JERICHO BROWN
CHING-IN CHEN
SINA GRACE
EDAN LEPUCKI
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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
Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans and a B.A. from Dillard University, and he has served as poetry editor at
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. His poems have appeared in
Callaloo, The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, and
Prairie Schooner. The recipient of a Cave Canem Fellowship, two scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego where he teaches creative writing. Western Michigan University's New Issues Poetry & Prose published his first book,
Please. www.jerichobrown.com
Ching-In Chen is the author of
The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press), a novel-in-poems chronicling the life of an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman Fellow, Ching-In has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in
Tea Party, Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Iron Horse Literary Review, and
Water~Stone Review. www.chinginchen.com
Sina Grace is the author of the comic book series
Books with Pictures and
The Roller-Derby Robo-Dykes versus The Cannibals. His work has appeared in several prose and graphic novel anthologies. He illustrated
More Adventurous, the Rilo Kiley comic to the eponymous album; and also illustrated inserts and promotional material for Common Rotation, Finest Dearest, and others.
Cedric Hollows in Dial 'M' for Magic is his first novel. He lives in Southern California.
Edan Lepucki has published fiction in the
Los Angeles Times Magazine, CutBank, Meridian, Avery, Narrative Magazine, and the
Los Angeles Review. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a regular contributor to The Millions book blog. She is the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles, private writing school for the brave, enthusiastic and talented. She's currently at work on a novel.
