Sunday, June 8, 2008
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:30pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com (RSVP not required, but appreciated)
$3 suggested donation at door.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org
Nina Revoyr was born in Japan, the only child of a Japanese mother and a white American father. She grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and from the age of nine, Los Angeles, and she received her MFA from Cornell University. Nina is the author of three novels, The Necessary Hunger, Southland, and The Age of Dreaming. Her second novel, Southland, was a BookSense 76 pick, won the Ferro Grumley and Lambda Literary Awards, and was one of the Los Angeles Times’ "Best Books of 2003." Library Journal has called her new novel, The Age of Dreaming, “Fast-moving, riveting, unpredictable and profound.” Booklist has said, “Rare indeed is a novel this deeply pleasurable and significant,” and Los Angeles Magazine writes that “Nina Revoyr…is fast becoming one of the city’s finest chroniclers and myth-makers.” Nina has taught at Cornell University, Antioch University, and Occidental College; and has worked for more than a decade in the fields of child welfare and public education.
Jason Bredle is the author of Standing in Line for the Beast, selected by Barbara Hamby as winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize, and A Twelve Step Guide, winner of the 2004 New Michigan Press chapbook contest. His most recent book, Pain Fantasy, was released by Red Morning Press in summer 2007. He lives in Chicago.
Louise Mathias grew up in England and Los Angeles, and currently splits her time between Southern California and South Bend, Indiana. She is the author of Lark Apprentice, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize, and published by New Issues Press in 2004. Her poems have been published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, Epoch, Boulevard, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly and The Journal. Poems from her new manuscript-in-progress The Traps, appear or are forthcoming in Triquarterly, Massachusetts Review, and Pool. She was educated at the University of Southern California, and works as a fundraising consultant.
Dennis Fulgoni's stories have appeared in Parting Gifts, Quarterly West, the Colorado Review, and New Stories from the Southwest. He was the winner of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a James Kirkwood Award for Fiction through UCLA, and a Special Mention in the 2008 Pushcart Prize. He teaches high school English at John Marshall High School and is currently enrolled in the MFA program at Antioch University Los Angeles.
