Larissa Andrusyshyn hosts open mic nights around the city, and organizes shows that
combine music and the spoken word. She is the editor/creator of Rider's
Alley and Scribble, both spoken and visual arts magazines. She is orginally
from Reno, Nevada. She is the author of 5 chapbooks.
Paula Belina is a visual artist and promoter. She hosts shows around the
Montreal area that mix different art forms: breack dancing, poetry, rap,
punk, hip hop, rock etc etc....her poetry combines her knowledge of the
streets with her sensibilities as a young woman. On stage she is a raw,
explosive wordsmith, combining pure emotion with rhythm and movement. She is
the author of four chapbooks.
Bridget Benton is a writer, artist, and performer whose work has appeared in
The Climbing Art, Rust City Comic Annual, W.I.G. Magazine, We'moon 2000, and the poetry anthology Playing With a Full Deck. She also has her own chapbook, Whore for Words, available through Powells.com, an indie on-line bookstore. She is fascinated by the tradition of the sacred whore, by exhibitionism and voyeurism, and by the tricks we play with language. Curious? Check out www.sniffylinings.com and look under the "writers" section.
C.C. Carter is the winner of the Guild Complex's Fifth Annual Gwendolyn
Brooks Poetry Award. Her work has been published into two chapbooks and included in various anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2000. Her new collection of poetry, Body Language, is scheduled for release this summer. She can be seen performing her work at many of the local and national women's music festivals. CC is the recipient of the Black Heat
Award by Blacklines Magazine and Wordrising, "...for knowing how to heat up an audience and leaving them wanting more." She is the women's component director for A Real Read, Chicago's Premiere African American LGBT Performance Ensemble. You can view C.C. in the film documentary, Living With Pride: Ruth Ellis @100 Years -- showing on the Sundance channel this month.
Clint Catalyst is from Los Angeles. He is about to embark on a nation wide
tour for first new book Cottonmouth Kisses (Manic D. Press).
Maia Davies is recording a (demo) cd. She will be studying music at Vanier
College in the fall. She has been compared to Tori Amos and Ani Difranco;
however, her original style and sense for making folk music new sets her in
her own individual category. The voice of an angel and the soul of a diva all
trapped in the body of a vixen. Check her out!
Erica Ferencik is a Boston-based novelist and screenwriter with an M.A. in
Creative Writing from Boston University. She recently completed a novel in
Katherine Applegate's best selling series Animorphs. Her humorous
nonfiction has appeared in Kinesis, Laf, and several major newspapers. She
won two honorable mentions for her thriller screenplay Mama's Girl; one
from the Massachusetts Film Office Screenwriting Competition, the other from
The Writer's Foundation. Currently,Mama's Girl is a Quarterfinalist in
the Cinestory 2000 Screenwriting Competition. She is a member of Harvard
Square Scriptwriters (reading hundreds of scripts over several years), the
Mass Media Alliance and Women in Film and Video of New England. She has
written sketch comedy and performed standup for eight years at such major
venues as the Comedy Connection and Nick's Comedy Stop. She was also invited
to perform for the National Organization for Women for their 1996 and 1997
national conventions. In addition to working as a professional editor and
proofreader, Erica has taught Creative Writing at the Newton Arts Center as
well as Quincy College. Erica is currently the Director of Development for Frye Productions in Boston.
Amatul Hannan is a Biracial Bisexual sister and Working Artist. Over the years she has been independently promoting and producing socially conscious entertainment including: art exhibits, readings, benefits for nonprofits, Pride parties (Tryst 97, TRYST 98, ACTION) and multimedia programs. As head of ToolBox Productions, Amatul has curated original and inclusive cultural events to attract, build and expand Black, Asian, Latina, interclass, intergenerational, bi/lesbian/gay, and other progressive audiences.
Thea Hillman is a poet, performer, and teacher. While
her work has appeared in a wide variety of places,
including The San Francisco Bay Guardian, On Our
Backs, Queer View Mirror II, and Wood Technology
magazine, she is most proud of her tag-team haiku
championship title. Thea lives in San Francisco with
her two cats and four houseplants.
Jemiah Jefferson, recipient of the 1998 Thornton International Prize for
Fiction, has been writing sensually overcharged novels and short stories
since the age of 12. She has been published extensively in various print
and online journals including Ben is Dead and Cafe Eighties. A
short-story collection, Starf**king, will be released by Future Tense
Press in summer 2000, and a novel, Voice of the Blood, on Leisure Books
in spring 2001. She lives, works, and regularly falls in love in
Portland, Oregon.
