Ann Packer and Lan Tran at Writers With Drinks January 10, 2009

Alliterate your eardrums with another installment of the award-winning Writers With Drinks reading series.

When: Saturday, January 10, 2008, 7:30 to 9:30 PM.
Who: Ann Packer, Lan Tran, Yosefa Raz, Scott Sigler and Steven Schwartz!
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
How much: $3 to $5 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the CSC.

About the readers/performers:

Ann Packer is the author of Songs Without Words, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, and Mendocino and Other Stories. She's had a story in the O. Henry Awards prize stories collection and the New Yorker, and won an NEA grant.

Lan Tran's solo show, How To Unravel Your Family, played before a sold-out audience at Lincoln Center, and her latest show "Elevator/Sex" played at the West End Theater. Her work has frequently appeared on NPR and in anthologies such as Waking Up American.

Yosefa Raz's poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Gumball Poetry, Tikkun and Glimmer Train. Her first poetry collection, In Exchange For A Homeland, was published by Swan Scythe Press.

Scott Sigler's novels include Infected, Contagious, EarthCore and Ancestor. His short story "Sacred Cow" was made into an online mini-movie by StrangerThings.TV.

Steven Schwartz is the author of a chapbook of 69 stories, called 69. His stories have appeared in Tough Girls, 5 Minute Erotica, Best Bisexual Erotica 2 and Wired Hard, among other places.

Official Website: http://www.writerswithdrinks.com