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 | 12.09.06 | Jaime Cortez and Philip HuangOn December 9th, GuyWriters hosted a Holiday Social featuring local published authors Jaime Cortez and Philp Huang. About twenty five members and friends gathered in host Jay Frazier's beautiful loft in SOMA to eat, drink and be merry -- and listen to Jaime and Philip read their work. Jaime's writing is well-known in the queer literary community for its incisive and often hilarious social observations, and Philip, a self-proclaimed "tragedy whore," enchanted the crowd with his lyrical and elegiac tales of women in trouble. Afterwards, the authors dialogued with the audience about do-it-yourself publishing, favorite authors, and race and literature. Many thanks to all who attended this wonderful event!Jaime Cortez is a Bay Area artist, writer and cultural worker. His writing has been included in over a dozen anthologies and journals, and his visual art has been exhibited throughout Northern California at the Oakland Museum of California, Berkeley Museum of Art, Galeria de la Raza and Intersection for the Arts. Jaime is currently working on a short story collection slated for publication in 2008 by Suspect Thoughts Press. Philip Huang was born in Taiwan in 1975 and now lives in Berkeley, California. His writings have appeared in numerous anthologies including Queer PAPI Porn, Charlie Chan is Dead II, Best Gay Asian Erotica, Take Out: Queer Writing From Asian Pacific America, Fresh Men: New Voices in Gay Fiction, Inside Him: New Gay Erotica, as well as POZ Magazine, The East Bay Express, and the queer online journals of Lodestar Quarterly, Velvet Mafia, and Suspect Thoughts. He recently completed The Widow Season, a collection of his short stories. In addition, he holds a black-belt in Aikido and teaches martial arts in the Berkeley area. |
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