Saratoga Pride in Reading - LGBTQ+ Author Talks in June
/Saratoga Pride is very excited to present three nights of literary LGBTQ+ delights. This series of Pride Month virtual events is curated by the Saratoga Book Festival.
June 15, Poet Nicole Santalucia in conversation with Saratoga Springs resident and Author Kim van Alkemade
June 22, Fiction Panel featuring Bold Strokes Book Authors: Ashley Bartlett, ‘Nathan Burgoine, Radclyffe and Anne Shade; moderated by Editor, Sandy Lowe
June 29, Short Story Authors Joe Okonkwo and Michael Lowenthal in conversation
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Nicole Santalucia, Prize-winning poet and Shippensburg University instructor, is well known for her work Because I Did Not Die, Spoiled Meat and appearances in publications like The Best American Poetry and TINGE Magazine. Book of Dirt chronicles concepts of outrage, love, and fear experienced by the lesbian community in South Central Pennsylvania in which Nicole Santalucia confronts misogyny, homophobia, and addiction through poetry.
Kim van Alkemade’s creative nonfiction essays have appeared in literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, CutBank, and So To Speak. Born in New York City, she earned an MA and PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a Professor at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania where she teaches writing.
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Radclyffe is the multi-award winning author of over 60 lesbian romance novels and as many short stories. Her latest romance, Unrivaled, is another of her popular medical romances featuring sexy, passionate women discovering love in the fast-paced world of the ER and first responders. She is also the founder and president of Bold Strokes Books Inc, one of the world's largest independent queer publishers.
Award-winning author Ashley Bartlett was born and raised in California. She is the author of the Dirty Trilogy and the Cash Braddock series. She is an obnoxious, sarcastic, punk-ass, but her friends don’t hold that against her.
Anne Shade loves writing stories about women who love women featuring strong, beautiful Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Anne is the author of two novels under Bold Strokes Books, Femme Tales released in March 2020 and Masquerade released in February 2021, a short story for the anthology LesFic Eclectic: Volume Two in December 2020, and a collaboration with Editor Victoria Villasenor for Bold Strokes Books upcoming anthology, In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous and People of Color.
'Nathan Burgoine is a tall queer writer of mostly shorter queer fictions, who usually tells tales of romance, speculative fiction, or somewhere between the two. He does occasionally write novels, including his debut novel, Light, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, and his YA novel, Exit Plans for Teenage Freaks, which was a finalist for the Prix Aurora Award. His most recent releases are romance novellas taking place in a fictionalized version of the Ottawa gay Village, including "Handmade Holidays," "Faux Ho Ho," "Village Fool" and "A Little Village Blend."
Sandy Lowe has a master’s degree in publishing from the University of Sydney, Australia, and is the senior editor at Bold Strokes Books. She’s the author of Party of Three and If You Dare and is hard at work on her next draft.
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Joe Okonkwo is the author of Jazz Moon, winner of the Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award. Okonkwo served as prose editor for Newtown Literary and he edited Best Gay Stories 2017. His short story collection, Kiss the Scars on the Back of my Neck, will be published by Amble Press in 2021.
Michael Lowenthal is the author of the short story collection, Sex with Strangers. He his also author of four novels: The Same Embrace (Dutton, 1998); Avoidance (Graywolf Press, 2002); Charity Girl (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), which was a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice” and a Washington Post “Top Fiction of 2007″ pick; and The Paternity Test (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012), an Indie Next selection and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, the Southern Review, Guernica, True Story, and the Kenyon Review, and have been widely anthologized, in such volumes as Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge, Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader, and Best New American Voices 2005. He has also written for the New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Out, and many other publications. His first story collection, Sex With Strangers, was published in March 2021.
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