Helen Klonaris at Radar Reading Series
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2017-08-13

Helen Klonaris is a Bahamian writer, educator, and energy medicine practitioner living in the Bay Area. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Let's Tell This Story Properly; Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories; Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles; The Racial Imaginary: Writers and the Life of the Mind; Calyx; Mission at Tenth; The New Guard; ProudFlesh; Sargasso; Small Axe Salon; and Poui. She was shortlisted for the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and was a finalist in the 2015 Machigonne Fiction Contest. She is co-editor of the anthology Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices, published by Trans-Genre Press, and her debut collection of short stories If I Had the Wings is due out June, 2017 with Peepal Tree Press. Helen teaches comparative mythology and religion at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.