Stir: a seasonal reading series at Cafe Suspiro
Folsom Corridor's free seasonal reading series is back for Flower Season with a lineup of local writers focused on the environment, to celebrate SF Climate Week. Drop in from 5-6 for coffee social hour at Cafe Suspiro, then join us for a reading and panel at Arc Gallery in the same building. Hosted by solarpunk author T. K. Rex and Josh Wilson, editor of The Fabulist.
The lineup:
Zoe Young is a San Francisco writer. You can read her work in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Grist, Identity Theory Magazine, Anthropocene, Downbeat Magazine, and on multiple bathroom walls. Her dramatic works have been produced at Berkeley Rep and at venues throughout San Francisco. She holds an MFA from California College of the Arts, teaches Playwriting and Screenwriting at Berkeley City College, and served as Head of Creative Content for The Nature Conservancy in California. Zoe fronts a Bay Area climate punk band called The Furious Tits. Website: zoeyounghere.com
Rona Fernandez (she/they) is a writer, fundraiser, activist, dancer, wife, and stillmother (a mother with no living children) who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her non-fiction and fiction have appeared in publications such as The Master’s Review: New Voices, The Rumpus, Apparition Lit, Yes! Magazine, Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales (longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association award for Best Collection of 2023), and What God is Honored Here? An Anthology on Miscarriage and Infant Loss, the first collection of writings by Native women and women of color on this topic. Website: ronafernandez.com
Nina Schuyler’s short story collection, In this Ravishing World, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, the W.S. Porter Prize for Short Story Collections, and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature. It was also a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her novel, Afterword, won the Foreword INDIE Book of the Year Award for Literary and Science Fiction and was named a Notable 100 Book in the 2023 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition. Her novel, The Translator, won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for General Fiction and was a finalist for the William Saroyan International Writing Prize. Her novel, The Painting, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Her book, How to Write Stunning Sentences, was a Small Press Distribution bestseller, and her new craft book, Stunning Sentences: The Creative Writing Journal with 80 New Prompts from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Style. Website: ninaschuyler.com
Mark Schapiro is an award-winning investigative journalist and author specializing in the environment. His most recent book, Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply, investigates the epic struggle underway to control the seeds of food crops capable of resilience to climate change. Website: journalism.berkeley.edu/person/mschapiro