She has also written two “Start to Finish” history books for young people: Rosa Parks: Freedom Fighter and Frederick Douglas: A Hero for All Times (1999).Ĭeleste Chan is a Hedgebrook, Lambda, and VONA fellow, and recent Sister Spit alum. She has received Pushcart recognition for her short story/poem, 'A Crowded Table'. major's poems and short stories, and essays have been published in a number of anthologies including: So Long Been Dreaming: Post-Colonial Science Fiction, Mojo: Conjurer Tales, Drum Voices Review, So Much Thing to Say, Heartspeak, Saints of Hysteria, 100 Poets Against the War, So Luminous the Wildflowers, Rites of Passage, Black Silk, Bum Rush the Page: Def Poetry Jam, Girls Like Us, Father Songs, Streetlights: Urban Stories of the Black Experience, Thoughts to Savor, I Hear A Symphony, Poetry Like Bread, and many magazines and journals including ZYZZYVA, Callaloo, and River Styx.

For over twenty years she has been a part of Daughters of Yam (a poetry performance group with Opal Palmer Adisa) which has released one book, two chapbooks, one poetry and jazz cassette and one poetry and jazz CD. She is the recipient of a 2002 California Arts Council Spoken Word Literary Arts Fellowship. released her third solo book of poetry, with more than tongue. City Lights Publishing released another book of major’s poetry, where river meets ocean, and Creative Arts Books, Inc. Curbstone Press released her second novel (which includes poetry), Brown Glass Windows to critical acclaim. Her first novel, An Open Weave, was awarded the First Novelist Award by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. San Francisco’s third former Poet Laureate, major is a part-time senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts, and poet-in-residence of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. St., San Francisco, CAĭevorah major is the author of an upcoming science fiction novel called Ice Journeys. How much: $5 to $20, all proceeds benefit the Center for Sex & Culture

Who: devorah major, Celeste Chan, Shawna Kenney, Christopher Brown, Thomas Centolella and Margaret Rhee! Featuring mind-opening speculative fiction, robot poetry, almost-human spoken word, and tons more! October's Writers With Drinks has a theme of STRANGE ROMANCE.

Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major