the girl from Cincinnati. Then Gershman crossed the continent of Africa by car.
KASPER HAUSER is a San Francisco-based sketch comedy group comprised of Rob Baedeker, James Reichmuth, John Reichmuth and Dan Klein, co-authors of Obama's Blackberry; Weddings of the Times, and SkyMaul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From
A Plane.
ADAM JOHNSON is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and the Senior Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Gina Berriault Award, and an NEA Fellowship, he is the author of a short story collection Emporium (2002), and the novel Parasites Like Us (2003), which won the California Book Award. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, Harper's, The Paris Review, Tin House, and Best American Short Stories. The excerpt that appears in Fourteen Hills 17.1 is from his recently completed novel, tentatively titled: The Orphan Master's Son.
MYRON MICHAEL is a recording artist, writing teacher, Cave Canem Fellowship recipient, and proprietor of Rondeau Records. His words appear online and in The Harvard Review, Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds (City Lights, 2009), Tea Party, and Nanomajority. He is the author of Scatter Plot (chapbook, forthcoming), and co-author of Hang Man (Move Or Die, 2010).
MOLLY PRENTISS recently received her MFA in Creative Writing at the California College of the Arts and is now a resident writer at Workspace with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She has been published in La Petit Zine, Miracle Monacle, Plaid Review, The City Reader, and elsewhere. She is a co-director of an arts and writing collective called factorycompany that works to make more room for making. Her writings and drawings can be found at mollyprentiss.blogspot.com.