RADAR + LitCrawl presents
The 4th Annual Literary Reading Atop The Pool Table at The Lexington Club
Hosted by Michelle Tea
Juliana Delgado Lopera: Colombian writer/teacher/oral historian/dyke+queen activist residing in San Francisco better known for her array of secret love affairs with right wing women ranging from conservative enthusiast Sarah Palin to second wave feminist Ann Romney and, more recently, engaged to one of Michelle Bachman’s infinite collection of foster girls. Raised in Bo...
RADAR + LitCrawl presents
The 4th Annual Literary Reading Atop The Pool Table at The Lexington Club
Hosted by Michelle Tea
Juliana Delgado Lopera: Colombian writer/teacher/oral historian/dyke+queen activist residing in San Francisco better known for her array of secret love affairs with right wing women ranging from conservative enthusiast Sarah Palin to second wave feminist Ann Romney and, more recently, engaged to one of Michelle Bachman’s infinite collection of foster girls. Raised in Bogotá her stories have been performed at Action Fiction! And published in Forum, Revista Canto, La Revista. Juliana is currently working on an oral history project with Queer Latin@ Immigrants in San Francisco part of which is being published by SFWeekly. She's the Fiction Editor for Fourteen Hills and runs a Queer! Spanglish! zine with her partner called Plastic Panties. She holds a B.A in Gender and Women's Studies from UC Berkeley and is currently an MFA Candidate in Fiction at SFSU.
Ali Liebegott is the author of the award-winning books The IHOP Papers and The Beautifully Worthless. Her novel Cha-Ching! will be published by Sister Spit Books in Spring 2013. In 2010, she traveled across the U.S. by train to visit women poets for a project called The Heart has many Doors— those interviews are published monthly at The Believer Logger. In addition, she works with RADAR Productions to help run the only free queer writer’s retreat in existence, THE RADAR LAB; and, is the founder of Writers Among Artists, whose events and publications include Faggot Dinosaur and The Adrienne Rich Memorial Reading and Tattoo Extravaganza.
Raquel Gutierrez was one of the co-founding members of the performance ensemble, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP), a community-based and activist-minded group aimed at creating a visual vernacular around queer Latinidad in Los Angeles. Raquel also co-founded other queer women of color projects and Latino projects, Tongues, A Project of VIVA and Epicentro Poetry project. Raquel has published work in Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing (edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano), Los Angeles Weekly, Make/shift magazine, Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, and Izote Vos: Salvadoran American Literary and Visual Art (published by SF’s Pacific News Service).
Beth Lisick is a performer and the author of four books, including the NY Times bestseller Everybody Into the Pool. Her latest book, Yokohama Threeway, is forthcoming from Sister Spit press in fall 2013. She is also the co-founder of San Francisco’s Porchlight Storytelling Series.