As per last night's announcements, here's details of tomorrow night's reading.
Love 'n' hugs, Cheryl >SH/SLF Rapid-Fire Reading >Wednesday, May 10, 7 pm >569 Valencia Street between 17th and 16th. >Refreshments will be provided. >Suggested donation: $5-$15 > >Directions: >Public transport is ideal. Valencia St. Books is right near the 16th St. >BART station and lies on or near several bus lines. There is paid parking >in the garage at Hoff and 16th (between Valencia and Mission) and >another garage on 21st between Valencia and Mission. > >Program Participants: > >Pat Murphy's writing has won numerous awards including the Nebula Award >and the World Fantasy Award. Her work ranges from scientifically accurate >science fiction to psychological fantasy to magic realism. Her >San-Francisco-based novel, _The City Not Long After_, has recently been >reprinted by Firebird Books. She is currently working on a novel for young >adults titled _Wild Girls_. Her favorite color is ultraviolet. > >Heather Shaw's short fiction has appeared in such fun places as >_Polyphony_, _Strange Horizons_, _Fortean Bureau_ and the anthology _Nine >Muses_. Her short story, "Single White Farmhouse" made the Locus >Recommended Reading List earlier this year and is forthcoming in Hartwell >and Cramer's _Year's Best Fantasy 6_. She co-edits the literary zine >_Flytrap_ with her husband, Tim Pratt. They live in Oakland with the >requisite two cats. > >Tim Pratt's stories have appeared in the Best American Short Stories, The >Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and other nice places. His first novel, >The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, appeared in 2005, and his next story >collection, Hart & Boot & Other Stories, will be out in early 2007. > >Charlie Anders wrote a novel called Choir Boy and co-edited the >forthcoming anthology She's Such A Geek. She publishes other magazine and >hosts the Writers With Drinks series. > >Keyan Bowes is the key-name of a Bay Area author and poet who has been >published in Strange Horizons. > >Jed Hartman is Senior Fiction Editor for _Strange Horizons_. His fiction >and nonfiction have appeared or will soon appear in _Clean Sheets_, _Wet_, >_Strange Horizons_, _Blowing Kisses_, _Flytrap_, _Fishnet_, and _All-Star >Zeppelin Adventure Stories_. For more about him, see his website: >www.kith.org/logos. > >Liz Henry: bio forthcoming (http://liz-henry.blogspot.com/) > >Vylar Kaftan's work has appeared in _Strange Horizons_, _Lenox Avenue_, >and _Raven Electrick_. She attended Clarion West in 2004, and currently >volunteers as a mentor for young writers through the Absynthe Muse >program. Her hobbies include making jewelry, preparing for a major >earthquake, and discussing philosophy with the neighbor's cat. Visit her >website at www.vylarkaftan.net. > >Corie Ralston is a scientist by day and a science fiction writer by night. >She has published a dozen or so short stories in various venues: some >big, some little, some no longer existent. She is an editor at The >Internet Review of Science Fiction. For all the gory details, check out: >http://www.sff.net/people/cyralston/. > >Jeremy Adam Smith's nonfiction, fiction, and poetry has appeared in >Fourteen Hills, Flytrap, The Nation, Other Magazine, San Francisco Bay >Guardian, Strange Horizons, Watchword, Wired, and numerous other >periodicals. He blogs about the politics of parenthood at >daddy-dialectic.blogspot.com; pop culture and politics at >www.othermag.org/blog.php; and media democracy at >jeremy-adam-smith.blogspot.com. > >Lori Ann White's work has appeared in "Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine," >"Analog Science Fiction and Fact," and "Aeon Speculative Fiction," among >other publications. She has worked her way up to "Polyphony" and will >shoot for "Zoetrope" within a year or two. > >Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of _Bodies in Motion_, a collection of >linked Sri Lankan-American immigrant stories, editor of _Aqua Erotica_, >and author of _A Taste of Serendib_, a Sri Lankan cookbook (among others). >She co-founded _Strange Horizons_ in 2000, and served as editor-in-chief >for two years. Mohanraj is the recent recipient of an Illinois Arts >Council Fellowship in Prose, and serves as the executive director of the >Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org). She lives in Chicago >and teaches in the MFA Program at Roosevelt University. Cheryl Morgan Emerald City: Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Reviews [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.emcit.com/ UK: 07742 196 331 US: (650) 722 1413 Skype: cherylmorgan _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
