Featuring Nona Caspers, MK Chavez, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Shideh Etaat, Kevin Killian, Roberto Santiago, and Arisa White!
We aim to uplift and support the voices of the marginalized, the many, the queer. Join us for a glorious and joyous evening to celebrate the official San Francisco introduction to Foglifter, a truly unique literary journal and press.
The Lineup:
MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal will be released Fall 2016, both from Nomadic Press. She is co-curator ...
Featuring Nona Caspers, MK Chavez, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Shideh Etaat, Kevin Killian, Roberto Santiago, and Arisa White!
We aim to uplift and support the voices of the marginalized, the many, the queer. Join us for a glorious and joyous evening to celebrate the official San Francisco introduction to Foglifter, a truly unique literary journal and press.
The Lineup:
MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal will be released Fall 2016, both from Nomadic Press. She is co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival.
Arisa White received her MFA from UMass, Amherst. She's a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Post Pardon, Hurrah’s Nest, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection, you’re the most beautiful thing that happened. arisawhite.com
Kevin Killian lives in San Francisco. He has published three books of poetry, three books of stories, and three novels. In each category a fourth is imminent. In addition there will be a third volume of his Selected Amazon Reviews, and a second volume of Tagged, Killian's intimate color photographs of poets, artists, musicians, filmmakers--the whole creative class.
Shideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle, Jews in Iran, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe.
Roberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University, and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2016 Community of Writers Fellow, 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow, 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow, the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize, and his debut book of poetry was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Roberto writes and produces his own music, and likens himself to Tennessee Williams in a poodle skirt, Gloria Anzaldúa in culottes, and/or James Merrill in short-shorts. Currently, he works as an educator in San Francisco and lives in Oakland with a fiction writer and 15 year old cat that edits most of his poetry...whether he asks her to, or not.
Nona Caspers is the author of four books including Heavier Than Air, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has received a NEA Fellowship and an Iowa Review Fiction Award, among others. Stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Cimarron Review, The Sun. She co-edited with Joell Hallowell a nonfiction book Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century. She teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. www.nonacaspers.com
Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist for the Clark-Gross Novel award, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions.