Authors & Art in the Park

• Sunday, July 19
• 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
• The San Diego Art Institute's Museum of the Living Artist
  on the Prado, Balboa Park

Enjoy a beautiful morning in the park as the event kicks off with a champagne reception featuring mimosas, fresh fruit, and Starbucks coffee & pastries. Before our readers take the stage, enjoy the museum’s exhibition work by Glen Maxion and Suzanne LaJoie. Visit The San Diego Art Institute online.

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This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from
The James Irvine Foundation.

Kimberly Dark's writing and performances have delighted and incited audiences at theaters and universities across North America and Europe for more than a decade. Her work blends humor, poetry, story-telling, and audience interaction to remind all of us that we are creating the world - even as it creates us! Kimberly's new CD, "Location is Everything," contains tracks from her much-requested performance, "Stripped and Teased," and other recordings of spoken word, poetry and stories. Kimberly's first CD is "You Are My Singing Lesson." Both CDs will be available at the event. You can also find a calendar of her upcoming appearances, and additional information, pictures, videos and more at her website: kimberlydark.com

Fergal O'Doherty born with shamelessly bad timing, in the midst of his sister’s seventh birthday party in Derry City, Northern Ireland. Young girls reportedly ran from his house in their party dresses screaming, “Mrs. O’Doherty’s having a baby on the living room sofa next to Moira’s birthday cake before I could even get a slice.”
Educated and rigorously disciplined at the following institutions: Saint Eugene’s Convent School, Francis Street Derry, more commonly known as “The Wee Nuns” school, not because the nuns who taught were midgets, but because is was the smaller of the two adjoining schools taught by the same teaching order. (Sisters of Nazareth - disciplined with laser beam eyes and spontaneous smacks on the back of the head). Christian Brothers School, Bogside, Derry (Congregatio Fratrum Christianorum “The Congregation of Christian Brothers” –these guys made no bones about harsh corporal discipline). St. Columb’s College, Derry (Diocesan Priests – used only verbal humiliation).
Emigrated to United States in 1982/ B.A. English State University of New York, Stony Brook. Didn’t know what to do so he / Did a Ph.D. in English at the City University of New York. / Didn’t really know what to do next so he taught literature at Hunter College, New York City for ten years. Didn’t really know what to do next, so he/ Took a position as Professor of English at Palomar College, San Marcos in 1997 and now lives with his black labrador, Rory, in North Park, San Diego.

Rob Williams is the co-editor of the Lambda Literary nominated anthology, From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write About Growing Up (2006, Carroll & Graf). His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and journals including San Diego Citybeat, Maisonneuve Magazine, Pindeldyboz, 400 Words, Versal, as well as the anthologies including I Do/I Don't, Fool For Love: New Gay Fiction, and I Remember When Mom: Memories and Stories About Mothers. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2004 and is the recipient of fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center Residency for writing for January 2010. He currently teaches Creative Writing and Composition at Grossmont College.

Steve Montgomery, emcee. Together with Judy Reeves, Steve Montgomery helped launch the annual Authors & Art celebration in 2006. Steve has served as emcee of the event since its inception, and is thrilled to be invited back for A&A 2009! Steve is on San Diego Writers, Ink’s Advisory Board, and is the author of the memoir, Boy of Steel.

Authors & Art in the Park is the result of San Diego Writers, Ink’s proud collaboration with The San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) and San Diego LGBT Pride.

Thanks to our sponsor, Starbucks, for their delicious generosity.