Apocalypse Now What?

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Location
Forest Books

Time
6:00 - 7:00 pm

It’s predicted that the world will end in 2012 — one week after Lit Crawl — yet life goes on. These emerging writers from Kearny Street Workshop all deal with disaster: natural, epic, and everyday

Maria T. Allocco is a second-generation Korean-Italian writer, educator, and artist who lives, loves, and breathes ocean air on the U.S. edge of the Pacific.

Chiwan Choi is a writer, editor, and publisher. His first poetry collection, The Flood (Tía Chucha Press) was published in 2010. chiwanchoi.com

Bill Gong worked as a customer service representative, janitor, and butcher before working in software development for 15 years. He is now unemployed. thickblackframe.com

Will Gutierrez is a Filipino writer living in Berkeley. He writes about angst, awkwardness, and everyday spirituality. He thinks the Apocalypse will whimper, not bang.

Lisa Hsia is a transdisciplinary artist who combines text and image to create new expressions. satsumaart.wordpress.com.

Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan-American writer who has written two novels about the Sri Lankan civil war. nayomimunaweera.com