Next Live Production:

February 15, 2007

7:30 p.m. @ The Puyallup Public Library

(Click here for address and directions)

Hosted by Jay Bates

And featuring the following artists: 

Rick Barot was born in the Philippines and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He attended Wesleyan University, the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, and Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry and Jones Lecturer in Poetry.  His first book, The Darker Fall, was published in 2002 by Sarabande Books.  His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Threepenny Review.  His second book, WANT, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2008.  He teaches at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, and in the Warren Wilson Program for Writers in North Carolina.

Julie H. Case, a fiction writer and one time "bus poet" from Seattle, is currently at work on her first collection of short stories. A graduate (many, many years ago) of Interlochen Arts Academy in beautiful Northern Michigan, she is now in her third and final year as a student in the Rainier Writer's Workshop, an MFA in Creative Writing program at Pacific Lutheran University. Fond of eating and snowboarding, she supports her literary proclivities by working as a magazine editor. Her favorite drink is the vodka martini.

Jerin Falkner began writing music in a notebook when she was twelve years old, growing up in Greenacres, Washington.  She later majored in English Literature at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, and afterward embarked on a career in music.  Now 23, this folk-rock singer/guitarist has used her talent and calm charisma to strike a chord with audiences all over the Northwest.  After releasing her first, self-titled demo in 2002, Jerin recorded a solo-acoustic EP (Alive) in the summer of 2004. In the fall of 2006, she released her first fully produced album, Almost Completely Happy, and will be featured in the music video for "Better" in late December.

Jill Escalera, a Capricorn with a whole set of wild Peruvians in her family, started writing short stories when she was in elementary school.  Then progressively she found that she enjoyed the written word and, as a young teen, wrote scripts with her cousins in order to record short films. In her free time she enjoys preparing new dishes with her Magic Bullet and likes to play board games with her friends, family, and pet ferret.  She is currently a senior at Emerald Ridge High School in Puyallup and intends to go to college to study education, creative writing, and anything else that might pique her interests.

Plus our standard favorite features:

Name That Book -- This audience-participation trivia contest will challenge your ability to name the titles and authors of three different books with only a short clue about the books history and reading of the book's first sentence. 

Head to Head Shakespeare Trivia Challenge -- Two contestants will be selected from the audience to answer a series of three questions about one of the Bard's 37 plays.  The contestant who successfully answers the most questions wins, but the same prize goes to the loser.  Our chosen play for this show will be MacBeth.  Access the Cliff's Notes of this play to refresh your memory.

As the Publishing World Turns -- Follow this continuing saga of writers in crisis.  Meet our hero Heathcliff Beed, his nemesis Eustace Faulkner, and the woman they both love, Ophelia Payne, and listen to them solve the mystery of the murdered Reader's Digest editor.