Come celebrate ZYZZYVA’s Spring/Summer issue, held at ZYZZYVA’s new home, the Mechanics’ Institute Building. Reading on this special night will be Issue No. 106 contributors Dallas Woodburn, Paul Wilner, Mauro Javier Cardenas, Ashley Nelson Levy, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Hosted by Oscar Villalon, Managing Editor.
Dallas Woodburn is a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing and a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She has published fiction and nonfiction in The Nashville Review, Fourth River, Prism Review, The Los Angeles Times, and North Dakota Quarterly, among many others, and her short story collection was a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Augury Books Prose Award. Her plays have been produced in New York City, Los Angeles, and South Lake Tahoe. She is the founder of Write On! For Literacy, an organization that empowers youth through reading and writing endeavors.
Paul Wilner is a Bay Area writer and teacher. The former editor of the San Francisco Examiner Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle Style section and the Monterey County Weekly, he has also worked as a writer and editor at The New York Times, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Hollywood Reporter. He currently teaches journalism at the Academy of Art University. He has taught in the Poetry in the Schools program in San Francisco, and his criticism has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times book sections, BarnesandNoblereview.com and, last but certainly not least, Zyzzyva.
Ashley Nelson Levy is the 2015 recipient of the Fourteen Hills Bambi Holmes Award and a Pushcart Prize nominee. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlas Review, Fourteen Hills, and ZYZZYVA. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Clein/Lemann Fellow. She lives in Oakland and, together with her husband, is the publisher of Transit Books. She is currently at work on a novel.
Soma Mei Sheng Frazier is an East Coast Native living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut fiction collection, Collateral Damage: A Triptych, won the RopeWalk Press Editor's Fiction Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared online at Eclectica Magazine, Carve Magazine, Eleven Eleven and Kore Press. Frazier is at work on a novel and a screenplay.
Mauro Javier Cardenas's interviews, essays, and stories have appeared in Music & Literature, San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, and ZYZZYVA. His first novel, The Revolutionaries Try Again, will be published by Coffee House Press in September.
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