The Biscuit Reading Series Continues with THREE new books from Marsh Hawk Press and Spuyten Duyvil
Join us on Sunday
April 29th 6:00PM
at Biscuit BBQ - 5th Ave & President in Park Slope, Brooklyn
as three awesome writers join forces for Biscuit!
N, R to Union, Park Slope, Brooklyn
Rochelle Ratner – reading from her new book Balancing Act
Claudia Carlson – reading from her new book The Elephant House
Sarah White – reading from her new book Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson
Rochelle Ratner is an author, poet, dramatist and visual artist whose contemporary and innovative work transcends any one genre or description.Her books include two novels and sixteen poetry books, most recently Beggars at the Wall (Ikon, 2006) and Balancing Acts (Marsh Hawk, 2006). An anthology she edited, Bearing Life: Women’s Writings on Childlessness, was published in 2000 by The Feminist Press. More information can be found on her homepage: www.rochelleratner.com
The multi-talented Claudia Carlson is auothor, quilt designer, cartographer, calligrapher, illustrator, book designer and website designer. She is also co-founder of the writing group River Writers of Manhattan. Her work was included in the anthology The Breath of Parted Lips II: Poems from the Robert Frost Place, CavanKerry Press, 2004 and she’s the co-editor of the anthology, The Poet’s Grimm: Twentieth Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales, Story Line Press, 2003. She co-authored The Bulgarian Americans in 1990. Divide, The Cream City Review and Gargoyle Magazine have published her photographs. On Sundays, she paints watercolors (see her work at www.claudiagraphics.com). She is a senior book designer at Oxford University Press and lives in New York City with her family.
Author Sarah White’s poetry, memoirs, tales, translations, and libretti reflect her tenure as a Professor of Romance Literature at Franklin and MarshallCollege. Her verse has appeared in the Paris Review, Harvard Review, OC (a Toulouse journal of Occitan letters) and other magazines, and has been set to music by Kristina Boerger, John Carbon, and Tanya León. Her prose writings include a memoir chapter, “The Jews of Spain,” published in Southwest Review, and she is co-translator of Songs of the Women Troubadours (Bruckner et al., Garland Press, 2000). She has been a Fellow of the VirginiaCenter for the Creative Arts and The MacDowell Colony.
