Faculty Reading: The Night of a Thousand Words

The Continuing Studies Writer's Studio boasts some of the Bay Area's finest writers. In this program, current writing teachers will join together to give brief readings from their work.

Included will be:

Adam Johnson, author of the short-story collection Emporium, and the recently-published novel Parasites Like Us;

Stephen Elliot, author of five novels and the non-fiction Looking Forward To It Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The American Political Process;

Eric Puchner, whose fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Cimmaron Review, and Quarterly West;

Kaui Hemmings, whose fiction has appeared in Best American Non-Required Reading of 2004 and Zoetrope: All-Story;

Andrew Altschul, whose work has appeared in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops, The Florida Review and The Seattle Review;

Otis Haschmeyer, whose work has appeared in Best New American Voices, Missouri Review, and The Sun;

David Roderick, whose poetry and critical essays have appeared in The Hudson Review, Agni, and New England Review;

Rebecca Black, whose forthcoming book of poems Cottonlandia won the 2004 Juniper Prize from the Univ. of Massachusetts Press; and

Stephanie Reents, whose work has been published in Epoch.