Brown Handler Writer's Residency
At Friends Of The
San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco Public Library
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Friends is excited to announce the writers chosen for the 2021 class of the Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Writer’s Residency. These five writers will spend a year at Friends’ studio at the Donation Center to pursue their writing projects and share their talents with the community. The Residency, funded through Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler's generosity, is designed to nurture emerging and established writers by guaranteeing them access to free, adequate space and bringing them into direct collaboration with the Library for literary activities. This program honors the long connection between the public Library and the literary world. As Daniel puts it,
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Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
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There would be no libraries without writers--and there would be no writers without libraries. We're very proud to help provide, in a city increasingly unaffordable to artists, a space in which our local writers can work, to ensure the survival of both.
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Yalitza Ferreras is a fiction writer. The recipient of a 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a recent Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University, her writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2016, Kenyon Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Aster(ix), and The Southern Review, Colorado Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan where she won the Thesis Prize and is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Djerassi, Yaddo, Ucross, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and Voices of Our Nation.
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Kristin Keane is the author of Luminaries (Omnidawn, 2021), An Encyclopedia of Bending Time (forthcoming from Barrelhouse) and a co-author of a forthcoming book from Guilford Press. Her writing and research have appeared in/at the New England Review, Electric Literature, The Normal School, Reading Research Quarterly and American Educator. A doctoral fellow at Stanford University, she studies literacy learning and the use of multimodal and critical literacies in classrooms.
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Justine Macauley writes speculative young adult fiction about queer teens discovering who they are in worlds almost like ours full of adventure, angst, and hope. She was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and was a founding staff member and current admissions director at Brightworks, a K-12 projects-based learning school in San Francisco.
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Ricco Villanueva Siasoco is a writer, educator, and activist. He received his MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has taught at Boston College, Columbia University, and the Massachusetts College of Art. Ricco has received fellowships from The Center for Fiction, Lambda Literary, and The National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a board member of Kundiman, a national literary organization dedicated to Asian American literature. Ricco lives in San Francisco. The Foley Artist (2019) is his first book.
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Shelley Wong is a poet and author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, forthcoming in 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. She is a 2019-2021 affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, and The New Republic and are included in They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, winter 2020). She has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from Kundiman, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, I-Park Foundation, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Fire Island National Seashore, SPACE, and RADAR/SFPL James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center.
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Former Brown Handler Writer's Residents: (2019-2020)
Earle McCartney Amanda Moore Mia Paschal Maddy Raskulinecz Shruti Swamy Former Brown Handler Writer's Residents: (2018-2019)
Chaney Kwak Kathleen McClung Susie Nadler Kevin Simmonds K-Fai Steele |
From left Shruti Swamy, Amanda Moore, Earle McCartney (not pictured Mia Paschal, Maddy Raskulinecz)
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Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library announce the creation of the Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Writer’s Residency. Made possible by the generosity of Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, the residency is designed to provide writers with free, adequate and accessible space in which to produce creative work, and to connect writers with the San Francisco Public Library in the course of producing and sharing their work in the community.
Friends and the San Francisco Public Library have multiple interests in creating this residency: to nurture the creative expression of diverse writers; to engage writers with the Library as partners in creating and sharing work with the community; and to assist writers by providing writing studio space available at no cost at the Friends’ office. Reflecting the Library’s mission as a democratic, public and accessible institution, we are committed to supporting writers from a wide spectrum of ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability and genre. Eligibility and Requirements Residencies will be offered to five writers for a period of one year, open to: |
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• Fiction writers
• Nonfiction writers • Children’s writers and illustrators • Poets • Playwrights/screenwriters |
