Cold, raw, and glittery: Fiction and Photos
Opening Reception: January 7th, 7-10 pm, reading at 8pm sharp.
Curated by Chantal O'Keeffe
A night of emerging talent, right before it explodes. Thursday, January 7th- in all of its shiny glitter and dirty grit- fiction from Rhiannon Argo, Libby Flores, Jason McNamara, Chantal O’Keeffe, and Nana K. Twumasi. Stunning art on the walls by the amazing photographer, Chelsea Rae Klein. For one night only.
Through the lens of northern California, “A Singular Paradise” explores the relationship between farmers, landowners and residents, and the land they subsist on. The images expose the unusually simple yet complex balance between the modern man and the sanctity, endurance and plentitude of the territory he lives on.
- Chelsea Rae Klein
Rhiannon Argo is a writer and photographer. She is the author of the queer pop novel The Creamsicle. Her work has also been published in Baby Remember My Name: New Queer Girl Writing, It's So You: 35 Women on Fashion, Beauty and Personal Style, The Lowdown Highway Anthology, ArtXX, Spread Magazine, and Cutter Photozine. Rhiannon has toured the U.S., Canada, and Europe with the new wave of Sister SPIT. She has been a Lambda Literary Writer's Retreat and RADAR Lab Writer's Retreat fellow.
Libby Flores was born in Texas and moved to Los Angeles 11 years ago because it seemed like a good idea. She was chosen as one of eight writers in the US to receive the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2008. Her short story “For Celia” was nominated for a UCLA James Kirkwood Award. She has contributed to Slash Magazine and also written a series of one-act plays that have been produced in L.A.. Recently she has read at Tongue and Groove, a monthly literary salon in Hollywood. Libby is currently working on a collection of short-shorts.
Chantal O'Keeffe grew up in Virginia and now lives in San Francisco. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts. She just finished co-writing a vampire novel, and is still hard at work (for the most part) on a collection of short shorts.
Chelsea Rae Klein holds a degree in Journalism with an emphasis on Documentary Photography. She has been a published contributor to numerous publications including The Oakland Tribune and Photographer’s Forum Annual. Chelsea is the founder of Through the Lens Project, a developing non-profit program that offers free and subsidized workshops to non-profit organizations and underserved individuals in digital media, writing, and photography. She is also the founder and editor of Descry Magazine, a visual art publication developed to support the visibility of emerging photographers and artists. Chelsea lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Jason McNamara is a Xeric Award winning comic book author. His graphic novel titles include Short Hand, Less Than Hero, First Moon, Continuity, The Martian Confederacy, it’s upcoming sequel, From Mars with Love. Jason recently co-created the Pie Theory Alternate Reality Game for Sun Microsystems and is prepping a non-fiction book on American Sign Language. Originally from the clam digging North Shoreof Long Island, Jason has been living in San Francisco since 97.
nana k. twumasi was born in the south, and raised a bunch of other places, which left her a midwest work-ethic, an east-coast attitude, and now that she lives in Oakland, CA, a west-coast sense of time. Her work has appeared as part of Ballyhoo Stories' 50 States Project, and the International Museum of Women's Imagining Ourselves online exhibit. She also co-edits monday night, a literary journal.
