The Odd Mondays Series

The Odd Mondays Series at Folio Books

Monday, May 15th, 7 PM

3957 24th Street, San Francisco

A LITERARY POTPOURRI

Featuring Authors: Erika Atkinson, Michael Helquist, Andrew McIntyre, Laynie Tzena.

FREE ADMISSION

ERIKA ATKINSON signed up with the Canadian Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., for several years, after which she worked in administrative positions in schools, colleges, and universities across Canada, the United States, and various parts of Europe before settling in Bernal Heights in 1984. She is the author of five books. Two of them, Happily Lost in Time and Place, and More Miles and Moments, are collected stories about adventures of happenstance, about characters, situations, and experiences that were never planned. In her book Frozen Stillness, she recounts her journey to Antarctica in 2010. Her first collection of poetry, Exhort the Goddesses, was compiled in 2015 to honor the Supreme Court’s historic decision that same sex marriage be declared legal across the United States. The most recent book, Ode to the Castro, is her dedication to the neighborhood she loves, where she has now lived and played for nearly two decades.

MICHAEL HELQUIST is an awarding-winning author, journalist, and historian. He has published in “Ms. Magazine,” “The Advocate”, “American Medical News”, and “The Oregon Historical Quarterly.” As a medical journalist, he consulted for the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and the U.S. State Department. He was inspired to write the biography, Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions, because of Dr. Equi’s fierce struggle as an outsider to achieve independence, and her commitment to social and economic justice. Helquist lived in Noe Valley for five years before relocating to the North Panhandle neighborhood.

After years of traveling, ANDREW McINTYRE has found a settled existence in San Francisco. He attended universities in England, Scotland, Japan, and the United States, and holds master’s degrees in Economics and Comparative Literature. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including “The Mississippi Review,” “3:AM Magazine”, “Long Story Short”, “The Copperfield Review”, and “Pindeldyboz.” In 2002, he was a finalist in Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize. His short story collection, The Short, the Long, and the Tall, was published by Merilang Press in December, 2010. He lives in San Francisco.

LAYNIE TZENA is a writer, performer, and visual artist based in San Francisco. Her work has been published in “Bayou”, “Event”, “The Michigan Quarterly Review”, “Sonora Review”, and “Zone 3,” among others; she has received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry, was named on of the “New Voices in Michigan Poetry”, and has been a Cranbrook Fiction Scholar. “Glimmer Train” recently included her short story, “Egg,” in the top 25 of its “Family Matters” competition. Tzena has been a featured performer at the Austin International Poetry Festival, the Marsh Café, the Monkey House, and on Michigan Public Radio.

Consider joining us for a no-host pizza/salad or other entré dinner ($15-20), before the reading, 5:30 p.m. at the Haystack Pizza Restaurant, south side of 24th near Sanches Street.

The 24 line and the 48 line and the J Church are the nearby Muni transportation lines available.

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Odd Mondays is presented by Judith and Ramón Sender and Folio Books.

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd.” -Flannery O’Connor