August 16, 2006

THIS SUNDAY
August 20
at 21 GRAND
416 Twenty-fifth Street
(corner Broadway)
Oakland, California
7 pm | $4 sugg.

YURI HOSPODAR was born in southeast Pennsylvania. He fled as early as he could to Boston, and continued fleeing to such places as San Luis Obispo County (gods' country), San Francisco, Prague, back to SF, back to Boston, and then to San Francisco yet again. Australia is quite possibly next on the list as his partner is a MARSUPIAL. His writing has been published in a small book entitled "To You In Your Closets" (ca. 1990), as well as some delightful anthologies and a magazine here and there, and has not been published in many, many other places.

ERIKA STAITI grew up on Long Island and then spent four years in Binghamton NY. Then she drove to the Pacific Northwest to work and live somewhere nice. Last year she moved to Oakland to do MFA things at Mills College. When she visits New York she likes to advocate for the Bay Area. Someday she may go back or maybe she'll just stay here.

The films of SARAH ENID films were once called "neo-Edwardian" but now seem bound for science fiction/fantasy, where the emotional stakes are higher. With recent showings at SF Cinematheque and the Silver Lake Film Festival, her films are also in heavy rotation at Edinburgh Castle. Sarah Enid grew up in Fresno County.