For the September Reading & Meeting, authors will read and talk about their works-in-progress.
Yeva Johnson, Audrey Ferber, Brandy Collins and Nate Olivarez-Giles will read from the poetry, fiction and memoir they are working on and discuss their works-in-progress and their writing process/experience. Christl Rikka Perkins will emcess.
As always, there will be snacks & drinks.
Yeva Johnson, a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet whose work appears in Bellingham Review, Obsidian, sin cesar, Sinister Wisdom, and elsewhere, explores interlocking caste systems and possibilities for human co-existence in our biosphere. Yeva’s debut chapbook, Analog Poet Blues, is available at Black Lawrence Press.
Audrey Ferber's essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, LILITH Magazine, INTIMA: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, First Person Personal, New World Writing, Best Women’s Travel Writing and elsewhere. She is at work on a memoir in essays about marriage and care-giving.
Brandy Collins is a writer and self-proclaimed Professional Auntie born and raised in the Bay Area. Brandy is a SF Grotto member and Rooted & Written fellow; a contributing writer for Cityside publications Oaklandside and Berkeleyside, SF Chronicle, Thrillist, Non-Profit Quarterly, Oakland Voices, The Bold Italic and SF Weekly. She’s also the funny one in the group chat and has a drink named after her.
Nate Olivarez-Giles is a fiction writer exploring themes of race, class, masculinity, sexuality, climate change, and Chicano life in the future. He is currently earning an MFA at University of San Francisco. Nate is also a member of the 2025 One Story Magazine Writer's Circle and the Writers Grotto. His works in progress include a novel and short stories.
Christl Rikka Perkins is a Black/Japanese fiction writer and teacher living in Oakland, CA. She was a freelance writer and teacher in China for 8 years. Her short stories were published in American Fiction 17, Half and Oneand God’s Cruel Joke. Her poetry was published in Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color.