Name: Stranger Than Fiction Reading Series
Start: 2024-07-21T14:00:00-07:00
Location: Specs Bar

Literati, please join me and Alan Black as we host this stellar line-up of authors reading new work in a dark bar on a July afternoon. Authors include: Kim Addonizio, Joe Loya, Naomi Goldner, Alan Black, Grace Loh Prasad, and Natacha Ruck. Bios below:
Kim Addonizio is the author of over a dozen books of prose and poetry. Exit Opera is forthcoming from Norton in September. Addonizio’s work has been honored with fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation, and her collection Tell Me was a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA and teaches poetry workshops on Zoom. https://www.kimaddonizio.com
Joe Loya is an award-winning essayist, playwright, actor, TV writer, podcaster, and author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, “The Man Who Outgrew His Prison Cell.”
Naomi Anne Goldner is a San Francisco-based writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She holds an MFA in Fiction from San Francisco State University, and her work has been performed, published and anthologized in various journals and publications including The Hill, Variant Lit, Entropy Magazine, Quiet Lightning, The Festival Review, Qu Literary and The Smart Set, to name a few. Founder of WordSpaceStudios Literary Arts Center, and editor-in-chief of Chariot Press Journal, she is in the finishing stages of her debut novel.
Alan Black hasbeen a writer, mightbe a writer, couldbe a writer, mightnotbe a writer.
Grace Loh Prasad is the author of The Translator’s Daughter (Mad Creek Books/The Ohio State University Press, 2024), a debut memoir about living between languages, navigating loss, and the search for belonging. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Longreads, The Offing, Hyperallergic, Catapult, KHÔRA, and elsewhere. A member of the Writers Grotto and the AAPI writers collective Seventeen Syllables, Prasad lives in the Bay Area.
Natacha wants to do it all. She was the managing editor of the beloved podcast Duolingo French and just returned to San Francisco from her first international tour of her solo show: YOU’RE GOOD FOR NOTHING… I’LL MILK THE COW MYSELF, a coming-of-age-war-epic-love-story. She is currently developing a series of essays and a new solo show: INTERPRET THIS, an exploration of multicultural mayhem and gender at film festivals.