Join us for a group event with authors Melissa Border, Diane Marie Brown, Ruth Madievsky, Laura Warrell, Anna Dorn, and Allie Rowbottom!About this Event
Join us for our first LA-based Women Writers Group Event for a reading, signing, and Q&A from praised authors Melissa Border, Diane Marie Brown, Ruth Madievsky, Laura Warrell, Anna Dorn, and Allie Rowbottom! Wine, cheese, and light refeshments will be served on us.
ABOUT MELISSA BRODER
Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed, The Pisces, and Death Valley, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom. She has written for The New York Times, Elle, and New York magazine’s The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on Twitter @SoSadToday and @MelissaBroder and Instagram @RealMelissaBroder.
ABOUT DIANE MARIE BROWN
Diane Marie Brown is a professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California and a public health professional for the Long Beach Health Department. She has a BA and MPH from UCLA and a degree in fiction from USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. Her work has appeared in Bomb Magazine, Hear Our Voices, Scary Mommy, Women Writers, the Audible Blog, and the Daily Bruin. She grew up in Stockton and now lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, their four daughters, and their dog, Brownie. Her debut novel, Black Candle Women, is a Read With Jenna book club selection.
ABOUT RUTH MADIEVSKY
Ruth Madievsky is the author of national bestselling novel, All-Night Ph*rm*cy, winner of the California Book Award for First Fiction, the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction. An Indie Next Pick, All-Night Ph*rm*cy was hailed by the New York Times as "tender and hilarious" and was named a Best/Most Anticipated 2023 Book by over 45 venues, including NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vulture, and Buzzfeed. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake, spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers list. She was the winner of The American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Iowa Review's Tim McGinnis Award for fiction, and a Tin House scholarship in poetry. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States.
ABOUT LAURA WARRELL
Laura Warrell is the author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Golden Poppy Book Award through the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Named a ‘best’ or ‘must-read’ book by Vanity Fair, People, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Apple Books, The Root, The Millions, Hollywood Reporter, Bustle, Today, Debutiful, and elsewhere, the novel was also chosen as a Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and an Indie Next List Pick.
ABOUT ANNA DORN
Anna Dorn is an author and editor living in Los Angeles. She teaches writing classes at Write or Die and is an associate editor at Hobart Pulp. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow and her second novel Exalted was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. Her next book American Spirits is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
ABOUT ALLIE ROWBOTTOM
Allie Rowbottom is the author of the memoir Jell-O Girls, a New York Times Editor’s Choice Selection, Amazon Best Book of the Month, Indie Next Pick, and Real Simple Best Book of the year. Allie’s essays and short fiction can be found in Vanity Fair, Salon, Lit Hub, No Tokens, NY Tyrant, The Drunken Canal, Alta Journal, Bitch and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and has taught fiction and non-fiction at the University of Houston, CalArts, and Catapult. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer Jon Lindsey.
Event Venue
18604 Ventura Blvd, 18604 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
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