Babylon Salon
presents a special performance
Saturday, June 11, 2022
in The Sycamore's outdoor patio
2140 Mission St, San Francisco [16th St BART]
Come for drinks at 5 // Show starts at 5.30pm
Babylon Salon Summer '22 Lineup
featuring
Kate Folk
(Out There)
“Kate Folk’s stories inhabit otherworldly realms where exquisite language and beguiling characters excavate the very nature of love and existence.” -Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son
“An assortment of stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading, like a drawer full of the most beautiful knives—Kate Folk’s Out There goes onto my shelf of favorite collections.” -Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble
Kate Folk is the author of Out There, a story collection (Random House '22). She has written for publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, One Story, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva. Recently, she was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco.
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Katherine Seligman
(At the Edge of the Haight)
“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to see, even if we walk past it on sidewalks every day. At a time when more Americans than ever find themselves at the edge of homelessness, this book couldn’t be more timely.” —Barbara Kingsolver
Katherine Seligman is a journalist and author of At the Edge of the Haight, which won the PEN/ Bellwether Prize. She has been a reporter at USA Today, the San Francisco Examiner and a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine. Her work has been featured on NPR, in Life, Redbook, The Sun Magazine, the anthology “Fresh Takes,” Best American Essays, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco.
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Kathleen J. Woods
(White Wedding)
“Like the nameless woman who wanders through White Wedding, teasing attendees out to the threadbare ends of perversion and desire, Woods’ prose walks the razor’s edge between fantasy and horror. Not a word is wasted. Slick, precise, and moving with practiced skill, the writing will dare you to look away—only to discover your eyes held cunningly in the writer’s hand, in an instant to be popped into her mouth. This is a dark, twisted, and delicious book.”
—Meng Jin, author of Little Gods
Kathleen J. Woods earned an M.F.A in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she served as Managing Editor for the journal Timber. She was a 2018 Writers Grotto fellow and is a two-time Tin House alum. Her stories and essays have appeared in Literary Hub, Bitch, Western Humanities Review, Bartleby Snopes, Apeiron Review, and others. White Wedding is her first novel.
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Rita Chang-Eppig
(Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea)
Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her novel about the infamous pirate queen of the South China Sea is forthcoming in 2023 from Bloomsbury. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2021, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Writers Grotto, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. She is represented by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary Management.
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Jennifer Lewis
(The New Low; Red Light Lit)
Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and the publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low, will be released in October 2022 by Nomadic Press, where her short story, "New Low," was the winner of the Bindle Award in 2018. In 2020, she won the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction award for "Put a Teat in It." She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. She teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
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in partnership with our friends
The Booksmith
in their new location at 1727 Haight Street, San Francisco
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