August is on!
And it’s hot tonight. We have
Justin Huang, Katie Jacobson, and Anne Shaw reading on August 10th,
2012. We go on at 7:30pm at Stories
Books in Echo Park, as always, hang out and buy a book or a most delicious iced
coffee.
The authors:
Justin Huang is an
editor and producer based in Los Angeles. He is second-generation Taiwanese
American, born and raised in sun-kissed Southern California. He studied English
literature and writing at Pomona College and Oxford University. He's a featured
blogger on the Huffington Post, and he writes a sociosexual blog called I AM YELLOW PERIL.
KATIE JACOBSON IS A BEAR/SHARK HYBRID ORIGINALLY FROM NEW JERSEY. HER MFA FROM
CALARTS GOT HER A JOB AT A BOOKSTORE. SHE IS A GQ MOTHERFUCKER WHO LIKES TO
WRITE ABOUT GENETIC MUTANTS. HER WORK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED IN VALEVEIL'S CASEBOK/EKPHRASIS
PROJECT AND IN HOT TEA, COLD WATER. KATIE SELF-PUBLISHED A ZINE,
VERGANGENHEITSBEWÄLTIGUNG, IN 2009, AND HAS SINCE AUTHORED VARIOUS PAMPHLETS
UNDER THE PSEUDONYM "ANARCHY SHARK." SHE CO-CURATES THE READING
SERIES YOU ARE CURRENTLY AT. SEE HER UNFINISHED WEBSITE AT KATIEJACOBSON.COM. HER BIO IS IN ALL
CAPS.
Anne Shaw is the author of Undertow, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky
Poetry Prize, and Shatter and Thrust,
forthcoming from Persea Books in 2013. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming
in numerous literary journals
including Harvard Review, Black Warrior
Review, Denver Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and New American Writing. Her extended poetry project can be found on
Twitter at twitter.com/anneshaw. She is currently a student of sculpture at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Next event, September 14th.
