Sunday, December 7, 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
Recipient of the 2004 Ferro-Grumley and Violet Quill awards for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors (Harrington Park Press), Trebor Healey is also the author of a collection of poems, Sweet Son of Pan, (Suspect Thoughts, 2006), as well as the recently-published A Perfect Scar & Other Stories (Harrington Park Press, 2007). He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Manic D Press, 1994) and co-edited (with Amie M. Evans) Queer & Catholic (Routledge, 2008). His short fiction and poetry were nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize. Trebor lives in Los Angeles. www.treborhealey.com.
Jillian Lauren's memoir Some Girls will be published by Plume/Penguin in the Spring of 2010. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in Flaunt Magazine, Pindeldyboz Magazine, Opium Magazine,The Chiron Review, Society, Pale House: A Collective and in the anthology My First Time: A Collection of First Punk Show Stories. She has read at spoken word events in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, including Tongue and Groove, Talk, Talk, Talk and Words like Sugar. She has recently worked with directors as diverse as Steve Balderson, Lynne Breedlove and Margaret Cho.She is married to Weezer bass player Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles. Her website is www.jillianlauren.com.
Jerry Pyle is a writer and filmmaker whose work has been screened in film festivals all over the world. His video, Zavislost, for the Czech band, Post-it, spent eight weeks at number one on the Czech TV Ocko hitparada in the summer of 2006. He's written on film and music for weeklies like the Copenhagen Post and the Prague Pill and on the web for Provokator magazine. He's currently an editor at Eqal Entertainment. He has an MFA in Creative Writing in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University Los Angeles.
LaVonne Natasha Caesar was born in Canada and raised throughout South America, Europe, Mexico and various islands of the Caribbean. She is the recipient of Naropa University's Zora Neale Hurston scholarship and is currently completing her MFA at Naropa University. If you would like more information about her childhood, her past, her convictions or her general interests, you can buy her chapbook The Black Pussy Revolution Part 1 at www.lulu.com...it's kind of like a memoir.
