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a reading and book signing with Rebecca Brown & Kate Bernheimer

Saturday
May 12, 7 p.m.
Refeshments will be served
Suggested Donation: $5

This reading is open to the public and a part of an entire weekend of programing with Rebecca Brown. For more information on the rest of the weekend or to enroll in workshops, please visit: Short Prose Forms.

 

Kate Bernheimer is the author of a trilogy of novels, concluding recently with The Complete Tales of Lucy Gold. Her story collection Horse, Flower, Bird, "redefines the fairy tale into something wholly original" (Booklist). Editor of three fairy-tale anthologies--including the 2011 World Fantasy Award winning My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, she is Associate Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette.

 

 

Rebecca Brown's l2th book, a collection of essays entitled American Romances, was released by City Lights in June, 2009 and won the Publishing Triangle Award. Brown is also the author of The Last Time I Saw You (City Lights 2006) and Woman in Ill Fitting Wig, a collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer. Brown’s nonfiction book, Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary, was published by Granta Books (UK), University of Wisconsin Press (USA), and Asahi Shimbun (Japan). Among her other books are The End of Youth, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, Annie Oakley's Girl and The Terrible Girls all with City Lights, and The Gifts of the Body, (HarperCollins). She has been awarded numerous prizes including a Stranger Genius Award, a Boston Book Review Award for Fiction, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, a Lambda Literary Foundation Award, a twice winner of the Washington State Book Award. She has been awarded numerous grants from the Breneman-Jaech Foundation. Her books have been translated into Japanese, German, Danish, Norwegian, etc.
She co-edited, with Robert Corbett of Experimental Theology, (Seattle Research Institute, 2003) an anthology of responses modern views of god and godlessness. In 2009, Looking Together: Writers on Art, which she co-edited with Mary Jane Knecht of the Frye Art Museum, was published by the University of Washington Press.