Stir!

Flattered they revised this announcement on Insta... I'll take it!

About a week ago, I participated in Stir, a reading series at Cafe Suspiro in San Francisco, hosted by The Fabulist and the amazing T.K.Rex! This was a bittersweet engagement, since I filled in for a reader who had a last minute emergency, but I was honored to be asked and excited to read from The Body a Book of Conjuring.

I joined Swetha Amit, Lisa Goldstein and Edna Mira Raia on a panel reading their work in honor of "foggy season" and then of course discussing all things writing (and for Edna-- all things performance) related to it. I read a chapter introducing my character Mercury, his backstory, or the way I viewed it, his story of emerging from the fog of unknowing and to the clarity of becoming and being who he was. I'd forgotten how satisfying it can be to share your work and see it click with people.

T.K.Rex was kind enough to take photos of the evening and share them with us. Proof that I won't turn into a wildebeest if invited to speak to a live audience. I think here I was embodying the words of Renderer Augusta Lux, who is always confident and grandiose in speech... a true diva.