Well-RED: Kate Folk + Lisa Locascio

Doors open at 6:30pm and performance begins at 7:00pm.
Free appetizers and copies of Porter Gulch Review 2016.
Affordable wine, beer and soda.
Open mic will follow the performance.

Kate Folk’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Juked, Colorado Review, the Baltimore Review, Puerto del Sol, Tin House online, and Joyland, among other publications. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, has been profiled by the literary blogs Great Writers Steal and The Masters Review, and for SF Weekly’s author interview series, “The Write Stuff.” She was a 2014 San Francisco Writers’ Grotto fellow, has received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, and was a 2016 fiction finalist for the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellowships. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. Originally from Iowa, she lived in New York for five years before moving to San Francisco in 2008, where she still lives and works as a college English instructor and as a prose editor for the literary journal Your Impossible Voice.

Lisa Locascio was born in Chicago and raised in River Forest, Illinois. Her writing appears in The Believer, Salon, n+1, Tin House Flash Fridays, Bookforum, Santa Monica Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and many other journals. She has held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Prairie Center of the Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and received honors and support for her writing from the National Association for the Advancement of the Arts, New York University, Western Michigan University, the University of Southern California, the Del Amo Foundation, and many other institutions. Lisa is the first and only Anglophone writer to be granted an interview with Roberto Bolaño’s widow Carolina López. Her writing about Bolaño has received mention in The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times. Her fiction and criticism has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, translated into Italian, anthologized, and honored with awards including the 2011 John Steinbeck Award for Fiction, the 2014 Robbins Memorial Emerging Writer Award fromSou’wester, and a 2014 Dorys Grover Award from the Western Literature Association. Lisa holds two degrees from New York University, where her master’s thesis was advised by Lydia Davis, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California, where her dissertation was advised by Aimee Bender. She has held teaching appointments in creative writing and literature at New York University, the University of Southern California, the University of California, Los Angeles, Colorado College, Mount Saint Mary’s University, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, and through various tutoring and mentorship organizations across the United States.

While completing her doctorate, Lisa cofounded the chapbook micropress Gold Line Press and its imprint Ricochet Editions. She is the editor of California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State, Vol. 4, which will be published in 2017 by Outpost19 Books, as well as of the California editions of the fiction magazine Joyland and at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is Lecturer of Scandinavian Studies at UCLA.