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DESCRIPTION:Writers With Drinks features the author of The Martian and one of the most 
 important voices in indigenous studies! Plus tons more!\n\nWhen: Saturday, 
 Dec. 13, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 6:30 PM\nWho: Andy Weir, 
 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Shelly Oria, Vanessa Hua, Megan Geuss and Katie 
 Gilmartin!\nHow much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex 
 and Culture\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St., San 
 Francisco\n\nAbout the readers/performers:\n\nAndy Weir is the author of 
 The Martian, the bestselling novel which is being turned into a movie by 
 Ridley Scott. He was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory 
 at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He 
 is also a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects like 
 relativistic physics, orbital mechanics, and the history of manned 
 spaceflight.\n\nRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is the author of An Indigenous 
 Peoples' History of the United States, as well as Blood on the Border: A 
 Memoir of the Contra War, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 
 1960-1975, The Great Sioux Nation: An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and 
 its Struggle for Sovereignty, Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure 
 in New Mexico, 1680-1980 and Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and 
 Self-Determination.\n\nShelly Oria is the author of New York 1, Tel Aviv 0, 
 a book of stories about gender and sexuality. Her fiction has appeared in 
 The Paris Review, McSweeney's, Quarterly West, and fivechapters among other 
 places, and won the Indiana Review Fiction Prize and a Sozopol Fiction 
 Seminars Fellowship in Bulgaria among other awards. She curates the series 
 Sweet! Actors Reading Writers in the East Village.\n\nShe is the recipient 
 of the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan literary award. A 
 recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University, 
 she is working on a novel, a collection of short stories, and memoir. Her 
 journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, 
 the New Yorker online,Salon, Pacific Standard, and Newsweek, among other 
 publications. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Atlantic, 
 ZYZZVA, Crab Orchard Review, Daily Lit,Calyx, American Literary Review, 
 River Styx, Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. She is the first-place winner of 
 The Atlantic student fiction contest,and has received scholarships from the 
 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Aspen Summer Words.\n\nMegan Geuss is 
 a staff editor at Ars Technica and a native Californian. Prior to Ars, she 
 was a features editor at PCWorld, and before that she worked as a 
 freelancer writer for various publications and as a fact-checker at Wired 
 Magazine.\n\nKatie Gilmartin is the author of Blackmail, My Love, an 
 illustrated noir mystery set in San Francisco in 1951. A printmaker, she 
 also runs Chrysalis Print Studio, where she teaches linocut and monotype 
 classes. She founded City Art Cooperative Gallery, a thriving artspace on 
 Valencia Street, and the Queer Ancestors Project, which is devoted to 
 forging sturdy relationships between young LGBTQ people and their 
 ancestors.\n\n\nAbout Writers With Drinks:\n\nWriters With Drinks has won 
 numerous "Best ofs" from local newspapers, and has been mentioned in 7x7, 
 Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels. The 
 spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for local causes. 
 The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, 
 fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and 
 blogs in a freewheeling format.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/06/18765109.php
SUMMARY:Andy Weir and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz at Writers With Drinks
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/12/06/18765109.php
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