14 Hill Vol. 12.2 Release Party

Wednesday, May 24, 2006 @ 7pm

Release Party / Issue 12.2

Varnish Gallery, www.varnishfineart.com/
77 Natoma Street
between 1st and 2nd St. and Mission and Howard

Join us in celebrating the release of our latest issue, No. 12 Vol. 2. Raffle and snacks to follow! Shown art and readings by the following included contributors:

Readers:

Gania Barlow is a veteran of SFSU’s undergraduate creative writing program, to which she is indebted for introducing her to the short short. She is currently pursuing a masters in literature at Mills College, focusing on pre-18th-century English lit. Her creative work recently appeared in Agni Magazine and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Tanesia Hale Jones is a graduate of Loyola University New Orleans and an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University. She is currently writing her thesis on cowboys and cowgirls. She lives and works in Oakland, where she plays trains, bakes carrot cakes, and applies action hero tattoos with her son, Harlow Raeyce.

Scott Garson teaches writing at Santa Clara University. Recent stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Orleans Review, Puerto del Sol, and Quick Fiction.

Julie Doxsee holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a PhD candidate in the poetry program at the University of Denver. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Retort Magazine, Shampoo, Eratio Postmodern Poetry, Word For/Word, can we have our ball back, Elimae, Coconut Poetry, Denver Quarterly, The Colorado Review, Conduit, Typo, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Crudeoils, Double Room, GutCult, Versal, and other journals. She was born in London, Ontario.

David Lau lives in Santa Cruz, where he teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, VOLT, Denver Quarterly, Pool, and other magazines.

Art:

Jenny DuPont is an artist and designer living in San Francisco. Originally from the east coast, Jenny was born and raised on the coast of Maine. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2000 she received her BFA in illustration from Parsons. In 2001, after working in advertising for a year, she left New York City for San Francisco, where she is employed as a graphic designer. Jenny is a participant in the San Francisco Open Studios and the City College of San Francisco Holiday Print Sale at Fort Mason. www.jennydupont.com

Joshua Hagler has had work selected in American Illustration, was nominated for a San Francisco Emerging Artist of 2005 award, shown work throughout the west coast, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, and has done work on children's books, novel covers, editorial illustration, concept art and storyboards for film, the web, and comic books. If you want to know about upcoming projects, releases, exhibitions, and events, please check out www.joshhagler.com

Raffle Prizes, Buy a Book get FREE raffle tickets:
10 Starbucks Gift Baskets
$10 Starbucks Gift Cards
$25 Black Oak Books
2 Tixs to Berkeley Rep

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