Join us at Sideshow on February 8th with readers Melissa Gira Grant, Rohin Guha, Aimee Herman, and Christa Orth.
Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival – Achilles’ Heel
Hosted by Cheryl B. & Sinclair Sexsmith
Tuesday, February 8th @ The Phoenix
447 East 13th Street @ Avenue A
Doors, 7:30pm. Reading, 8pm
Free! (We’ll pass the hat for the readers)
About the Readers:
Melissa Gira Grant (melissagira.com) is the editor of Coming & Crying (comingandcrying.com), an anthology of real stories about sex. You can find her creative nonfiction in Cleis Press’ Best Sex Writing 2008 and Girl Crush, Seal Press’ Dirty Girls, and the webzine Filthy Gorgeous Things. Melissa has also contributed reporting and commentary on sex, sex work, politics and the internet for Gawker Media’s Valleywag and Jezebel, Slate, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and Alternet.
Rohin Guha has had conversations with rock’n’roll queens, pop stars, painters, actors, and a maenad. Released in December 2010 through Birds of Lace, Relief Work is his first collection of short stories. He is also hard at work on his first novel. He tends to laugh a little too loudly.
Aimee Herman, a queer performance poet, hates labels, though sometimes wears one to rip off and count the hairs pulled. She has performed at various gay prides, poetry festivals, erotic salons and sex shops. Aimee’s erotica can be read in Best Lesbian Love Stories 2010 (Alyson Books), Best Women’s Erotica 2010 (Cleis Press) and the upcoming Nice Girls, Naughty Sex (Cleis Press). Her poetry can be read in Uphook Press’s latest anthology, hell strung and crooked and various lit journals such as InStereo Press, and/or journal, Pregnant Moon Review and Cliterature Journal. She works as an erotica editor for Oysters & Chocolate, has taught various writing workshops dealing with the body and erotic language and has a severe fondness for gender deconstructors, curly haired humans, and Canadians.
Christa Orth is a fifth-generation Pacific Northwesterner, and a creative nonfiction writer based in Brooklyn. She works for StoryCorps, the nation’s largest oral history project, and writes for the ACT UP Oral History Project. Christa is writing her first book on the queer history of the Pacific Northwest. She is a 2010 Lambda Literary Fellow.