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At the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
This Residency, funded by Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler's generosity, is designed to nurture emerging and established San Francisco based 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 vital connection between the public Library and the literary world. 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. - Daniel Handler
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Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
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Ekene Okobi E. Okobi is an interdisciplinary artist whose social practice art has been staged at the British and Brooklyn Museums, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and Berlin’s Gropius Bau. Her plays have been included in London’s Theatre 503 Rapid, Write, Response Short Play Initiative, and Excellence Theatre’s Dear Black People festival at London’s Pleasance Theatre. She has developed outreach programming for New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), and the New York Public Library. She spent countless childhood hours at the old Glen Park Library branch. She is currently revising previously written plays and seeking ways to provide SF playwrights opportunities to gain public feedback on their own works in progress.
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Ploi Pirapokin Ploi Pirapokin's work is featured in Tor.com, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, Gulf Stream Magazine, The Art and Craft of Stories from Asia: A Writer's Guide and Anthology from Bloomsbury Academic, and more. She has received grants and fellowships from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Creative Capacity Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi, Kundiman and others. A graduate of the Clarion Writers Workshop and the MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University, she is currently working on a short story collection set in an alternate Southeast Asia and novel about cyborgs downloading memories of their dead.
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Sara Marinelli Sara Marinelli grew up in Naples, Italy, and lives in San Francisco. Her writing in English is published in New American Writing, Blue Mesa Review, Pummarol; her work in Italian appears in Nazione Indiana, Leggendaria, Alias, il Manifesto. Sara also experiments with audio storytelling and is the author of the audio-documentary “Letters to Italy.” A lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco, and a Teaching Artist at the San Francisco Opera, Sara is currently working on a novel.
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Sarah Matsui Sarah Matsui is an interdisciplinary writer. Her first book, Learning From Counternarratives in Teach For America, was featured in NPR’s Code Switch and Jacobin Magazine. She won the 2021 Sewanee Review Nonfiction Contest, the 2022 Fractured Lit Contest, and the 2023 Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Award. Her poems have appeared in the SF Asian Art Museum, The Seventh Wave, and Pleiades. She is currently working on her debut essay collection.
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Marina Hope Wilson Marina Hope Wilson is the author of the chapbook, Nighttime (Cooper Dillon Books, 2024). Her work examines mortality and the body, identity, nature, and place. Marina’s poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, $, Bodega, Stirring, and SWWIM Every Day. She won the 2023 Rash Award for her poem, “Origin.” Her poem, “Dilemma,” was recently nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and the Best New Poets Anthology. Her experiences of death and dying inspired the creation of Nighttime and ongoing study of conscious end of life doula/midwifery care. Marina’s current focus is a full-length manuscript of poems. Marina lives in San Francisco with her husband, stepdaughter, and two cats, and she makes her living as a speech-language therapist.
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From left Shruti Swamy, Amanda Moore, Earle McCartney
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(2023-2024)
Brendan McHugh Flávia Stefani René Peña-Govea Sam Santos Julian Yeva Johnson From left: Yeva Johnson, Brendan McHugh, Flávia Stefani, René Peña-Govea, and Sam Santos Julian (2022-2023)
tanea lunsford lynx Jenny Qi Lindsey Smith Douglas Henderson Preeti Vangani From left: tanea lunsford lynx, Jenny Qi, Lindsey Smith, Douglas Henderson, and Preeti Vangani (2020-2021)
Yalitza Ferreras Kristin Keane Justine Mccauley Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Shelley Wong (2019-2020)
Earle McCartney Amanda Moore Mia Paschal Maddy Raskulinecz Shruti Swamy (2018 - 2019)
Chaney Kwak Kathleen McClung Susie Nadler Kevin Simmonds K-Fai Steele |
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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 |
