Babylon Salon

presents a special performance

Saturday, June 10, 2023

in The Sycamore's outdoor patio

2140 Mission St, San Francisco [16th St BART]

Come for drinks at 5 // Show starts at 5.30pm

featuring

Rita Chang-Eppig

(Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea)

“Epic yet intimate, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea brings to life the pirate queen Shek Yeung. Rita Chang-Eppig charts the journey of a brilliant and brave heroine who fights for the survival of her fleet-and her family’s-against a fascinating historical backdrop. A stunning debut.”

—Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her novel about an infamous Chinese pirate queen, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, is forthcoming in 2023 from Bloomsbury and has been selected as an Indie Next pick for June 2023 and an Indies Introduce pick for Summer/Fall 2023. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2021, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, Virginia Quarterly Review, One Story, 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.

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Nina Schuyler

(Afterword; In This Ravishing World)

“Afterword is so propulsive and mysterious I found myself speeding up, but at the same time so patient and well-observed, I had to slow down. Nina Schuyler has an outstanding sense of story. You fall into this novel and you stay there.”

— Peter Orner, author of Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin

Nina Schuyler's short story collection, In this Ravishing World, won the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections and The Prism Prize for Climate Literature and will be published by Regal House Publishing in 2024. Her novel, The Translator, won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize. Her nonfiction book, How to Write Stunning Sentences, is a bestseller. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the University of San Francisco.

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Toni Mirosevich

(Spell Heaven)

“Deeply evocative, Toni Mirosevich’s Spell Heaven is a compelling collection whose narrator ponders memory, time, and lost worlds. With lyrical insight, she explores the mystery and the margins, the people and places, of the hardscrabble seaside town where she and her wife have made a home. A gem.”

—Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City

Toni Mirosevich grew up in a Croatian-American fishing family in Everett, Washington. Along with her new collection of short stories, Spell Heaven, she’s the author of six previous books include Pink Harvest (MidList Press, First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award, Lambda Literary Award Finalist), and five books of poetry. She’s an alumna of MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and numerous writing residencies. Her writings are anthologized in Best Women’s Travel Writing, The Gastronomica Reader, Best American Travel Writing, AutoBioDiversity: True Stories from Zyzzyva, and elsewhere and have also appeared in many literary journals including North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. A former San Francisco Public Library Laureate she is currently the Poet Laureate of Pacifica. After early years working in various labor jobs she began teaching creative writing at San Francisco State University in 1991. She’s a professor emeritus at SFSU and lives with her wife in California.

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Keli Dailey

(Surviving San Francisco; MUNI Diaries)

Keli Dailey is a journalist and comedian. Some notable stops on her straight-news path include the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the TIME Asia bureau, and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. She also produces news comedy, including her "News Hangover" webseries supported by First Look Media and documentary-theater performances entitled "Surviving San Francisco." Keli teaches a media course at Mills College at Northeastern and Saint Mary’s College of California called “Can Comedy Save Democracy? Understanding and Making Comedy News.”

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and Babylon’s own dashing co-host

Dominic Lim

(All the Right Notes)

''A lyrical, romantic debut with tender, moving notes about Filipino American families and queer love stories…With a relatable queer protagonist, this uplifting book portrays the power of owning one’s truth. Heartfelt, poignant writing and iconic supporting characters boost Quito’s story. The friends-to-lovers trope is wonderfully accomplished, full of sweet yearning and perfect harmony.”

―Library Journal (starred review)

Dominic Lim’s stories have appeared in The Jellyfish Review, Ghost Parachute, and Solstice Literary Magazine (as a finalist for their Annual Fiction Contest). He is a member of the Writers Grotto and is a co-host of Babylon Salon. Dominic holds a Master of Music from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, is an alum of Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, and has sung with numerous professional early music and choral ensembles. As a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association he has performed Off-Broadway and in regional productions throughout the US. His debut novel, All the Right Notes, was recently released on June 6, 2023 by Forever (Grand Central Publishing/Hachette). He lives in Oakland with his loving and supportive husband, Peter, and their whiny cat, Phoebe.

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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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Free Admission!