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SUMMARY:Zahra Noorbakhsh and George Higgins at Writers With Drinks!
DESCRIPTION:Lindy West is a columnist at The Guardian, a contributor t
 o This American Life, and a freelance writer whose work focuses on fem
 inism, social justice, humor, and body image. Her work has appeared in
  the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, The Stranger,
  and others. She is the founder of I Believe You, It's Not Your Fault,
  an advice blog for teens, as well as the reproductive rights destigma
 tization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. Her first book, a memoir called 
 Shrill, is out now from Hachette Books.  Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley 
 street poet and the unofficial Poet Laureate of Berkeley. She has publ
 ished 50 books of poetry, and won the American Book Award of The Befor
 e Columbus Foundation. She has three poetry CD collections: Bubbles an
 d Bones, Eye of the Hand, and The Book Of Jerusalem.\nZahra Noorbakhsh
  is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American comedian and cohost of the awa
 rd winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. The podcast was recently inv
 ited to record at the White House and featured in Oprah Magazine. Her 
 one woman show, \"All Atheists are Muslim: a romantic comedy\" was dub
 bed a highlight of the Int'l New York City Fringe Theater Festival by 
 The New Yorker.\n George Higgins has been a public defender in Oakland
 , California for the past 26 years. His first published poem, a villa
 nelle, was selected for Best American Poetry 2003 by Yusef Komunyakaa.
  Other poems have appeared in Fugue, Lungfull, Nimrod, Pleiades, and S
 alamander. George is presently a Cave Canem Fellow.  Meg Elison is a B
 ay Area author and essayist. Her debut novel The Book of the Unnamed M
 idwife won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award and was listed as a Tiptree C
 ommittee Recommendation.\n\nFor more information visit http://trueskoo
 l.com/events/zahra-noorbakhsh-and-george-higgins-at-writers-with-drink
 s
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CATEGORIES:"san francisco", "bay area", sf, california
LOCATION:The Make Out Room, San Francisco, CA
WEBSITE:http://makeoutroom.com
URL:http://makeoutroom.com
CONTACT:415-647-2888
ORGANIZER;CN="Charlie Jane Anders":http://trueskool.com/profile/Charli
 eJaneAnders
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