An Evening of Fiction, Poetry and Commentary
7:00 pm Friday, November 20th, 2009
Kokoro Studio, 682 Geary St. (@ Leavenworth)
Terri Cohn / David Willam Hill
Jim Nelson / Susanna Kittredge
Bronwen Tate / Andrew Touhy
Hosted by Tom Andes
For the last four years, as members of the Flat Earth Collective, Jim Nelson, Andrew Touhy, Tom Andes, and David William Hill have been subverting the notion of a writers’ group by not meeting to talk about writing. Now we’re taking it global by inviting a few friends to read with us at Kokoro Studio in the scenic Uptown Tenderloin District.
Terri Cohn is a writer, curator, and art historian, and was a contributing editor to Artweek for twenty years. She is a faculty member and Graduate Faculty Advisor at the San Francisco Art Institute, and serves as a trustee for the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.
David William Hill was an assistant editor for Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives (McSweeney’s 2008), now available in Spanish. He’s won a few fiction awards, and his work has appeared in several journals, including Cimarron Review, Paradigm and Watchword. He has taught writing at both San Francisco State University and the Academy of Art University. Currently, he works as a special education teacher.
Raised in suburban Boston, Susanna Kittredge now makes her home in San Francisco. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in journals including Fourteen Hills, Parthenon West Review, Shampoo, and 580 Split, as well as the Faux Press anthology Bay Poetics. She especially enjoys writing about words, birds, and earthquakes.
Jim Nelson’s work has appeared in The Erotic Review, Instant City, Cosmopsis Quarterly, Switchback, SmokeLong Quarterly, Watchword, and other fine literary venues. He has work forthcoming in North American Review. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He can be reached on the Web at barbecuingpeople.com.
Bronwen Tate is the author of the chapbooks Souvenirs (Dusie 2007), Like the Native Tongue the Vanquished (Cannibal Books 2008), and Scaffolding (Dusie 2009). She is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, where she edits Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism and Translation. She can read and knit at the same time.
Andrew Touhy’s work appears in Web Conjunctions, New Orleans Review, New American Writing, Fourteen Hills, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue Award, Fourteen Hills’ Bambi Holmes Fiction Prize, and a recent nominee for inclusion in Best New American Voices 2008. As of today, once again, he’s decided to become the most limited of all specialists, the “well-rounded” man.
Tom Andes lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he teaches composition at Northwest Arkansas Community College. His fiction has recently appeared or will be forthcoming in News from the Republic of Letters, Apalachee Review, and Muthafucka: A Journal of the Arts. Over time, he intends to make himself more present by disappearing completely.