Stories on Stage Davis will be beginning their month literary event on September 14th featuring:
Lori Ostlund’s novel After the Parade (Scribner, 2015) was shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a Barnes and Noble Discover pick. Her first book, a story collection entitled The Bigness of the World, won the 2008 Flannery O’Connor Award, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, and the 2009 California Book Award for First Fiction. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, among other places. Lori has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award and was a finalist for the 2017 Simpson Family Literary Prize. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with her wife, son, and cats, though she spent her formative years in Minnesota, cat-less.
Kelley Ogden will read “The Bus Driver” by Lori Ostlund. Kelley is the co-founded of KOLT Run Creations.
Jessica Guerrieri lives in Davis California with her husband and 3 daughters. Jessica has a background teaching special education, but she left the field to pursue her passion for writing and to raise her girls. She is a vocal advocate for recovery with over 12 years of sobriety.
Her debut literary book club fiction novel Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, won the Maurice Prize for fiction from her alma matter UC Davis.
Atim Udoffia will read an excerpt from The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, by Jessica Guerrieri. She is an actor, director, and mother of two working in theatre and film/video in the Sacramento and Bay Area.
Free (donations accepted)
