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2020 - 2021 Annual Report
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Welcome 2022 Brown Handler Writer's Residents
These five writers will spend a year at Friends’ studio to pursue their projects and share their talents with the community. ​
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Stop by, say hello and buy books to support our San Francisco Public Library! ​All current Friends' members receive 10% off all book purchases.
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Thank you so much to our 2020-2021 Brown Handler Writers Residents 
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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.

Former Brown Handler Writers Residents 
(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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From left Shruti Swamy, Amanda Moore, Earle McCartney

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Brown   Handler  Writer's   Residency  ​

At Friends of the San Francisco Public Library 
Friends is excited to announce another year of the Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Writer’s Residency. Five writers will be chosen to 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, 
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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Application Deadline: December 11, 2021 

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Start of Residency: January 2022 
End of Residency: December 2022 
​​If you have additional questions, please contact: Marie Ciepiela at residency@friendssfpl.org
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Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
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Find Diana Kapp's book, Girls Who Run the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business, on her website www.dianakapp.com and at the Library! Follow her on Instagram @girlswhoruntheworldbook Girls Rule the World: 31 CEOs Who Mean Business.

​Find Emily Pilloton's book Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See here and at the Library. For more information about Girls Garage, and to sign up for their newsletter, go to www.girlsgarage.org. Follow them on Instagram @_GirlsGarage

Moderator Walter Thompson is a Senior Editor at https://techcrunch.com/ 
He can be found on Twitter @YourProtagonist and his Podcast, The Golden City, can be found at anchor.fm/thegoldencity

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