Nicholas Friedman, Rachel Richardson + Olga Zilberbourg

Come on out for a fantastic night of writing and music at the next Bazaar Writers Salon, coming up on Sunday, April 10th in San Francisco at the Bazaar Café.

Readings by Nicholas Friedman, Rachel Richardson, and Olga Zilberbourg
Music by Kathleen Knighton
Hosted by Peter Kline

Nicholas Friedman’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times, Parnassus, POETRY, Southwest Review, Yale Review, and other publications. Friedman received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2012 and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

Kathleen Knighton grew up among the mountains and valleys of West Virginia and followed a meandering path westward to San Francisco. Her musical roots extend across the map too, ranging from folk to rock to country and blues. Knighton’s strength as a singer/songwriter can be found between the rippling lines of her new EP, Brook Stones. She has toured as a vocalist in a dozen countries and was a featured performer at the West Coast Songwriters Conference in 2013.

Rachel Richardson is the author of two books of poems, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and she has been awarded Stegner and NEA Fellowships. She lives in Berkeley and coordinates poetry events for the Bay Area Book Festival.

Olga Zilberbourg grew up in Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. Two books of her short fiction have been published in Russia; in English, her work appears in Epiphany, Printers Row, Narrative Magazine, Hobart, Santa Monica Review, J Journal, and other print and online magazines. She co-hosts the weekly San Francisco Writers Workshop that meets at Alley Cat Books on Tuesday nights.