Monday, March 14, 7pm, Books Inc. Castro (2275 Market Street)

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Daphne Gottlieb at Perfectly Queer

Next Monday night is our event "March On: Tales of Perseverance and Hope" at Books Inc. Castro (2275 Market) at 7 pm. Come hear Daphne Gottlieb, who stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of ten books including the new collection of short stories, Pretty Much Dead. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words, a collection of letters from Death Row by the “first female serial killer” to her childhood best friend. She is also the author of five books of poetry, editor of two anthologies, and, with artist Diane DiMassa, the co-creator of the graphic novel Jokes and the Unconscious. Daphne is the winner of the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and is a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

Congratulations to our Genanne Walsh!

Congratulations to our own Genanne Walsh! Her novel "Twister" is #3 on the Small Press Distribution bestseller list:

http://www.spdbooks.org/Pages/Item/58937/fiction-bestsellers-januaryfebruary-2016.aspx

Genanne Walsh has been awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from Black Lawrence Press for her first novel, Twister, which was also a finalist for the Brighthorse Prize. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs.

Twister brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern community mourns the death of a young soldier. As the storm drives into the heart of town secrets are illuminated, pasts are resurrected, and lives are shaken to the core.

Margo Perin, one of the reader for March On: Tales of Perseverance and Hope

One of the authors for our event is Margo Perin. She has taught writing for more than thirty years in the U.S., Britain, Mexico and Italy, including on M.F.A. writing programs at the University of San Francisco and New College, as well as fiction and nonfiction workshops at the U.C. Berkeley and Santa Cruz Extensions. Her publications include Only the Dead Can Kill: Stories from Jail and How I Learned to Cook & Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. A nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she has been featured in numerous national and international media, including Heyday/PEN’s Fightin’ Words, The San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, Mexico’s El Petit Journal, Holland’s Psycologie, KRON 4 TV, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and KALW, KPFA, and WAMC. Her awards include two San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grants and Poets & Writers grants, a Creative Work Fund grant, and residencies at Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, Hedgebrook and Norcroft.

Margo will read from her latest work, "The Opposite of Hollywood," the tale of a young woman discovering the surprising truth about her parents and the sudden family "vacations" to foreign lands.

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