Rhapsodomancy Announces the Writers Reading on Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Doors open at 7:00 - Reading begins at 7:30pm
The Good Luck Bar, 1514 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, 90027 (east Hollywood/Silver Lake: corner of Hollywood & Hillhurst)
21 and over only.
RSVP at rhapsodomancyla@yahoo.com (RSVP not required, but appreciated)
$3 suggested donation at door.
There will be a cash bar.
www.rhapsodomancy.org
Rob Roberge is the author of the upcoming book of stories Working Backwards from the Worst Moment of My Life (Black Arrow Press, scheduled for 2008), the neo-noir novels More Than They Could Chew (Perennial Dark Alley/Harper Collins, February 2005) and Drive (re-issue, Hollyridge Press, 2006). His stories have been featured in ZYZZYVA, Chelsea, Other Voices, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Ten Writers Worth Knowing Issue of The Literary Review. His work has also been anthologized in Another City (City Lights, 2001) and It’s All Good (Manic D Press, 2004). Rob also teaches writing at a number of programs in the Los Angeles area, including the Antioch University Los Angeles, MFA in Creative Writing and the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, where he received the Outstanding Instructor Award in Creative Writing in 2003. In his spare time, he plays guitar and sings with the Los Angeles area garage/punk bands The Violet Rays, The Danbury Shakes and LA’s seminal (class of 78) punk band Urinals, and restores and rebuilds vintage amplifiers and quack medical devices. For news and more info, visit & or email at www.myspace.com/robroberge
Karen Harryman's poems have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Los Angeles Review, Poetry New Zealand, and other journals. Her first book of poetry, Auto Mechanic's Daughter, was published in 2007 by Akashic Books. Before moving to Los Angeles with her husband, Kirker, she lived and worked in Kentucky for most of her life. She teaches creative writing at YULA, an orthodox Jewish girls' high school.
Ana Thorne stays busy pursuing creative and academic dreams deferred. She will receive an MA in Humanities in May from Mount St. Mary’s College and will complete her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles in December. A finalist in the recent Santa Fe Writers Project competition, Ana’s creative nonfiction piece “No Thank You, Otto Titzling” will appear in the SFWP online journal and in the Mount St. Mary’s literary journal. Born in the Midwest, Ana lived in Seatlle, San Francisco, New York City, and the Virgin Islands before settling in Los Angeles. She is working on a series of essays about her parents and her biracial heritage.
At some point Robert D. Montoya was born in Los Angeles, CA. Having grown up in this sprawling setting, much of his writing is latently (and often overtly) influenced by the city’s multi-nodal, concrete urban environment and sporadic urban parks. Robert attended UCLA, receiving his B.A. in American Literature and Culture with a minor in Biological Anthropology. Other things happened. Robert is currently working toward his Masters of Fine Arts degree, with an emphasis on poetry. Domestic and international travel has strongly influenced Robert’s writing, as have literary figures such as Immanuel Kant, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson (go Transcendentalists!), Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Jorie Graham, and Reginald Shepherd. He currently lives in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles.
