Feature performer: KATE BRAVERMAN
Literary outlaw, iconoclast, and perennial raconteur, Kate Braverman is a decorated author of novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction. Her ground-breaking novel, Lithium for Medea, imbues a raw, dangerous world with her startling poetic sense. Her latest work, the Graywolf Press award-winning Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles, brings the same sensibility to memoir. The result is a genre-bending challenge to the form.
and Shannon Cain, a 2008 O. Henry winner, NEA Fellow, and Executive Director of Kore Press, an independent publisher of literature by women. She earned her MFA in 2005 from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and in 2006 was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories have appeared most recently in Tin House, The New England Review, and The Massachusetts Reveiw.
Corinne Loveland writes nonfiction because she believes in the power of the everyday. Regardless of what happens to us—be it shocking or simple—life as it occurs is artistically worthwhile. As a writer and as a photographer, Corinne aims to capture the nuances of life and portray them as art. Originally from the New Jersey Shore, Corinne now lives in Santa Cruz – a less crowded Jersey Shore with easy access to her favorite city.
Ann Ryles lives in Moraga , California with her husband and two daughters. Her fiction has appeared in Edifice, Wrecked, Stirring: A Literary Collection, and Clare. In 2008, she will receive her MFA from the University of San Francisco . Her literary obsessions are sexuality, marriage and motherhood, and the immoral impulse.
Raised in H.P. Lovecraft's
shadow in Providence, Rhode Island, S.J.
Sasken is a fiction writer whose idiosyncratic work has appeared in The
Farallon Review, Five Fingers
Review and a number of small press
magazines. She lives in San Francisco
with her husband and son.
Tim Foley, the editor of The Farallon Review, spoke about the magazine and introduced S.J. Sasken.
Ashley Nelson, from San Francisco Magazine.
