With an installment each season of the year, The Salon Reading Series features readings with our beloved teachers and their students.
Come on out to our San Francisco location on May 16 to hear Writing Salon instructors, Katharine Harer and Lauren Krauze, read with their two students, David Mealy and Charnay Augustin.
This free event will take place at The Writing Salon's San Francisco classroom. To ensure a seat at the reading, please RSVP by 5pm on Friday, May 15.
Charnay Augustin, a Maryland native, is a writer and attorney with an endless curiosity about the human mind. Her work delves into themes of identity, healing, and personal transformation, seeking emotional clarity and truth at the intersection of introspection and becoming. She is delighted to share her writing with The Writing Salon community.
Katharine Harer loves teaching creative writing. She has worked with hundreds, maybe thousands, of students in her over thirty-year career as a community college writing teacher at Skyline College and as a private workshop instructor. Katharine has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent, Deconfliction, in 2020, and a full-length volume of poems, Jazz & Other Hot Subjects, in 2016. Her poetry and nonfiction have been published widely in literary journals, newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Her travel essay Delle Donne appeared in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2016 and a personal essay, Blue Flags & Painted Crosses, is forthcoming from Sonora Review in Tucson.
Lauren Krauze is a writer, editor, and writing educator based in San Francisco. Her essays, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Hobart, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Seventh Wave, and elsewhere. She was raised in New York’s Hudson Valley and lived in New York City for over 20 years. During that time, she received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School and taught writing at Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. Lauren currently teaches writing classes in the Bay Area and also works with individual writers and artists.
David Mealy made his way to novel-writing through supportive writing communities like The Writing Salon in San Francisco and the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. He was raised in Berkeley, educated at Santa Cruz and schooled by New York City, where his son now lives. David lives in San Francisco with his wife Barbara.