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 September 12 to hear Writing Salon instructors, Alison Luterman and Jennifer Lewis, read with their two students, Lorna Thomson and Tanis O'Connor.
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, September 11.
Alison Luterman is the author of four books of poetry, including In the Time of Great Fires and Desire Zoo, and an e-book of personal essays, Feral City. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Sun, Rattle, The Atlanta Review, Catamaran, and many other journals and anthologies. She also writes song lyrics, plays, and is interested in hybrid forms. She has been teaching at The Writing Salon for over twenty years, and has also taught through Poets in the Schools, at New College, at Esalen and Omega Institutes and at workshops and conferences around the country. To learn more, you can visit www.alisonluterman.net.
Orphaned by fourteen and raised in Apartheid-era South Africa, Lorna Thomson learned early that the political is always personal. At eighteen, she emigrated alone to the United States, where she spent decades as a hospital physician before turning to writing. Her memoir and essays circle themes of grief, resilience, belonging, and the search for home.
Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and the publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low, is published by Black Lawrence Press. Jennifer won the Nomadic Press Bindle Award for her short story, “New Low,” and the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction award for “Put a Teat in It.” She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. She teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
Tanis O’Connor began writing in her teens, when she was a horse girl, before horse girls were a thing, and when she thought horses would be in her life forever. In her early 20s, when she was immortal, she wrote erotic poetry and fearlessly performed spoken word. Many mortal years later, she’s performing spoken word again—not as fearlessly but maybe more courageously—and writing stories of loss and revelation, while trying to conjure a subtle magical realism.