This Month's Reading

Featured Readers: June 2010

Wednesday June 16, 2010 @ 7PM

NOTE: Queer Voices' special Pride reading* will be held at:
Intermedia Arts | 2822 Lyndale Ave S. | Minneapolis, MN 55408

Carrie Devall writes science fiction and fantasy short stories as well as literary fiction and poetry, and attended the Clarion West speculative fiction workshop in 2007. She won first prize in the 2010 Odyssey Con Speculative Fiction Contest, and her poem “Highsmith” made the short list in the Chroma Magazine Fall 2009 queer literary competition. Her book reviews and essays have appeared in the blog and newsletter of Aqueduct Press, a feminist science fiction publisher. After spending her formative years as a rowdy queer, anti-racist and AIDS activist, she has practiced public interest law in San Francisco, Tucson, and the Twin Cities.

Andrea Jenkins is an Award winning poet and writer. She has been named a Givens Foundation Fellow, and she has won the Loft Mentor Series, a 2010 VERVE grant, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference scholarship. In June she will earn her MFA in Creative Writing at Hamline University. As a poet and writer, her work has appeared in several local publications including The Minneapolis Spokesman and Recorder, The City of Minneapolis Website, The Minneapolis Observer, The International Journal of Transgenderism, and The Powderhorn Writers Festival.

Ellen Lansky was born in Minneapolis and grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. She played sports in high school, and then took up English. She attended the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul (BA); SUNY-Binghamton (MA), and the University of Minnesota (PhD). Her short fiction has appeared in Sugar Mule, Evergreen Chronicles, Common Ground, Vinyl Arts, New North Artscape, and Stiller's Pond, and her scholarly work on women writers and alcoholism has appeared in Dionysos, Literature and Medicine, and several anthologies. Currently, she teaches literature, composition, and creative writing at Inver Hills Community College, and she lives in Minneapolis with her daughter.

For fifteen years, Steve Lenius’ Leather Life column has appeared in Lavender, Minnesota’s GLBT magazine. His writings also have appeared in The Leather Journal, Skin Two (a fetish magazine published in London, UK), the 2008 Yearbook of the BDSM Creative Collective (Minneapolis/St. Paul), Leather Tribe Leather Nation (a yearbook published by The Leather Journal), The Petal and the Thorn (newsletter of Black Rose Society, Washington, D.C.), International Leatherman and Roundup (magazines for the GLBT leather and country/western/rodeo communities published by Brush Creek Media).

John Medeiros’ work has appeared in several journals, including Sport Literate, Water~Stone Review; Gulf Coast; Willow Springs; Gents, Badboys and Barbarians; Evergreen Chronicles; Swell and Christopher Street. He is the recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board grants; a Jerome Foundation Grant for Emerging Writers; Gulf Coast's First Place Nonfiction Award (Wayne Koestenbaum, judge); and the AWP Intro Journals Project Award. He received an MFA from Hamline University, and his work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays of 2006. For more information on John, please visit his website.

A native of Latvia, Ilze Klavina Mueller now makes her home in Minnesota where she writes poetry and memoir and translates literature and nonfiction from Latvian (the poems of Vizma Belsevica) and German (Christa Reinig's Idleness Is the Root of All Love). Her poetry has been published in Looking for Home, Milkweed Edition's Women Writing about Exile, 100 Words, The Hedgebrook Journal, Water~Stone, Calyx, and the Laurel Poetry Collective anthologies A New Name for the Sun, Pulling for Good News, and Bluefire. A collection of her poems, Gate, was published by Laurel in 2003.

Transgender Playwright & Memoir Writer, Elijah Rose, is a 52 year old Jewish, Sober, Feminist, Transman living in St Paul, MN. Born female, he has been living as male for 12 years. His writings include the uncensored everyday snapshots of living as transgender.