14 Hills-City Lights Reading w/Pam Houston, Sandy Floria, Geraldine Kim

Thu, Mar 16
7pm
FREE

14 Hills: The SFSU Review, Volume 12.1
Reading

Please join us for an author reading from the newest issue of
Fourteen Hills, No. 12.1, one of our best yet. This reading will
feature contirbuting authors from 12.1 as well as our Ten Year
Anniversary Anthology.

Pam Houston is the author of two collections of linked short stories,
Cowboys Are My Weakness (W. W. Norton), which was the winner of the
1993 Western States Book Award and has been translated into nine
languages, and Waltzing the Cat (W. W. Norton) which won the Willa
Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her stories have been selected for
the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart
Prize, and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. A
collection of essays, A Little More About Me, was published by W.W.
Norton in the fall of 1999.

Sandy Florian's other Cantos appear in elimae, New Orleans Review,
eratio, Tarpaulin Sky, Gargoyle, 42 Opus, Copper Nickel, Word For/
Word, Upstairs at Duroc, Segue, Versal, and The Encyclopedia Project.
She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, where
she received the Francis Mason Harris Award for best book-length
manuscript, and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of
Denver. Her work appears in the journals listed above and those that
follow: Horse Less Review, Identity Theory, Elixir, dANDelion, The
Brooklyn Rail and many others.

Geraldine Kim was born in 1983 in West Boylston, Massachusetts, and
attended New York University. She lives in San Francisco, where she
is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at San Francisco State University.
Released by Fence Books, her debut Povel was voted one of 2005's top
25 Books of the Year by the Village Voice.

Steve Gilmartin's work has appeared in or is forthcoming from
Paragraph, 3rd bed, VeRT, Syllogism, Comet, Stifled Yawn, Ribot, and
Double Room. He lives in Oakland.

Jimmy Chen lives in San Francisco. He's been published in
McSweeney's, Snow Monkey, Elevenbulls, and online in Pindeldyboz,
Bullfight Review, Melic Review, and Wandering Army, among others.

Venue:

City Lights
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco

http://www.citylights.com/

BY BUS: Take the 15 Third or the 45 Union (to Columbus & Broadway),
or take the 30 Stockton (to Stockton & Broadway, then walk two blocks
east to Columbus).
BY BART or MUNI: Underground: the closest stop is Montgomery Street
station. You can transfer to the 15 Third or the 30 Stockton bus
lines (catch them on Kearny St.), or it's an easy walk (head north,
approximately ten blocks, no hills).
PARKING: Street parking at meters or on residential neighborhood
blocks (2 hour limit, enforced regularly). Public garages located
nearby at Portsmouth Square Garage, 733 Kearny St. (between
Washington and Clay) and North Beach Garage, 735 Vallejo St. (between
Stockton and Powell).

Additional Info:


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