Felicia Luna Lemus + Jess Arndt November 2, 2007

Felicia Luna Lemus is the author of two novels, Like Son (Akashic, 2007) and Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties (2003). She teaches writing at The New School and lives in the East Village. Please visit felicialunalemus.com An avid student of old fashioned mixologies, vast piracy, and assorted buggery, Jess Arndt is attempting to combine the three in her yet to be finished first novel, Shanghaied. Set in Gold Rush San Francisco, the story weaves and staggers through the opium dens, brothels and sailor holes of the Barbary Coast, continuously distracted by the gold-lust and tarts. Having just finished her MFA at Bard College, she trades her time between Brooklyn and a small island off the northwest coast of Washington State. She has most recently been published in Velvet Mafia: Dangerous Queer Fiction, Instant City Journal, Encyclopedia Literary Journal, Bottoms Up! Writing About Sex from Soft Skull Press, and Baby Remember My Name, a new anthology edited by Michelle Tea. She has a short story coming out from Inconvenient Press later this fall, in collaboration with visual artist, Xylor Jane.

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