Swan Day Feminist Showcase

Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers falls on SWAN day! Support Women Artists Now! Wear anything with swans on it!!!

Featuring:
Ginger Cuervas
Emily Butterfly
Aqueila M. Lewis
Steffi Drewes
Leslie Absher
Nana K. Twumasi
Natalie Devora
Sara McAulay
Kathryn Kruse
Ai Ebashi
Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Marguerite Munoz

Ginger Cuervas

Art3mis//
Mother, Emcee, Painter
Afro Borinquen, carrying on the spirit of my grandmothers
Hija del sol y la agua
The Projects raised me
Heart full of Brooklyn
Feet planted in Oakland

Emily Butterfly is an interstellar story teller who lives to delight children with her magically unique form of puppetry, storytelling and song. She has had the honor of creating shows and performing for thousands and thousands of preschoolers and elementary school students and feels blessed to have the abilities to create her own puppet friends, write and perform inspirational tales. Her voice has dazzled ears through her voice over career with Free Range Graphics and Cartoon Network and a three year stint as the producer and hostess of a children’s radio program.Her wide vocal range, uniquely magical ideas and intuitive approach to entertaining young children has bloomed her into a very successful edutainer.
She loves the stage and aspires to delight and inspire millions with her magic.
www.emilybutterfly.com

Nana K. Twumasi lives and writes in Oakland, CA. An alum of California College of the Arts MFA Program in Writing, her work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Sou’Wester Journal, Ballyhoo Stories, and Eleven Eleven. She is the co-editor of Monday Night, a journal of new literature.

Sara McAulay grew up in Virginia and did time in New Jersey, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of short fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Arroyo Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, California Quarterly, The Literary Review, Lodestar Quarterly, North American Review, Third Coast and ZYZZYVA, among others. She edited the online journal Tattoo Highway from 1998 – 2013. Sara has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. From 1984 to 2008 she taught creative writing and literature at CSU East Bay. She is now retired, a state that suits her very, very well. Ten years ago she took up the sport of dog agility. Weekends often find her pretending to be much younger and much less politically engaged than she really is, chasing after her two fast Australian Shepherd dogs. Sara has two grandchildren in Portland OR, and a step-granddaughter in college in Hawaii. In 2014, after 21 years together, she and her partner made honest women of each other at last.

Ai Ebashi is a writer-translator-illustrator who is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at San Francisco State University. Originally from Japan, she has spent the majority of her adult-life living in various parts of the United States as well as in Istanbul, Turkey, where she received her MA in English Literature and worked as a journalist, translator/interpreter, children’s book author, yoga instructor and olive cracker (volunteer.) In 2015, she decided to settle down in the Bay Area and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is currently a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Her playwriting credits include One Day(Breach Once More, Fringe,) Puppet Show (GreenHouse Festival, SFSU Fringe-Goes-Long,) The Pursuit of Happiness (SFSU Fringe) Reversi and Reincarnation (Berkeley Rep School of Theater,) and her publications include Öykü Denizi (National Geographic) and Colors, translations of Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poetry (New American Writing.)

Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula. Their first book, The Easy Body, is due to be published this spring by Oakland press Timeless Infinite Light. They live in San Francisco.