Rolling Writers: Rolling through the Ages
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Event Description
Rolling Writers, a themed trans-Bay series, rolls through the ages of life with writers furnishing literary representations of Childhood (Colleen McKee), The Teen Years (Sandra Wassilie), Early Adulthood (Mindela Ruby), Middle Age (Rebecca Foust), Late Middle Age (Roy Mash), and Old Age (Jon Sindell). Fortified with Shakespeare!
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Curator: Jon Sindell
The curator of Rolling Writers and author of the story collections Family Happiness and The Roadkill Collection, Jon Sindell dreams of writing a book without words.
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Event Readers
Rebecca Foust
Rebecca Foust has published five books of poetry, most recently Paradise Drive. Recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield and a recent appointment as Marin County Poet Laureate.
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Roy Mash
Roy Mash is the author of Buyer's Remorse. Currently retired, he spends his time staring out of cafe windows, dabbing up the seeds that have fallen from an everything bagel.
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Colleen McKee
Oakland writer Colleen McKee's fifth collection of memoir and poetry is called The Kingdom of Roly-Polys. It’s available in bookstores and at thepedestrianpress.weebly.com. For upcoming events, please see ColleenMcKee.Blogspot.com.
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Mindela Ruby
Mindela Ruby’s comic punk rock novel is Mosh It Up. Her recent short work appears in Rivet, WomenArts Quarterly, and East Bay Review. Her 2016 safari haiku series was Pushcart-nominated.
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Jon Sindell |
Sandra Wassilie |
Jon Sindell wrote the story collections Family Happiness and The Roadkill Collection. He formerly practiced law with a civil rights emphasis, and is now a fulltime personal humanities tutor.
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Sandra Wassilie left Alaska twice: in her teens to travel, and in middle age to write. Now domiciled in Oakland, she has published poetry, and cofounded Bay Area Generations.
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