Saturday, March 19th, 2005
at La Tazza

located at 108 Chestnut Street (between 1st and 2nd Streets)

Featuring
AMAR RAVVA (video artist & prose writer; Los Angeles)
JANET NEIGH (poet; Philadelphia)
AMINA CAIN (fiction author; Chicago)

AMAR RAVVA is a writer who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is currently working on his first book, American Canyon, which explores the relationships between history, sickness and ritual. In his spare time, he makes music, works on his video projects, and is an advisor for the literary journal, nocturnes re(view) of the literary arts.

JANET NEIGH has spent most of her life living in different parts of Canada. Vancouver is her favorite synonym for home. She currently lives in Philadelphia where she is working on a PhD at Temple University. She has an MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Calgary. Her work has appeared recently in How2, Westcoast Line and Open Letter.

AMINA CAIN lives in Chicago where she writes stories and has begun to study and practice Buddhism. Her work has appeared in 3rd Bed, Spinning Jenny, the Journal of Experimental Fiction, Bridge, Berkeley Fiction Review, and the2ndhand. She teaches at Columbia College.