Brenda McClain writes southern literary fiction and is represented by Mary
Ann Naples of The Creative Culture, Inc. Brenda's first novel, Darby, He Liked Ropes, is currently being shopped around for publication. She is at work on her second novel, Willie June. She was awarded the 1993 Fiction Award
for portions of Darby, He Liked Ropes at the Southern California Writers' Conference. The first chapter of Willie June has been accepted for publication in an upcoming anthology called In the Company of Women, due out later this year. She is an active member of the North Carolina Writers Network and The Writer's Workshop in Asheville, NC. Brenda lives in a home that she has converted into a barn, located on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast.
Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of Alibi School and The
Forgiveness Parade, both published by Manic D Press.
His poems have appeared in many literary journals and
anthologies, including Best American Poetry,
Ploughshares, New (American) Poets, Imperfect
Paradise: American Poets Born After 1960, and New
American Poetry.
Letta Neely -- I grew up nourished by the open sky of the midwest, trees big enough to
climb and be cradled by. Although living in Dorchester, MA is very different,
I harvest enough wild blackberries to feel at home. I have been published
most recently in Does Your Mama Know, A Woman Like That, and The World in Us.
In 1998, my first full length book, Juba, was published by Wildheart Press. I
am still in love with sky.
Sparrow Lourde Patterson is a poet and novelist who lives in Chicago, Illinois. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, with Bachelor degrees in both English and Psychology. She is a participant in the spoken word scene on the campus of U of I, in Chicago and also in the suburbs of Chicago. She is a member of Hodge Podge art movement, where she performs several readings and donates her paintings. Hodge Podge donates 75% of proceeds to battered women shelters. Her first novel, Synthetic Bi-Products, is due out March 2001, to be published by Akashic Books, NYC.
Carol Queen has a doctorate in sexology which she uses to impart more
realistic detail to her smut (among other things -- her day job is at
legendary worker-owned sex shop Good Vibrations, where she talks to the press about sex toys and sex-positive feminism, and directs Continuing Education programs for the staff). She is the author of Exhibitionism for the Shy, The Leather Daddy and the Femme, and Real Live Nude Girl, and has edited several books as well.
Nina Revoyr was born in Japan, the only child of a Japanese mother and a
white American father. She grew up in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles.
Her first novel, The Necessary Hunger, was published by Simon & Schuster in
1997 (paperback, St. Martin's Press, 1998). Time magazine wrote that The
Necessary Hunger is "the kind of irresistible read you start on the subway at
6 p.m. on the way home from work and keep plowing through until you've turned
the last page at 3 a.m. in bed... American writers dealing with race
relations tend to focus on black-white or Asian-white situations; Revoyr has
the imagination to depict racial issues in which whites are not the reference
point." Ms. Revoyr and her work have been featured in many magazines,
newspapers, and radio shows, including the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair,
and NPR's "Weekend Edition." In March of 1998, she was one of five writers
chosen by Marian Wright Edelman to be a panelist at the Children's Defense
Fund's 25th Annual Conference. Ms. Revoyr has just completed her second
novel. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Michelle Tea -- A twenty-eight-year-old working-class writer from Chelsea,
Massachussetts, Michelle Tea moved to San Francisco's Mission District in
1993. Co-founder of the spoken word show Sister Spit, Tea is the author of
The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
(Semiotext(e)). She is currently at work on her third book, tentatively
titled The Chelsea Whistle.
Linda Treash --
Trading unbearable winters for unbearable summers, Linda Treash came south to
New Orleans from Boston in 1995 to enter an MFA program in writing at the
University of New Orleans. Since graduating in 1998, she's stayed in
the Big Easy to take advantage of what's big: culture, and what's easy:
living (such as paying only $185 rent). The culture has done her well, in
ways both hoped for and unexpected. She has two editors at the New
Orleans Times-Picayune who publish every travel and daytrip article she
gets to them (18 since the first came out last summer) and in the past
year she's broken onto the performance stage as possibly the tallest
trapeze artist in history. She performs with an all-female,
all-English-masters-degreed troupe, Aerial Inc., which has had 10 public
performances since their debut to a cheering, if freezing, January crowd.
She's also a published photographer and has work currently on show at the
New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. And then there's the novel -- don't
forget the novel! -- something Linda's always saying to herself. She's
working on a second draft of her novel The Before -- something that often
falls to the side amid the clammor of the other events. Rather than
bring her still-under-construction novel to the Jezebelle audience, Linda
plans to read a new short story -- a story not about balancing in the air on
a metal bar or turning tires into travel spots -- but about crossing
the street. Come hear!
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