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 January 24 to hear Writing Salon instructors, Ann Guy and Andy Touhy, read with their two students, Julie Hiatt and Sean Marciniak.
This free event will take place at The Writing Salon's San Francisco location. To ensure a seat at the reading, please RSVP by 5pm on Friday, January 23.
Ann Guy is a writer and recovering engineer who was born in the Philippines, grew up among the cornfields and cow patties of Western Michigan, and now lives in Oakland, California with her husband and two kids. She writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has been featured in Riverteeth, Hippocampus, CRAFT Literary, Southeast Review, Sweet Lit, Entropy, MUTHA, Ekphrastic Review, Literary Mama, and Motherwell. A graduate of MIT, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State University, her favorite spaces are learning environments. She has taught creative writing classes at San Francisco State University and private workshops in the East Bay.
Julie Hiatt is an attorney who enjoys how creative writing allows her to exercise different parts of her brain. She grew up in Boston and just outside Washington, D.C., and lived in New York for 12 years before moving to Oakland, which is now home.
Sean Marciniak‘s fiction has appeared in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year and various mystery, literary, and science fiction magazines. Some of his work can be found at www.seanmarciniak.com.
Andrew R. Touhy is the author of Designs for a Magician’s Top Hat, winner of the inaugural Yemassee Fiction Chapbook Prize. He is also a recipient of the San Francisco Browning Society’s Dramatic Monologue Award and Fourteen Hills Bambi Holmes Award for Emerging Writers. Stories from Secret of Mayo, his full-length collection and a finalist for the BOA Short Fiction Prize, have appeared in Conjunctions, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, New American Writing, The Collagist, Colorado Review, and other literary magazines. He holds graduate degrees in literature and creative writing and has taught at SFSU, Academy of Art, and Ohio University.