John Jodzio w/ Folk, Madden, + Vernor

The Booksmith presents John Jodzio, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk, Dave Madden, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There, and Kara Vernor, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song.

Knockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream.

John Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis.

Kate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Colorado Review,Puerto del Sol, Joyland, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk.

Dave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Rappahannock Review, The Normal School, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco.

Kara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf, No Tokens, PANK, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, is available from Split Lip Press.