RHP at the Ruskin Art Club

Red Hen Press lets you rub elbows with readings at the venerable Ruskin Art Club. The Ruskin Art Club, founded in 1888, is Los Angeles’ oldest cultural association. Its 1922 clubhouse was declared a Los Angeles Historical Monument in 1997.

The Ruskin Art Club
800 S Plymouth Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

General admission $10
Students and seniors $5

Upcoming Event

March 11, 2012
2 PM
Wine and cheese reception to follow

Featured readers:

Cheryl Klein is the author of Lilac Mines (Manic D Press, 2009) and The Commuters (San Diego City Works Press, 2006), which won the Ben Reitman Award. She recently received a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to complete a novel about wayward circus performers. Her fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Other, and several anthologies. She directs theCalifornia office of Poets & Writers, Inc., by day, and writes about life, art, and carbohydrates on her blog, Bread and Bread.

Terry Wolverton is author of nine books: Embers, a novel-in-poems; Insurgent Muse: life and art at the Woman’s Building, a memoir; Stealing Angel, The Labrys Reunion and Bailey’s Beads, novels; Breath, a collection of short stories, and three collections of poetry: Black Slip, Mystery Bruise and Shadow and Praise. She has also edited fourteen literary anthologies, including the award winning six-volume series, His: Brilliant New Fiction by Gay Men and Hers: Brilliant New Fiction by Lesbians. She spent 13 years at the Woman’s Building as an artist, student, teacher and administrator, eventually serving as Executive Director. She is the founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing center inLos Angeles, where she teaches fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is also an Associate Faculty Mentor in the MFA Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry, most recently, The Islands Project: Poems for Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007). She has been awarded artist residencies at The MacDowell Colony and Dorland Mountain Colony. She directed the Women’s Studies Program at CSU Northridge and was founding chair of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles. Her imprint with Red Hen Press, Arktoi Books, specializes in publishing the work of lesbian authors. She is currently working on a new book, to be released by Red Hen in 2013.