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Saturday, May 30, 2009, 7pm Reading
with Kathleen Rooney, Brandi Homan, Becca Klaver Switchback Books is a feminist press publishing poetry by women. Founded in 2006 by a group of students at Columbia College Chicago, Switchback Books publishes two books a year, one of which is the winner of the Gatewood Prize for a first book of poetry by a woman aged 18 through 39. Brandi Homan is the author of Hard Reds (Shearsman Books, 2008). Her chapbook, Two Kinds of Arson, is available from dancing girl press. She earned her MFA at Columbia College Chicago and is editor-in-chief of Switchback Books. Kathleen Rooney was born in Beckley, West Virginia and raised in the Midwest. Along with Abby Beckel, she is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press. She is the author of Reading with Oprah: the Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas, 2005), That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness (Otoliths, 2008), a poetry collaboration with Elisa Gabbert, Oneiromance (an epithalamion), which won the the 2007 Gatewood Prize from Switchback Books, and Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object (University of Arkansas Press, 2009), an occupational memoir.
She has taught English and Creative Writing at Emerson College, Northeastern University, Grub Street, the Boston Center for Adult Education, and Pacific Lutheran University. She lives in Chicago with her husband, the writer Martin Seay. Becca Klaver was born and raised in Milwaukee, attended the University of Southern California (BA) and Columbia College Chicago (MFA), and currently lives in Chicago, where she works and teaches at Columbia. With Brandi Homan and Hanna Andrews, she co-edits the feminist poetry press Switchback Books. Recent work can be found online in No Tell Motel, H_NGM_N, and Coconut. Her chapbook, Inside a Red Corvette: A 90s Mix Tape, is available from the greying ghost press. |
