LAR at the Ruskin Art Club March 13

Please join us at 2:00 pm, Sunday, March 13, for a reading of the Los Angeles Review presented by Red Hen Press, in association with the venerable Ruskin Art Club. The event will be moderated by Eloise Klein Healy, and will be followed by complimentary wine and cheese. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles’ oldest cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997. Readers include:

Andrew Allport holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. His chapbook, The Ice Ship & Other Vessels, is available from Proem Press.

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a native Angelino, and is inspired by paint on concrete and the unique and diverse history of her city. She is a literary curator for Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center and is head poetry editor for The Splinter Generation.

Marte Broehm is an educator, consultant, writer, and visual artist. Her most recent poetry is featured in Arsenic Lobster, Fall 2010. “Teanna’s Story” is Marte’s first piece of published prose. She lives in Escondido, California.

Jennine Capó Crucet’s story collection, How to Leave Hialeah, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, the John Gardner Fiction Award, and was named a Best Book of the Year by the Miami Herald and the Latinidad List.

Kathleen Gunton owes her education and imagination to nuns. No surprise that Kathleen entered a convent at the age of 17. Prose, poetry, and photography help in living her life as art.

Eugenia Leigh holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, through which she coordinated writing workshops for incarcerated men in Valhalla, NY. Eugenia’s poems have appeared in Katrika Review and Best New Poets 2010.

Thomas Patrick Levy works as an automotive repossession agent and a freelance web designer in Southern California. His writing has appeared in journals such as Pear Noir!, the New York Quarterly, PANK, and Kill Author.

Deborah A. Lott’s work has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, Salon, and elsewhere, and has been thrice named for notable essays in Best American Essays.

J. Dunn Stewart received her MFA from Brown University. Her fiction appears in Night Train and her work has been honored in storySouth’s Million Writers Awards, Best of the Net.

Steve Westbrook teaches creative writing and cultural studies at Cal State Fullerton. He also writes poems, some of which have been published in journals like RATTLE, Good Foot, Literal Latte, and Hibbleton Independent.

Eloise Klein Healy is the Founding Editor of Arktoi Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007). She directed the Women’s Studies Program at CSU Northridge and was founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her imprint with Red Hen Press, Arktoi Books, specializes in publishing the work of lesbian authors. She is currently working on a collection of new and selected poems to be published by Red Hen Press in 2013.

The Ruskin Art Club | 800 S. Plymouth Blvd. | Los Angeles, CA 90005 Admission: General $10/Students & Seniors $5 www.ruskinartclub.org