LIMINAL: Boundaries
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Event Description
Liminal's reading at the Beast will be an ensemble piece that weaves together the writing of twelve different women/gender non-binary writers, on the theme of "Boundaries."
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Curator: Gina Goldblatt
Gina Goldblatt is a New Yorker in mismatched California attire, a cat hoarder and a bunny finder, who walks dogs for money, started Liminal for the sake of preserving voice and sanity, and does aerial silks under the name Cara Coy.
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Event Readers
Lyndsey Ellis
Lyndsey Ellis loves thrift stores, Jolly Rancher candies and Afro-Samba, all of which she's never written about...yet.
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Liz Green
Liz Green is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Los Medanos College; they are a published spoken word poet, playwright, and essayist, a Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction, and are currently seeking representation for their queer YA sci-fi novel.
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Elise Hunter |
Liza Kuney |
Elise Hunter tends to a garden of ferocious succulents, works on clean energy policy, and chips away at her upcoming novel, Options & Futures, in Oakland; find out more at www.elisehunter.com
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Liza Kuney is a menopausal hot-mess who, in April 2005, POOF, turned into a poet while listening to Seattle's Poet Laureate read her own work in the Moutlake Terrace Library. Having found human rights highly overrated, Liza currently works with dogs- a perfect pairing with poetry, she's happy to discover.
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Bonnie Wai Lee Kwong |
Raina J. León |
Bonnie Wai Lee Kwong's first book of poetry is 'ravel,' a finalist for prizes by White Pine Press and New Rivers Press; her work in poetry and theater has garnered a number of Pushcart Nominations and an artist's residency at Stanford.
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Raina J. León is from Philly and a member of writing communities that suffer no fools and nurture all prophets: CantoMundo, Macondo, Cave Canem, the Carolina African American Writers Collective, and the rebellious sort of teachers and teacher educators. She has three books of poetry and a chapbook you should read; she is reading your work, too.
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Ginger Murray |
Norma Smith |
Ginger Murray is a writer and performer. A once SF Weekly columnist and founder of Whore! magazine, she now spends far too much time in her kitchen reading political diatribes in West Oakland where the lemon trees grow.
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Norma Smith was born in Detroit, grew up in Fresno, and has been living and writing in Oakland since the late 1960s.
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Kelechi Ubozoh |
Lenore Weiss |
Kelechi Ubozoh is a Brooklyn born poet/singer/ mental health advocate who was published in the New York Times in her undergrad; she is featured in The S Word documentary which follows the lives of suicide attempt survivors in an effort to eliminate the stigma of mental health issues.
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Lenore Weiss is a writer, editor, and teacher who juggles across the delicious stream beds of poetry and fiction. She currently is teaching Flash(!) at San Francisco State University. Her work embraces change.
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