October 13, 2011 Thursday: 5:00 – 7:30
Posada San Francisco (across from the Jardin)
70 peso Donation * 50 pesos for Sala Members
Complimentary Wine Reception
Lynda Schor & Fay Hart
Lynda Schor has published five collections of short fiction. Her most recent is, SEDUCTION: Stories of Love & Art, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press.
She has had stories and articles in magazines such as Ms., Playboy, GQ, Redbook, Mademoiselle, Cream City Review, Literal Latte, Confrontation, and The Village Voice, and many others. Stories of hers have appeared in many anthologies, most recently, Wreckage of Reason, an Anthology of XXperimental Women Writers.
Her story “Still the Top Banana” (published in Witness) was nominated for an O’Henry Award, and her story “Mappelthorpe Briefs” (published in Quarter After Eight) won First Prize for Prose.
She’s received two Maryland State Arts Council grants and a Baltimore CityArts grant for fiction and many other awards.
She is fiction editor for the online literary magazines Salt River Review, and Hamilton Stone Review. Schor has been Writer-in-Residence at many colleges.
After 25 years of teaching fiction writing at The New School, she has moved to San Miguel de Allende with her husband, the poet Halvard Johnson, where she is continuing a long career as a writing coach, working with writers online and in person on their manuscripts.
Fay Hart is a poet and self-awareness teacher. She was born on April 18, 1955 in Macclesfield, England, the first stopping-off point on her family’s immigration route to America from Ireland. She was raised in Chicago, then Indiana and finally Florida, where she dropped out of school and made her way to California, working at a variety of jobs while recording her adventures in a series of pamphlets titled Don’t Kiss Me, I’m Busy.
In 1977, she moved to London where she remained for thirty years. Her poems are widely published in literary journals and several notable anthologies.
Yard Sale is her first full-length collection. Fay now divides her time between Florida and San Miguel de Allende, where she writes, offers workshops and inspires others by her courageous example of living as a free spirit.
“Fay Hart is everything a modern poet should be – adventurous, vivid, funny, surprising, readable. Her poems delight even when they cry. Like slides under a microscope they dazzle with their close-ups of a strange and familiar world. Yard Sale will prove a revelation to all lovers of highly original poetry. An instant classic.” – Hugo Williams
“Fay is the William Eggleston of poetry.” ~ K. K. Barrett
“Fay Hart is the woman in the famous X song, Los Angeles. And yes, she did leave. She went to London, Spain, Florida and Mexico. She left with pen and paper and dreams. This is a long-awaited volume of poetry. Travel with Fay Hart through her stories of strange men and yard sales, boulevards and highways in these deftly crafted evocative poems.” ~ Exene Cervenka