With an installment each season of the year, The Salon Reading Series features readings with our beloved teachers and their students.
Come on out to our San Francisco location on November 16 to hear Writing Salon instructors, Erin Rodoni and Jennifer Lewis, read with their two students, Laura Marostica and Ada Genavia.
This free event will take place at The Writing Salon's San Francisco location. To ensure a seat at the reading, please RSVP by 5pm on Friday, November 15.
Ada Genavia is a Filipina-American writer and was raised in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Growing up, literature classes were her favorite, and she often found solace in writing letters and stories. Ada enjoys writing prose, flash fiction and creative nonfiction. Most of her work focuses on the complexities of love, loss, and grief. Ada has previously been a featured writer with Red Light Lit and published with sPARKLE + bLink. She will be making her creative nonfiction feature debut in the upcoming fall issue of Sky Island Journal. She holds a BA in English from the University of California, Riverside and an MBA from Hult International Business School in San Francisco. Ada currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her adoring husband and cat.
Erin Rodoni is the author of two poetry collections: Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss (NFSPS Press, 2017), winner of the Stevens Award sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. Her third poetry collection won the 2020 Southern Indiana Review Michael Waters Poetry Prize and was published in fall 2021. Her poems, stories, and reviews have been published in such places as Best New Poets, Poetry Northwest, World Literature Today, and Sixfold, among others. She has been the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award, a Ninth Letter Literary Award, and the 2017 Montreal International Poetry Prize. When not writing, she enjoys travel and spending time outdoors with her daughters.
Jennifer Lewis is a writer, editor, and the publisher of Red Light Lit. Her debut short story collection, The New Low, is published by Black Lawrence Press. Jennifer won the Nomadic Press Bindle Award for her short story, “New Low,” and the Los Angeles Review Flash Fiction award for “Put a Teat in It.” She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University in May 2015. She teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
Laura Marostica‘s writing has appeared in Up the Staircase Quarterly, Sweet Tree Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, FEED, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. She works at UC Berkeley and lives in the East Bay with her family.