The Salon Series
Carla Harryman
A reading of new work co-sponsored by Small Press Traffic

Wednesday, January 30, 7 PM
$5-7 sliding scale admission

"This is written nowhere.
I dreamed I was in a city and also in my dream I couldn't remember if cities existed anymore."

Known for her genre experiments and gender irreverence, Carla Harryman, a native Californian who has spent much of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area, now lives in Detroit where she teaches Women Studies, Creative Writing and Literature at Wayne State University. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards and has recently received grants from the Women's Studies Archives of Duke University to research Kathy Acker's notebooks (Summer 2001) and the Detroit Arts Council for the production of her new play to be staged at Zeitgeist Theater in Detroit (April-May 2002). In 1995 and 2000, she collaborated with San Francisco composer Erling Wold, director Jim Cave, and visual artist Amy Trachtenberg on the chamber opera A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil.
Carla Harryman will be reading from her new book Gardener of Stars, “an experimental novel that explores the paradise and wastelands of utopian desire.” Other works by Harryman include two volumes of selected writing, There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn and Animal Instincts: Prose, Essays, and Plays; a hybrid novel, The Words After Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre; and a book-length dramatic work, Memory Play. Her most recent play, Stationed in the Sub World, premiered last year at Oxford Brookes University and will be staged in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York in 2002-2003. The Village Voice called her work “intelligent, sardonic, and elliptical to the point of delirium.”