A
New Cadence Poetry Series Presents
A Fiction Special Event
featuring Other Voices
Press
Authors:
Gina Frangello
Joshua Mohr
Rob Roberge
Leota Higgins
Stacy Bierlein
Sunday, October 14th
3PM
Felix Kulpa Gallery
107 Elm Street
Santa Cruz 95060
Gina Frangello is the author of
three books of fiction: A Life in Men (forthcoming from
Algonquin in February 2014), Slut Lullabies (Emergency Press
2010), and My Sister's Continent (Chiasmus 2006). She is
the Executive Editor and co-founder of the independent fiction press
Other Voices Books, and also serves as the Sunday Editor of The
Rumpus and the Fiction Editor of The Nervous Breakdown. She
lives in Chicago.
Joshua Mohr's work has
been published in Other Voices, The Cimarron Review, Pleiades, and
Gulf Coast, among others. He is the author of Damascus,
Termite Parade and Some
Things That Meant the World to Me. He is a regular contributor
to TheRumpus.net, and teaches writing in San Francisco. He also sings
in the band Damn Handsome & The Birthday Suits.
Rob
Roberge is the author of
the upcoming book of stories Working Backwards from the
Worst Moment of My Life,
the neo-noir novels More Than They Could Chew
(Perennial Dark Alley/Harper
Collins, February 2005) and Drive
(re-issue, Hollyridge
Press, 2006). His stories have been featured in
ZYZZYVA, Chelsea, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review,
and the "Ten Writers Worth Knowing Issue" of The
Literary Review. His
work has also been anthologized in Another City
(City Lights, 2001), It’s All Good
(Manic D Press, 2004) and SANTI: Lives of the Modern
Saints (Black Arrow Press,
2007). New work is scheduled to appear in OC
Noir, part of the series
that includes San
Francisco Noir, LA Noir
and Las Vegas Noir.
Other new work is coming in PENTHOUSE.
Leota Higgins has an MFA from the University of San Francisco and is
currently at work on her first novel "Still Searching", the first
chapter of which has been published by Achiote Press in their debut story
collection "Routes".
Stacy Bierlein is the author of
A Vacation on the Island
of Ex-Boyfriends. She is the editor of the award-winning
anthology
A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision
and Connection (May 2008), and a co-editor of
Men Undressed:
Women Writers and the Male Sexual Experience (October 2011). She
is a founding editor of the independent press Other Voices Books as
well as co-creator of the Morgan Street International Novel Series.
Bierlein is a graduate of Syracuse University and Columbia College. A
native of mid-Michigan and avid traveler, she currently makes her
home in Newport Coast, California. Follow her on Twitter
@StacyBierlein.
