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FREE EVENT

Reading with Kym Ragusa, Jocelyn Lieu, Jan Clausen and Hettie Jones

Thursday, June 14th at 7pm

Freebird Books & Goods
123 Columbia St.
Btwn Kane and Degraw
Brooklyn, NY 11231

718-643-8484
www.freebirdbooks.com
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Kym Ragusa is the author of The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging, published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2006. Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Are Italians White: The Making of Race in America and The Milk of Almonds, and the journals Leggendaria and TutteStorie. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Ida and Daniel Lang Award for Excellence in the Humanities. She has taught Creative Writing at City College, Queens College, and Eugene Lang College in New York, and at Josai International University in Japan. Her films, Passing and Fuori/Outside, have been shown on PBS and at festivals throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Her video, Demarcations, had its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Skin Between Us will be translated into Italian in 2007. She is currently at work on a new book of nonfiction.

Jocelyn Lieu is the author of a 9/11 memoir titled What Isn’t There: Inside a Season of Change, published in April by Nation Books; and a collection of stories, Potential Weapons. Her work has appeared in 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11, Charlie Chan Is Dead, the Asian Pacific American Review, and the Denver Quarterly, among other anthologies and journals. Currently, she teaches writing at the New School ’s Eugene Lang College .

Jan Clausen received a New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2003. She has two poetry collections forthcoming in 2007: From a Glass House (IKON) and If You Like Difficulty (Harbor Mountain Press). Her nine previous books include a memoir, Apples and Oranges (Houghton Mifflin) and the poetry collection Duration (Hanging Loose Press). The recipient of an NEA fiction fellowship, Clausen has also published two novels and a short story collection. Her creative work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, Calyx, CrossConnect, An Ear to the Ground: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Fence, Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, Hanging Loose, The Hat, Ikon, The Kenyon Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Luna, Margie, Nightsun, North American Review, Ploughshares, Tarpaulin Sky, 13th Moon, and The Village Voice. Clausen’s book reviews and articles have appeared in a broad range of periodicals including Boston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets and Writers, and The Women’s Review of Books. A founding editor of the feminist literary journal Conditions, she has served as a panelist for NYFA and for the Lambda Literary Awards. She teaches creative writing in the Goddard College MFA Writing Program, at Eugene Lang College , and at New York University .

Hettie Jones's twenty books for children and adults include her memoir of the Beat scene, How I Became Hettie Jones; the poetry collection Drive, which won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award; Big Star Fallin’ Mama, Five Women in Black Music, honored by the New York Public Library; and No Woman No Cry, a memoir she authored for Bob Marley’s widow, Rita. Just published are From Midnight to Dawn, the Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad (with Jacqueline Tobin), and a third poetry collection, Doing 70. Jones is the former Chair of the PEN Prison Writing Committee, and the editor of Aliens at the Border, a poetry collection from her workshop at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility. She teaches at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center and in the Graduate Writing Program of The New School.