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SUMMARY:California Writers Week at The Avid Reader
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate California Writers Week with us and the California Writers Club Sacramento Branch on October 17th at 6:00 PM. \nAuthors Featured:\nJudith Starkston author of Priestess of Ishana\nPete Cruz author of No Tears for Dad: My Path to Forgiveness\nCarol Menaker author of The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done: One Juror’s Reckoning with Racial Injustice\nLally Pia author of The Fortune Teller’s Prophecy \nAbout Judith Starkston\nJudith Starkston has spent too much time reading about and exploring the remains of the ancient worlds of the Greeks and Hittites. Early on she went so far as to get two degrees in Classics from the University of California\, Santa Cruz and Cornell. She loves myths and telling stories. Hand of Fire was a semi-finalist for the M.M. Bennett’s Award for Historical Fiction. Priestess of Ishana won the San Diego State University Conference Choice Award. \nAbout Pete Cruz\nPete Cruz was raised in Milpitas\, California\, a town adjacent to San Jose. He hold’s a bachelor’s in English from California State University\, Sacramento. He has won awards for short stories\, served on writers panels\, editing teams\, and presented talks and workshops on a variety of subjects during his professional career in adult education and as a trainer and consultant for the State of California. \nAbout Carol Menaker\nCarol Menaker is a writer living in the Sierra Foothills in Northern California\, where she retired after a forty-plus-year career writing and managing communications for universities and nonprofits. She was raised in a Jewish family in Harrisburg\, Pennsylvania. She holds a BA in theatre arts/acting from Pennsylvania State University and an MS in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, and she enjoys travel\, yoga\, walking\, and bicycling. The Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done is her first full-length work. \nAbout Lally Pia\nLally Pia was born in Sri Lanka\, grew up in Ghana\, and made it halfway through medical school before political turmoil closed down her university and she learned that her American Green Card had been bungled. She went on to work as a church organist\, teacher\, and ice cream decorator\, as well as a scientist in a molecular biology lab. Her next stint was as the director of UC Davis’s Body Donation Program\, where she embalmed cadavers and maintained a freezer full of human specimens (a thankless job that she was glad to leave after three years). Lally is a mother\, grandmother\, and child psychiatrist who lives in Davis\, California\, with her husband\, Tim. \n 
URL:https://artsalliancedavis.org/event/california-writers-week-at-the-avid-reader/
LOCATION:The Avid Reader\, 617 2nd St.
CATEGORIES:Books & Talks
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