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The best of California art, literature, food, and wine all come together at our 4th annual Pairings event.
Meet Sonoma winemakers, chefs, and our “Flight of Fiction” writers: Nancy Au, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Peter Thomas, Jenny Qi. Sommelier Christopher Sawyer co-hosts with writer and curator Hollie Hardy.
Christopher Sawyer is an internationally renowned sommelier, wine journalist, wine judge, consultant, and public speaker. Hardy hosts the popular monthly reading series, Saturday Night Special, an East Bay Open Mic, and she is a co-founder of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland.
Tickets include wine flight & snacks
$25 SVMA members, $35 general public
Doors open at 5pm. Event begins at 5:30pm.
Featured Chefs
- Joanne and Keith Filipello, Wild Thyme
- Armando Navarro, El Dorado Kitchen
- Sean Weyhmiller, Oak and Olive Kitchen
Author Bios
Nancy Au’s essays and stories appear in many journals including Craft Literary, Redivider, Gulf Coast, Catapult, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus, and in the fall began teaching at San Francisco State University. She is co-founder of The Escapery, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology, and in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize. Her flash also won Redivider’s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her debut full-length collection is Spider Love Song & Other Stories, (Acre Books, 2019).
Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s prose can be found in Gravel, Sand, Grimoire, Joyland, Jellyfish Review, Atticus Review and Pank. His short story “Taylor Swift” won the 2015 Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast. A collection of prose poems and microfiction, Animal Children, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2019. He is chief steward of the adjunct faculty union at California College of the Arts, SEIU 1021.
Peter Thomas Bullen, a haircutter and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley, began writing at the urging of his wife when he was 49. His first book of short stories Wallflower was released from Nomadic Press in 2016. He has been a regular featured reader at San Francisco’s LitQuake festival, Saturday Night Special, and Quiet Lightning, and his work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, the LA Review of Books, sPARKLE & bLINK, Red Wheelbarrow, (b)OINK, Red Light Lit, and other journals. He is currently working a new collection of short stories, prose poems, and weird dialogues between strange people.
Jenny Qi is a writer and scientist. A child of survivors of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, she grew up mostly in Las Vegas and moved to San Francisco to complete her PhD in Cancer Biology. She writes across genres, and her writing contains themes of grief as a young adult, the inheritance of trauma, and the intersection of science and art. Her essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Tin House, Rattle, ZYZZYVA, Bellevue Literary Review, Figure 1, and elsewhere. She was part of the inaugural Rooted & Written program by the Writers Grotto. She is completing her first poetry collection, titled I will be somewhere else yesterday; an early version was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize.