Rhapsodomancy Announces the Writers Reading on Sunday, August 9th, 2009

TARA ISON ROBERT KRUT ALEXANDRA TEAGUE

Sunday, August 9, 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

*Due to unforeseen circumstances, David Ulin will not be reading on August 9. Please check back for a future date.*

 

Tara Ison's first novel, A Child out of Alcatraz (Faber & Faber, Inc.), was a Finalist for the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, "Best First Fiction."  Her new novel, The List (Scribner), was published in February 2007.  Her short fiction, essays and book reviews have appeared in Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Nerve.com, Black Clock, The Mississippi Review, LA Weekly, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, and numerous anthologies.  She is the recipient of a 2008 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a 2008 COLA Individual Artist Grant, as well as Yaddo fellowships, Pushcart Prize nominations, a Rotary Foundation Scholarship for International Study, a Brandeis National Women's Committee Award, a Thurber House Fiction Writer-in-Residence Fellowship, the Simon Blattner Fellowship from Northwestern University, and a California Arts Council Artists' Fellowship Award. 

Robert Krut is the author of The Spider Sermons (BlazeVOX, 2009).  His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals, including Blackbird, The Mid-American Review, Barrow Street, and more.  He teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara and lives in Los Angeles.

Alexandra Teague has an M.F.A. from the University of Florida and was a 2006-08 Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2008 and Best American Poetry 2009, as well as The Missouri Review, New England Review and other journals. Her first book, Mortal Geography, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, is forthcoming from Persea in April 2010. She teaches English at City College of San Francisco and lives in Oakland.