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DESCRIPTION:September's Writers With Drinks is packed with murder and memoir, clockwork 
 empires, hella queer poetry, beautiful wartime stories, and much 
 more!\n\nWhen: Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open 
 6:30 PM\nWho: Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich, Juba Kalamka, Meredith May, 
 Natasha Dennerstein and Daniel H. Wilson!\nHow much: $5 to $20, all 
 proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture\nWhere: The Make Out Room, 
 3225 22nd. St., San Francisco, CA\n\nAbout the 
 readers/performers:\n\nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The 
 Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, named an Indie Next Pick; one of the 
 most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, BookRiot, and the Huffington 
 Post; a must-read for May by Goodreads, Audible.com, Entertainment Weekly, 
 Real Simple and People; long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize and a 
 finalist for a New England Book Award; and one of the 10 best books of the 
 year so far by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, and BookRiot. 
 Marzano-Lesnevich is the recipient of fellowships from The National 
 Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, and a Rona Jaffe 
 Award.\n\nNatasha Dennerstein is the author of two poetry collections, 
 Triptych Caliform and Anatomize. Dennerstein has had poetry published in 
 Fourth Floor, Landfall, Snorkel, JAAM, Takahe, Bloom, Transfer and Red 
 Light Lit, Foglifter, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Sparkle+Blink. She's 
 currently on the editorial team of Nomadic Press in Oakland.\n\nBisexual 
 artist/activist Juba Kalamka is the author of a forthcoming poetry 
 collection, Son of Byford, and also plans to release a new solo album, Jig 
 School Confidential. He been recognized for his more recent work with queer 
 POC performance troupes Sins Invalid and Mangos with Chili, as a member of 
 “homohop” group Rainbow Flava, as co-founder/producer of Deep 
 Dickollective (D/DC) and creator of the micro-label @Sugartruck Recordings. 
 He has written and for Kitchen Sink, Anything That Moves and Carnal Nation, 
 and served six years as a music columnist, book reviewer and feature writer 
 for Colorlines Magazine. He received a 2005 Creating Change Conference 
 award from the National LGBTQ Task Force for his activist work in queer 
 music community. He was one of 30 activists selected to attend the White 
 House Bisexual Community Briefing on Public Policy in September 
 2015.\n\nMeredith May is an award-winning journalist and the author of I, 
 Who Did Not Die, which tells the true story of a 13-year-old Iranian child 
 soldier who secretly nursed an enemy fighter back to life during the brutal 
 Iran-Iraq War. May teaches podcasting at Mills College in Oakland, and is a 
 fifth-generation beekeeper. She spent 16 years as a feature writer at the 
 San Francisco Chronicle. Her 2004 newspaper series about a war-wounded 
 Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and the Pulitzer 
 Prize for photography; and her 2006 sex trafficking investigation earned 
 first place feature writing awards from the Society of Professional 
 Journalists and the Associated Press, and was turned into a graphic novel 
 by Stanford University. Her writing is included in the book, Best Newspaper 
 Writing 2005, published by the American Society of Newspaper 
 Editors.\n\nDaniel H. Wilson's latest book is The Clockwork Dynasty. A 
 Cherokee citizen, Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestselling 
 Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as seven other books, 
 including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, A Boy and His Bot, and Amped. He 
 earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as 
 Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.\n\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/2017/08/22/18802114.php
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Juba Kalamka, Meredith May and Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich!
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/08/22/18802114.php
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