Michael Aleynikov, Author of Ivan and Misha

Michael Aleynikov is the pen name of the author of Ivan and Misha: A Novel in Stories, the forthcoming novella collection Sorrow's Drive: A Quartet, a novel in progress Angor Anime--the conjoined lives of four friends told from a different viewpoint each chapter, and numerous short stories published in literary magazines and anthologies, including the Chicago Quarterly Review of Books, the Georgia Review, the James White Review, Modern Words, and New York Stories.  He is a MacDowell Fellow and Gina Berriault Award winner.  Ivan and Misha won the Northern California Book Award for Fiction and was nominated for the Edmund White Award.  His short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and other honors.

Michael is originally from New York City but now lives in San Francisco.  He has worked as a cab drive, bookstore clerk, "interactive media writer," and a clinical psychologist.  He is the organizer of a  long-running free-write group in San Francisco and is a known frequenter of coffee shops and bookstores.

He will read from Ivan and Misha in "The Long & Short of It," the July 11 Perfectly Queer reading at Books Inc. Opera Plaza, 601 Van Ness Avenue, in San Francisco.  Wine and appetizers at 6:45 p.m.  Readings begin at 7 p.m.  www.facebook.com/events/619573908219248 to rsvp.