Join SF in SF Sunday, October 12, with authors
KATE MARUYAMA JORDAN ROSENBERG SUMIKO SAULSON
Event begins at 3PM at the SFPL Main Branch, 3rd fl., James C. Hormel LGBTQIA+ Room
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Each author will read a selection from their work, followed by Q&A with the audience, moderated by author Cliff Winnig
Booksigning and schmoozing follows at close of event!! Books will be for sale courtesy of Fly By Night Books, and attendees are welcome to bring their own books from home for signatures.
This event will be recorded for a later podcast, courtesy of Soma FM. Catch up on previous SF in SF conversations and reading at our dedicated channel
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
KATE MARUYAMA is the author of Alterations, The Collective, Bleak Houses, and Harrowgate and her novella Family Solstice was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Magazine. Her short work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies and she is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and winner of the Uncharted Short Story Prize. She served on the working Board for Women Who Submit, and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards. She writes, teaches, cooks, and eats in Los Angeles. Learn more about this versatile author at https://www.katemaruyama.com/
JORDAN ROSENFELD has been a teacher and coach for over 20 years, working with writers to improve their skills in fiction and memoir writing. She has also taught writing at many writing conferences, such as the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, the California Writers’ Club, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and other. With six books on the craft of writing, including the forthcoming The Sound of Story: Developing Voice and Tone in Writing, Rosenfeld is also the author of three novels, most recently Fallout, Women in Red and Forged in Grace, and her work can be found in national publications such as The Atlantic, Mental Floss, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, The Rumpus, Scientific American, and many others. Learn more about her writing workshops and coaching at https://jordanrosenfeld.net/
SUMIKO SAULSON is a cartoonist, poet, science-fiction, fantasy and horror writer, and the editor of Black Magic Women, Scry of Lust and 100 Black Women in Horror Fiction. Their works include Solitude, Warmth, The Moon Cried Blood, Happiness and Other Diseases, Somnalia, Insatiable, Ashes and Coffee, and Things That Go Bump In My Head. They wrote and illustrated the comics Mauskaveli, Dooky, and graphic novels Dreamworlds and Agrippa. They write for the SEARCH Magazine and the San Francisco Bayview column Writing While Black. They are an award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror, whose latest novel Happiness and Other Diseases, is available on Mocha Memoirs Press. Learn more at https://sumikosaulson.com/
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The San Francisco Public Library Main Branch is located at the corner of Larkin and Grove, in the Civic Center area, across from City Hall. Entrances are on Larkin and Grove, or Grove at the Market and Hyde street intersections. Public transportation by BART is an easy way to get here – exit at the Civic Center Station and walk across the plaza to the Library. Check 511.org for the easiest MUNI and bus routes to get here. Street parking is free on Sundays, and the Civic Center garage is open til 1oPM.
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SAVE THE DATES – COMING UP NEXT WITH SF IN SF!
Sunday, October 5th – 12 noon to 3PM – Join the party! Tachyon Publications is celebrating 30 years of publishing excellence, saving the world, one good book at a time! This event will take place at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch, and will be followed by a very special SF in
SF gig at 3PM with SAMANTHA MILLS and JOE R. LANSDALE!! **This event will be free and open to the public**
Sunday, October 12th – KATE MARUYAMA, JORDAN ROSENFELD and SUMIKO SAULSON will be appearing at the SFPL Main Branch, and this event is free and open to the public!
Sunday, November 16th – 3PM -RICHARD WOLINSKY and JACOB WEISMAN will be appearing at the SFPL Main Branch on Sunday, for the launch of SPACE SHIPS! RAYGUNS! MARTIAN OCTOPODES! This event is free and open to the public!
Sunday, November 23rd – SPECIAL EVENT! We’re putting together a program on Philip K. Dick, with some of the foremost experts on this very complicated author! Endlessly entertaining to talk about, we’ll delve into what makes him so fascinating and relevant today.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL RINA AT sfinsfevents@gmail.com
We are beginning to book authors in for 2026! If you have a book or ebook coming out, please let us know!
