Bazaar Writers Salon

Readings by Micah Ballard, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Jenn Alandy Trahan, and Kathleen Winter
Hosted by Peter Kline

Micah Ballard is author of three full-length collections of poetry, Afterlives (Bootstrap Press, 2016), Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books, 2011), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press, 2009), and over a dozen small books, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter, 2014), Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006) and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press, 2001). His writing has appeared in Amerarcana, Bay Poetics, Blue Book, Boog City, Chicago Review, Drunken Boat, The Emerald Tablet, Evidence of the Paranormal, Harriet: The Poetry Foundation, H_NGM_N, LIT, LiveMag NYC!, MARY: A Journal of New Writing, PEN, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Recluse, Try!, and Vanitas, among others.

Jennifer Elise Foerster is an alumna of the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and received her MFA from the Vermont College of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship (2017), a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship (2014), and was a Robert Frost Fellow in Poetry at Breadloaf (2017) and a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford (2008-2010). A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, she teaches at the IAIA MFA Low-Residency Program, and co-directs For Girls Becoming, an arts mentorship program for Mvskoke youth in Oklahoma. Jennifer is the author of Leaving Tulsa, (2013) and Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), both published by the University of Arizona Press. This spring, she will be completing her PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver. She lives in San Francisco.

Jenn Alandy Trahan was born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Vallejo, California. She holds a BA from the University of California, Irvine, as well as an MFA and MA from McNeese State University. Though Jenn has lived in eleven cities across the country, her heart belongs to the San Francisco Giants, the Golden State Warriors, the New Orleans Saints, Seaside Donuts, Cameron Parish, Glenn, Dalton, Jean Grey, Teagan, and Keanu Reeves. Thanks to a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, she’s been able to work on her first novel.

Kathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections: I will not kick my friends (Elixir Press 2018), winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, which received the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters first book award. She was granted fellowships by the Dobie Paisano Ranch; Dora Maar House; James Merrill House, Cill Rialaig Project and Vermont Studio Center. She won the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award and Poetry Society of America The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Tin House, AGNI, New Republic, New Statesman, Yale Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, 32 Poems and other journals. She lives near Glen Ellen and teaches at Sonoma State.