KGB Bar Reading!

Andrew Zornoza & Risa Miller
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th StreetNew York City, NY
February 21, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Risa Miller: a graduate of Goucher College, with an MFA from Emerson College. She is the recipient of the PEN New England Discovery Award. She’s taught fiction writing at the University of Massachusetts and currently on the writing faculty at Emerson College and on the graduate writing faculty at Bar Ilan University. She is the author of the highy aclaimed Welcome to Heavenly Heights. She reads from her latest novel My Before and After Life.

Andrew Zornoza is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His short fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as, Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, CapGun, and Matter Magazine, among others. Born in Houston, Texas, he has taught at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and in Parsons Design & Technology MFA program. He is a contributing editor to the arts journal Helping Orphans Worldwide (H.O.W.). He currently lives in New York City.

Blake Butler and Bookslut

Among January's featured articles, Blake Butler talks to author Andrew Zornoza about how he writes, Chris Farley, and post 9/11 America.

Interview with Molly Gaudry

Interview with author Andrew Zornoza @ Keyhole Magazine, conducted by Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apart.

‘First Book’ Authors: Panel Discussion at the Wilton Library

Tuesday January 19, 7-8:30 pm
Three new authors with recently published first books talk and read from their works and discuss their writing process and publication experiences. The three authors are: Emily Arsenault, whose book The Broken Teaglass was accepted for publication while she was working at the Wilton Library; Andrew Zornoza, with Where I Stay and Joshua Gaylord, Hummingbirds. Talk moderated by local documentary filmmaker and writer Megan Smith-Harris. No charge. Registration recommended.

137 Old Ridgefield Road
Wilton, CT 06897-3000
(203) 762-3950

No Tells, tells

"Where I Stay" is selected as one of the best poetry books of 2009 by No Tells writer Julie Babcock.

"Zornoza drives a transcendently blurry line between poetry, prose, and art. This book is going to haunt me for a long time."

It is also a pick for No Tells holiday shopping guide. See here to find author Kim Gek Lin Short's other suggestions.

Poet Steven Karl also picks "Where I Stay" as one of his top three books of 2009. Read more of his picks over at HTML Giant.

Shapiro and Zornoza: November 16, 2009, New York, NY

Fiction Forum

with Susan Shapiro and Andrew Zornoza
6:30 p.m. @ the Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall
66 West 12th Street, Room 510
Admission: $5; free to all students and New School faculty, staff, and alumni with ID
Moderated by Luis Jaramillo, associate chair, The New School Writing Program.

Shapiro's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, and The Village Voice. She is the author of the memoirs Only as Good as Your Word and Lighting Up as well as Five Men Who Broke My Heart, which was optioned for a feature film. Speed Shrinking is her first novel.

Zornoza is a writer and visual artist from Houston. He is the author of the novel Where I Stay. His fiction and essays have appeared in magazines such as Gastronomica, Sleepingfish, Confrontation, and CapGun. He has taught at The New School University, Gotham Writers' Workshop and the ASA Institute. He lives in New York City.

Upcoming NYC Reading

September 25 // 7:30 PM\

Admission: $5 + FREE DRINK!
The Earshot Reading Series
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Rose Live Music 345 Grand Street (b/w Havemeyer & Marcy)Brooklyn, NY 11211(718) 599-0069

Sarah Sarai, Andrew Zornoza, Paul Hlava, Nicole Feldman, Justin Boening