Event DescriptionThe East Bay Review celebrates its second anniversary with a reading featuring six amazing East Bay writers. EBR editors Mike Caligaris, Krista Varela, and Michael Sakoda will read work alongside EBR contributors and native Oaklanders Kaya Oakes, Jan Steckel, and Alison Moncrieff. This is the epicenter. Be about it.
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Curator: The East Bay Review
The East Bay Review is a quarterly journal that showcases real art by real artists from the East Bay and beyond. Come find us at theeastbayreview.com
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Event Readers
Michael Sakoda
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Michael Caligaris
Michael Caligaris graduated from St. Mary’s College. His work has appeared in War, Literature, and the Arts. Most recently, he received the 38th New Millennium Writings Award for Nonfiction. He is the online content editor for The East Bay Review and lives in Oakland.
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Krista Varela
Krista is the managing editor for The East Bay Review. Her work has been published in Vagabond City, Cactus Heart, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a memoir.
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Kaya Oakes
Kaya Oakes is the author of four books, including The Nones Are Alright, Radical Reinvention and Slanted and Enchanted. She teaches nonfiction at UC Berkeley, and is actually from Oakland.
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Jan Steckel
Jan Steckel left the practice of medicine when she realized it made a lousy day job. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction.
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Alison Moncrieff
Alison Moncrieff writes, stitches, and tends chickens & children in Oakland. She is developing a wardrobe of sacred garment-poems to amplify 21st century superpowers & adaptations. Catch glimpses at woolontheradio.tumblr.com
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