Knapp, Kline, Vossoughi, Salvatierra, + Matus

Join Tracey Knapp in celebrating her month-long Poet-in-Residence at the Bazaar Cafe with writers Peter Kline, Siamak Vossoughi, Yaccaira Salvatierra and Gerardo Pacheco Matus.

PETER KLINE teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House, James Merrill House, Marble House Project, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Five Points, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series and the 2015 Random House anthology, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. His first collection of poetry, Deviants, was published by SFASU Press in 2013.

YACCAIRA SALVATIERRA was born and raised in California. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in the The Acentos Review, Huizache, Diálogo, MiPOesías, Puerto del Sol, Rattle and Kweli among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna, has received the Dorrit Sibley Award for poetry, is the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in San José, California with her two sons.

SIAMAK VOSSOUGHI is an Iranian-American writer living in San Francisco. He has had stories published in various journals and his short story collection, Better Than War, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

GERARDO PACHECO MATUS, a Mayan native, was recipient of a 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-Study Scholarship. In 2012, The San Francisco Foundation awarded Pacheco the distinguished Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Pacheco’s poems and essays have appeared and are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press, Jambu Press, La Bloga Online Magazine, Grantmakers in the Arts, San Francisco Foundation, Spillway Magazine, Transfer Magazine, El Tecolote Newspaper, Cipactli Magazine, Amistad Howard-University, Poets Responding to SB1070, The University of Arizona Press, APRICITY PRESS, The Packinghouse Review & West Branch Wired. Pacheco was also selected to participate on “The Pintura:Palabra National Ekphrastic Workshops, in tandem with the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Travelling Exhibit, “Our America: The Latino Presence in America Art.”” Pacheco’s manuscript, Child of the Grasses, was chosen as finalist for the Andrés Montaya Poetry Prize in 2016. This summer, Pacheco joined The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and became a CantoMundo fellow.

TRACEY KNAPP’s first full-length collection of poems, Mouth, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received scholarships from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010, The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press), and has appeared in Poetry Daily, Five Points, The National Poetry Review, Red Wheelbarrow Review, The New Ohio Review and elsewhere.