Bazaar Writers Salon

Hosted by Peter Kline

Chris Drangle is a writer from Arkansas. His fiction received a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in the Idaho Review, Epoch, Crazyhorse, and the Oxford American, among others. He recently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as the Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction, and taught creative writing to high school students in Kazakhstan. He earned an MFA at Cornell University, and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford.

A freelance writer, editor, and writing coach, Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of the recently released Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes; the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner, In Praise of Falling; and the memoir Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood, and is also co-editor with Kim Addonizio of the anthology Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos.

Danusha Laméris’s work has been published in The New York Times, American Poetry Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, New Letters, and The Sun and as well as in a variety of other journals and anthologies. Her first book, The Moons of August, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. She received a special mention in the 2015 Pushcart anthology for a poem, and her work has been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. She lives in Santa Cruz, California and teaches private writing workshops. More at Danusha Laméris.

Roberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow, a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow, and the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize. His debut collection, Angel Park, was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry, and was selected by Rigoberto Gonzalez for the L.A. Times list of 23 Essential New Books by Latino Poets.