"Juicy Fruits: A Pack of Lesbian Writers" is an evening of dykes with pens and laptops. We present excellent poets and writers: Donna Minkowitz, Ana Božičević, Mariel Reyes, Candace Williams, Sarah Sarai. ALL are welcome. Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Mariel Reyes has always been a mad scientist weirdo nerd. Not as doctor, lawyer or engineer, but by letting herself get sucked into storytelling, hoping to be as engaging as her grandmothe...
"Juicy Fruits: A Pack of Lesbian Writers" is an evening of dykes with pens and laptops. We present excellent poets and writers: Donna Minkowitz, Ana Božičević, Mariel Reyes, Candace Williams, Sarah Sarai. ALL are welcome. Suggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Mariel Reyes has always been a mad scientist weirdo nerd. Not as doctor, lawyer or engineer, but by letting herself get sucked into storytelling, hoping to be as engaging as her grandmother someday. She's performed at The Brooklyn Museum, BAX, Dixon Place & BGSQD. You can see her online in funny web videos or in the film Appropriate Behavior. She's 5'2" and finally understands the appeal of a runny egg.
Candace Williams is a Brooklyn Poets Fellow and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Sixth Finch, Bennington Review, Lambda Literary Review, Copper Nickel and elsewhere. She earned her MA in Elementary Education at Stanford University and has taken workshops at Cave Canem and Brooklyn Poets. She lives in Brooklyn with a pit bull named Madonna and tweets a little too often (@TeacherC). www.candace-williams.com
Donna Minkowitz is the author of the memoir Growing Up Golem, which Kirkus lauded for bringing "a defiant, playful energy to her difficult and dark past." She won a Lambda Literary Award for her first memoir, Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters with the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury. Minkowitz has also written for The New York Times Book Review and The Nation, and was a columnist for the Village Voice for eight years. She is the restaurant columnist for Gay City News.
Ana Božičević’s chapbooks include Morning News and Document. Her first book-length collection, Stars of the Night Commute, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist; her second book Rise in the Fall won a Lambda Literary Award. Joy of Missing Out will be published this Fall. She was born in Zagreb, Croatia; emigrated to New York City; studied at Hunter; recently worked on renovations at the Ruth Stone House in Vermont.
Sarah Sarai’s Geographies of Soul and Taffeta was published this year by Indolent Books. Her first collection was The Future Is Happy. Her poems are in Painted Bride Quarterly, Barrow Street, Threepenny Review ...; her fiction in Devil’s Lake, South Dakota Review, Tampa Review .... She reviews for Lambda Literary; is a freelance editor of poetry collections, fiction, and pharmaceutical advertising. Teaches Comp. Has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Twitter account—@SarahSarai.