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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