Writers With Drinks with Luis Jaramillo and Jenny Davidson! April 13, 2013

Writers With Drinks goes to strange new places and leaves you there, with no way to get home.

When: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
Who: Jenny Davidson, Arisa White, Marie Brennan, Luis Jaramillo and Molly Weatherfield!
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco
How much: $5 to $10 sliding scale, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture

About the writers/readers:

Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Doctor’s Wife, winner of the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Contest, an Oprah Book of the Week, and one of NPR’s Best Books of 2012. Luis’s work has also appeared in Open City, Gamers (Soft Skull Press), Tin House Magazine, H.O.W. Journal, and Red Line Blues. He is the Associate Chair of the Writing Program at the New School, where he oversees the undergraduate curriculum and the Riggio Honors Program: Writing & Democracy, teaches courses in fiction and nonfiction, and is co-editor of the journal The Inquisitive Eater: New School Food. He has led workshops on yoga and writing at the New School Summer Writers Colony, NYU Paris, and the Laughing Lotus Yoga Studios in Manhattan and San Francisco.

Jenny Davidson's latest book is The Magic Circle. Her other books include Heredity, and two young-adult novels, The Explosionist and Invisible Things. She also wrote two works of nonfiction: Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to Austen and Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century. She teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Arisa White is a Cave Canem fellow, an MFA graduate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the poetry chapbooks Disposition for Shininess and Post Pardon; she was selected by the San Francisco Bay Guardian for the 2010 Hot Pink List. Member of the PlayGround writers’ pool, her play Frigidare was staged for the 15th Annual Best of PlayGround Festival. Recipient of the inaugural Rose O’Neill Literary House summer residency at Washington College in Maryland, Arisa has also received residencies, fellowships, or scholarships from Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Hedgebrook, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Prague Summer Program, Fine Arts Work Center, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her debut collection, Hurrah’s Nest, was published by Virtual Artists Collective; her second collection, A Penny Saved, was released by Willow Books, an imprint of Aquarius Press, in November 2012.

Marie Brennan is the author of A Natural History of Dragons. Her previous books include Warrior, Witch, Midnight Never Come, In Ashes Lie, A Star Shall Fall, With Fate Conspire and Lies and Prophecy. Her stories have appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Jabberwocky, Talebones, Intergalactic Medicine Show and many other places.

Molly Weatherfield, the pen name of Pam Rosenthal, is the author of Carrie's Story, which Playboy called an "American twist on Story of O," plus a sequel, Safe Word. A prolific romance and erotica writer, she has penned many sexy, literate, historical novels. She lives in San Francisco.

About Writers With Drinks:

Writers With Drinks won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll six years in a row and was named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. And it was namechecked in Armistead Maupin's latest Tales of the City novel. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local worthy causes. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.

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