Mixer 2.0 presents BARDO for National Suicide Awareness Month
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Event Description
Mixer 2.O, a reading series on hiatus, and WODV, a local producer of literary projects, in contemplation of September, National Suicide Awareness Month, brings writers openly engaging themes of suicide, depression, anxiety, survival, endurance, mindfulness.
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Curator: Sean Labrador y Manzano
Sean Labrador y Manzano lives on the island off the coast of Oakland and is finishing "The Twin Dane," a play about graduate student suicide, adolescent mental health, neuroscience, and Vajrayana Buddhism.
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Event Readers
Joanna Anabo
Joanna Anabo is a pro of achieving great things at the last second. From her time at UC Santa Cruz as an undergrad in English Literature to her future of Poetics at Mills, her tenacity to slap some words together and feel impressed by their reception has continued to push her to do fantastic things. A lady with a minotaur on her thigh and fire with her eyes.
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Loria Mendoza
Loria Mendoza hails from Austin, Texas, where she learned to keep it weird. Seeking the constancy of the bizarre, she moved to the Bay Area, where she earned her MFA from San Francisco State University. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Acentos Review, Mobius, Subprimal, Red Light Lit, The Walrus, and Transfer Magazine. Her book, Life’s Too Short, won the Michael Rubin Book Award in 2016.
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Julie Thi Underhill
Julie Thi Underhill lost her closest friend to suicide in 1993, complicated by a botched investigation by the sheriff and a long disappearance of her friend. Julie lives in Berkeley.
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Anne Cormia
Anne Cormia is a researcher, teacher, and occasional poet. She graduated from the University of York with an MSc in Applied Forensic Psychology. Before that, she spent four glorious years at Mills College where she helped run their undergraduate literary journal, The Walrus. She currently lives in San Francisco.
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Matt Carney
Matt Carney is a writer, educator and anti-educator in San Francisco. He holds an MA and MFA from San Francisco State University. His work has appeared in A cappella Zoo, Entropy, Inkwell, Transfer Magazine, Red Light Lit, Writing Without Walls, and in readings in many sorts of dens. He writes prose, poetry and music, and trips graciously but liberally through the bay, never forgetting his shit-together-glasses for sunset.
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