Rhapsodomancy's Fifth Anniversary Reading, Sun. October 25th, 2009

SALVADOR PLASCENCIA ELOISE KLEIN HEALY WENDY C. ORTIZ ANDREA QUAID

Sunday, October 25, 2009*The 5th Anniversary of Rhapsodomancy!
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 (at) yahoo dot com. RSVP not required, but appreciated)
$3 suggested donation at door.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org

Salvador Plascencia was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised in El Monte, California. His debut novel, The People of Paper, was named a best book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Times, and has been translated into ten languages. He is the recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. His next novel, a shuffle roman, is about a time derailment, oceans, and shapeshifters.

Eloise Klein Healy, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Emerita, was the founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the author of six books of poetry. Her most recent collection, The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho, is from Red Hen Press. Ms. Healy directed the Women’s Studies Program at California State University Northridge and taught in the Feminist Studio Workshop at The Woman’s Building in Los Angeles. She is the co-founder of ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism/arts venture and founding editor of Arktoi Books.

Wendy C. Ortiz is a Los Angeles native. She is currently a graduate student of psychology and marriage and family therapy trainee. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Wendy was a 2007 and 2009 Writer-in-Residence at Hedgebrook. Recent and forthcoming publications include Spillway, Blood Orange Review, Palabra: A Magazine of Chicano and Latino Literary Art, Cranky, KNOCK, and Eclipse. She has read at various venues, including the West Hollywood Book Fair, The Knitting Factory, World Stage, the Echo Park Poetry Festival, and the first Ladyfest in Olympia, Washington in 2000. Wendy has been a creative writing teacher of Los Angeles youth in juvenile detention facilities, as well as a journalist, mudwrestler, library worker, and editor and publisher of a handbound literary journal. She received a B.A. from The Evergreen State College in 1995 and lived in Olympia, Washington for eight years before returning to Los Angeles. She is currently at work on various projects including a memoir and a poetry collection. Wendy is co-founder and curator of the Rhapsodomancy reading series.

Andrea Quaid co-facilitates the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and Reading Series at UCSC where she is a Ph.D. candidate in literature. Her work focuses on contemporary avant-garde movements, experimental writing, the urban city and gender.  She earned an MFA in creative writing with an emphasis on poetry, and her publications include The Alembic, aPlod, Carquinez Poetry Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, Fox Cry Review, Limestone, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Phantasmagoria, Prairie Winds, Rio Grand Review, South Carolina Review, Soundings East, West Wind Review, and Xavier Review.  She is the co-founder of the Los Angeles reading series Rhapsodomancy and co-editor of Lounge-Lit: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction by the Writers of Literary Cocktail and Rhapsodmancy.  In addition to teaching within the university system, she has co-created and directed creative writing-education outreach programs throughout the greater Los Angeles area.