BERNARD COOPER
ELOISE KLEIN HEALY
DAVID HERNANDEZ
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Doors open at 7:00pm - 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.
$3 suggested donation at door. There will be a cash bar.
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Bernard Cooper is the author of five books, the most recent is the memoir The Bill From My Father (Simon & Schuster). Cooper is the recipient of the 1991 PEN/USA Ernest Hemingway Award, a 1995 O. Henry Prize, a 1999 Guggenheim grant, and a 2004 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in literature. His work has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best American Essays of 1988, 1995, and 1997, 2002, and 2008. His work has also appeared in magazines and literary reviews including, Harper's Magazine, The Paris Review, Story, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. Mr. Cooper teaches Creative Non-Fiction at Bennington College and at The Master of Professional Writing Program at USC.
Eloise Klein Healy is a lover of dogs, opossums, chocolate and coconut in combination, biographies, iPad apps, and poetry. She is currently working on her next collection, Wild Surmise: New and Selected Poems, which is forthcoming in Spring 2013. Arktoi Books, her imprint with Red Hen Press, is stocked with miraculous lesbian authors.
David Hernandez is the recipient of a 2011 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry. Hoodwinked, his third collection, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was recently published by Sarabande Books. His other collections include Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orchard Series, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press, 2003). His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Missouri Review, TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, and Poetry Daily. He is also the author of two YA novels, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches at the University of California, Irvine and poetry workshops at California State University, Long Beach. He lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt.
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