Laurie Stone at Radar Reading Series
Channel: San Francisco Public Library
Date: 2015-01-10

Laurie Stone is author of three books of fiction and nonfiction. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, she has been theater critic for The Nation, critic-at-large on Fresh Air, and a member of The Bat Theater Company. She has received grants from among others The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Kittredge Foundation, Yaddo, MacDowell, Djerassi, and the Albee Colony. She received the Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book Critics Circle. Her stories and memoirs have appeared in Open City, Anderbo, Joyland, Nanofiction, The Los Angeles Review, New Letters, TriQuarterly, Threepenny Review, and Creative Nonfiction. In 2005, she participated in "Novel: An Installation," writing a book and living in a house designed by architects Salazar/Davis in Flux Factory's gallery space. She is currently at work on My Life as an Animal, a Memoir in Stories and The Love of Strangers, Micro, Flash, and Short Fiction by Laurie Stone. Laurie will be teaching a flash fiction writing workshop at the Djerassi Art Colony in Woodside, Ca February 13-18. http://www.djerassi.org/2015LaurieStone_workshop.html