This month ! Back Room Live Presents ! Writing Artists ! Blake
Ellington Larson ! Vicki Hudson ! Jenny Drai ! and Janet W. Hardy !
Saturday Night July 28th ! Mc Nallys Irish Pub ! 7pm ! 5352 College
Ave ! Oakland

Janet W. Hardy has lost count of her careers, but the last one was as
a sex writer/educator ("The Ethical Slut," "The Compleat Spanker,"
"Radical Ecstasy"), and her next one, she hopes, will be as a wealthy
and beloved author and college professor. Toward that end, she is
halfway through her MFA program in Creative Nonfiction at St. Mary's.

Jenny Drai grew up near Chicago but spent several years in Munich
before settling on Oakland. Her poetry has appeared in Five Fingers
Review, 580 Split, The Tiny, and Spinning Jenny. She has just
finished her first novel. Her novel is roughly 290 pp, has line
breaks, but almost no commas.

When not writing, Vicki Hudson spends her time as an urban farmer and
Magic: the Gathering collectible card player, both alternate potential
career paths if this writing thing doesn't work out. She lives in the
East Bay with partner, dog and 4 cats.

Blake Ellington Larson began writing poetry at the age of eleven. For
five years out of high school he and a close friend created
Picaresque, an art zine. His first and only published poem "She Slows
It Down In Me" was printed in Wordworks. He just finished his first
chapbook Live-In Dreams. He lives and thrives in Oakland Ca.