Babylon Salon
presents a special performance
Saturday, June 14, 2025
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
Kate Folk
[Sky Daddy; Out There]
“Audaciously imagined. Slyly executed. Surprisingly tender. Deliciously weird.”—Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch.
Kate Folk is an author, screenwriter, and educator based in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Sky Daddy, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025. Her story collection, Out There, was a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. In 2024, her feature screenplay adaptation of Out There was chosen for the annual Black List. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, and The Baffler, among other venues. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and Willapa Bay AiR.
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S.G. Browne
[Lost Creatures; Breathers]
“Sometimes mythic, sometimes strange, S.G. Browne’s Lost Creatures is a heartfelt collection of magic and monsters emerging in our world. Each tale can veer between beautiful, funny, honest, startling, surreal, and above all else, fantastic. Lost Creatures is ridiculously brilliant.” —John Hornor Jacobs, author of Southern Gods and A Lush and Seething Hell
S.G. Browne is the author of five novels (Breathers, Fated, Lucky Bastard, Big Egos, and Less Than Hero), two short story collections (Lost Creatures and Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel), and the heartwarming holiday novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus. Reviewers have called his books “refreshingly original,” “riotously funny,” and “supernaturally themed social satire with a heart.” He lives in San Francisco.
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Lauren Parker
[Spells for Success; Dark Way Down]
Lauren Parker is a fourth generation female breadwinner descended from male charlatans, and thus has grown up to become a very educated liar. She is a writer, zine maker, and visual artist and has written for the Toast, Catapult, and Autostraddle. Her work focuses on the intersection of class, queerness, and the occult. She teaches workshops on mediumship and poetry. She’s the author of the poetry collection We Are Now the Thing in the Woods(Bottlecap Press, 2023), Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, 2025), and Spells for Success (Simon Element, 2025). She has a newsletter, Do You Want to Do Some Witchcraft?
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Paul Flores
[We Still Be]
Paul S. Flores is a San Francisco artist of Mexican and Cuban-American descent who has built a national reputation for interview-based theater and bilingual spoken word. Flores appeared on Season 3 and 4 of HBO’s Def Poetry. His work has played across the United States and internationally in Cuba, Mexico, and El Salvador. Paul is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner. His debut book of poetry "We Still Be" on El Martillo Press recently won the 2024 American Book Award. He teaches Theater at the University of San Francisco and works as producer of Paseo Artistico at Acción Latina in the Mission District.
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Duane Horton
[No Hero Alone]
Duane Horton is a black queer fantasy writer who resides in Oakland. He believes in writing his intersection of identity into his fantasy stories to widen the cannon and so that folks who share his intersection can see themselves written on the page. Duane graduated with his MFA in Creative Writing in 2019 and since then has enjoyed his short stories being published in various literary magazines as well as the publishing of his first book - No Hero Alone. When Duane isn't writing or reading, he is either hosting a book club or playing with his kitten.
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