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O C T O B E R16THURSDAY6:30 PMMFA Mixer 2.0: Litquake EditionEvery third Thursday of the month, graduate students from the Bay Area’s various MFA programsmingle, drink, read, listen, and finally dance until 2 am. The public is greatly welcomed. Litquake’sMixer 2.0 is curated by Sean Labrador y Manzano, Nick Johnson, and Jeff Von Ward.Cat Club1190 Folsom St.FREE21+ ♿CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTSTrinidad Escobar is a poet and cartoonistfrom Oakland. She is currently working on apoetry manuscript and two graphic novels.trinidadescobar.comAlex Gilliam was born at the foot of the Alamo.Everyone was dancing. She is a MFA candidateat California College of the Arts. She writespoetry and lives in Oakland with her cat.MILLS COLLEGEPerla Yasmeen Melendez is a writer, artist,teacher, and chef. She is all of these things, allthe time. She is currently running her own popuprestaurant, and working on her MFA thesisshow.Emji Spero is an Oakland-based artist exploringthe intersections of writing, installation, andperformance. Spero serves as an editor atTimeless, Infinite Light press, and uses foundlanguage and erasure to strange the familiar andmap the boundaries of collective engagement.SAINT MARY’S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIACandace Eros Diaz writes in the dreamy spacewhere fact and fiction collide. She discoveredher affinity to stretch genre at Saint Mary’s,where she received her MFA in both creativenonfiction and fiction.Kelsay Elizabeth Myers interrogatesfoundations of a shifting identity, strobes itsmyth, adopts its reality, or lives cloudlike andwatches waves propagate from Midwesternshores as she traces limits of personal narrativeto Korea. kelsayelizabethmyers.comSAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITYJennifer Lewis is a freelance writer andrecipient of the 2012 Leo Litwak award. Sheedits Red Light Lit (redlightlit.com) readingseries and literary journal. Her nonfictionappears in Red Herring, Forbes, and SanFrancisco. Her fiction appears in Transfer,Fourteen Hills, and sPARKLE & bLINK.Shadia Savo is currently editor-in-chief ofFourteen Hills, an MA candidate in fiction atSFSU, and is trying to finish her first book.SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITYJeffrey Haid is an MFA student at San JoseState University. His work has appeared ininnumerable workshops, emails to friendsweary of the same work, and on his mother’sfridge.Sarah Lyn Rogers is this year’s winner of theAcademy of American Poets-Virginia de Araujoprize. When she isn’t writing, she copyedits forSociety of Young Inklings and selects shortfiction for The Rumpus.UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCOTony DeGenaro is an Ohio native, currentlyliving in Oakland. His poems appear in WritingWithout Walls, Rusted Radishes, andelsewhere.Inge Lamboo is a fiction writer fromAmsterdam. She will graduate this fall with herMFA from the University of San Francisco, andis working on a novel set during the devastating2009 forest fires in southeastern Australia.58