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SATURDAYO 11C T O B E RMary Mackey is author of 13 novels andseven volumes of poetry including Sugar Zone,winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Award, andTravelers With No Ticket Home (Marsh HawkPress, 2014). marymackey.comAimee Suzara is a Filipino-American poet, playwright,and performer. David Mura lauded herdebut poetry book, Souvenir (WordTech Editions,2014), as “a powerful meditation on history andthe legacies of race, family and identity.”2 PM Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, & IntimacyRomance, dating, sex, and...Muslims? In this groundbreaking anthology, American Muslim menoffer frank, funny, and insightful glimpses into their hearts—and bedrooms.Alykhan Boolani writes short stories, listensto Coltrane, and rides motorcycles withcaution.Stephen Leeper is a schoolteacher and MFAcandidate in writing at the California College ofthe Arts. His primary genres are poetry andcreative nonfiction.Ayesha Mattu (moderator) is editor of Love,InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of AmericanMuslim Women and Salaam, Love: AmericanMuslim Men on Love, Sex, & Intimacy.Randy Nasson is a writer and softwareproduct manager based in San Francisco wherehe lives with his wife and son.Mohammed Samir Shamma writes codeintended for computers, but writes andillustrates stories after his two kids, Kareemand Leila, are asleep.Yousef “Dr. Yo-Yo” Turshani is a writer andassistant clinical professor of pediatrics at theUniversity of California, San Francisco.3:30 PM The Californian NovelistDoes living in the Golden State inspire a certain type of narrative? Discover the variety ofCalifornian writers with readings from four homegrown novelists.Andrew O. Dugas is author of the novelSleepwalking in Paradise (Numina Press,2014). His work has appeared in Instant City,LITNIMAGE, Mixer, SoMa Literary Review, andmany other places.Anne Germanacos is author of Tribute(Rescue Press, 2014) and In the Time of theGirls (BOA Editions, 2010). She and herhusband ran the Ithaka Cultural Study Programin Greece, and she runs the GermanacosFoundation in San Francisco.Judy Juanita is author of the novel Virgin Soul(Viking, 2013), about a young black womanjoining the Black Panther Party in the ’60s. Shehas also written plays and poetry; a collectionof essays is forthcoming.Novelist, poet, and essayist Elizabeth Rosneris author of two highly acclaimed bestsellingnovels, The Speed of Light and Blue Nude. Hernewest books are Electric City: A Novel andGravity, a poetry collection.Josh Weil is author of the novel The GreatGlass Sea. His debut collection The New Valleywas awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters, andhe is a National Book Award “Five UnderThirty-Five” author.5 PM Radical Comics and World War 3Award-winning artists Eric Drooker and Chuck Sperry show their most controversial workand discuss integrating politics and art into radically political graphics. Their collective longlist of accolades includes the new 35-year retrospective of the left-wing World War 3Illustrated (PM Press, 2014).15