February's Featherless surprises and delights. On the lineup: Edward Gauvin, Kate Durbin, and Camille Roy. On February 10th, 2012, at 8 pm, join us at Stories Books & Cafe for a literary evening.
Bios to follow:
The winner of the John Dryden
Translation prize, Edward Gauvin has
received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the Fulbright Program, the
Centre National du Livre, and the American Literary Translators' Association.
His volume of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on
Paper (Small Beer, 2010) won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation
Award and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other
translations have appeared in Tin House, Subtropics, The Harvard Review, The
Southern Review, AGNI Online, and PEN America. The contributing
editor for Francophone comics at Words Without Borders, he translates
comics for Top Shelf, Archaia, and Lerner.
Writing under the name H.V. Chao, his fiction has previously been published in Epiphany, Nanoism, and Diet Soap. He is a first year fiction PhD student at USC.
Writing under the name H.V. Chao, his fiction has previously been published in Epiphany, Nanoism, and Diet Soap. He is a first year fiction PhD student at USC.
Kate
Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and
performance artist. Her books include The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), E!
Entertainment (Insert/Blanc Press Diamond Edition, forthcoming), Gaga Stigmata
(Zg Press, forthcoming), The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and, with
Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming).
Camille
Roy is a writer and performer of fiction,
poetry, and plays. Her book, Sherwood Forest came out in 2011 from
Futurepoem. She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative, a
book of essays by writers on their own experimental practices (CoachHouse). Her
books include Cheap Speech, a play, from Leroy, and Craquer, a
fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as Swarm
(two novellas, Black Star Series). Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions
(poetry and prose, from Kelsey St Press) and Cold Heaven (plays, from
Leslie Scalapino's O Books). She was a founding editor of the online journal Narrativity
(http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity). Roy
has taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at several
institutions, including San Francisco State University, California State
University SummerArts, and Naropa.
Exciting! Exciting!
