Babylon Salon Summer Reading 2007

A spirited opening night for San Francisco's rollicking reading series.

Featured Reader: David Booth

                                                                           David Booth with poet Mark Turpin
 

Silver-Tongued Performances by:

Jenn Reimer    Jennifer Reimer grew up in the borderlands of Southern California. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her poetry, fiction, and collaborations have appeared in Our Stories, the Raconteur Reader, Denver Syntax, Parcel, the Sink Review, the Denver Quarterly and 26. She's currently a graduate student in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of CA, Berkeley. She's the co-founder of Achiote Press.     

Drea Roemer   drea roemer is one of those rare Bay Area things indeed--a writer and a musician. in her spare time she fiddles around with words, her guitar strings, and her vocal chords. other such lucrative endeavors include cooking, dancing, and random acts of craft.

Tom Seaton

Laurie Doyle   Laurie Doyle has been a dancer, waitress, AIDS worker, prenatal educator, graduate student (more than once), school teacher, backpacker, mother, lover (ditto), wife, and health care trainer. At middle age, she ended her errant ways and succumbed to a life of writing. She is the author of Their Beautiful Bodies, a short story collection, as well as a variety of personal essays appearing in San Francisco area publications. Her work has been nominated for Best New American Voices. She is an editor at Watchword Press and co-founder of their annual Whole Story event. Laurie holds an MFA from the University of San Francisco, and teaches at UC Berkeley's College Writing Programs. She has no regrets.