Odd Monday Series , September 17, 7 PM
At the Noe Valley Ministry at 1021 Sanchez
Downstairs (Fellowship Hall) September 17
Time: 7 PM
FREE ADMISSION
The Odd Monday Series presents Two San Francisco Asian-American Writers
Jay Ruben Dayrit's work has appeared in several magazines, literary journals and anthologies, including Sycamore Review, Minnesota Review, Santa Clara Review, Nexus, The Yale Quarterly, WIRED Magazine, Bleach Magazine, XY Magazine, Homosex: 60 Years of Gay Erotica (Carroll & Graf), His 2: brilliant new fiction by gay men (Faber & Faber), What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future (Riverhead Books). He has been the recipient of the Headlands Center for the Arts Artist-in-Residence Grant and the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artists Grant. He has a MA in English: Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a BA in Theatre Studies: Playwriting from Yale. Originally from Kolonia, Pohnpei, in the Federated State of Micronesia, he now lives and works in San Francisco.
Brian Komei Dempster's poems have appeared in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Bellingham Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Fourteen Hills, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, New England Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, Post Road, Prairie Schooner, River Styx, Quarterly West as well as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004) and Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House Press, 2003). He has received a Creative Artist Grant from the Arts Foundation of Michigan and an Individual Artist Commission from the San Francisco Arts Commission. He is the editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in America's Concentration Camps (Kearny Street Workshop, 2001) and teaches at the University of San Francisco.