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The SPECULATIONS READINGS SERIES continues monthly, mostly on Wednesdays, at DreamHaven Books, 2301 38th St E, Minn eapolis. Each Speculations Reading event runs from 6:30-7:45 p.m., including a p ost-reading reception with free soda pop and cookies.
On Monday, January 27, JOHN CALVIN REZMERSKI reads his poetry from 6:30-7:30. Mr. Rezmerski was born in Pennsylvania, and again in Ohio, then again in Kansas, and three times more in Minnesota. By some accounts he has three lives left, but he is not taking any bets because he doesn’t believe in cats. He is a member of Lady Poetesses from Hell by virtue of the fact that he channels Grace Lord Stoke (via email), from whom he has learned a great deal. He has published twenty books, chapbooks, and anthologies, including The Frederick Manfred Reader, a screenplay, and three plays. He has performed his work for schools, libraries, bookstores, science fiction conventions, clubs, professional organizations, senior centers, museums, festivals, fairs, coffee houses, bars, and on television, and radio, including National Public Radio’s Wha’d Ya Know?, and collaborated with painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, dancers, theatrical troupes, and scientists. Over 35 years, he taught creative writing, journalism, linguistics, science fiction, and storytelling at Gustavus Adolphus College. His poetry books include 22 from TOTU and Breaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals.
On Monday, February 26, TERRY FAUST reads his fiction from 6:30-7:30. Mr. Faust writes a wide variety of fiction including urban fantasy, mainstream young adult novels, satirical science fiction, and humorous stage and radio plays. Dirt in Duplicate, a comic detective story, will be produced this spring by Lakes Area Radio Theatre and aired across the prairies and woodlands of this fair state. A humorous one-act play converted from his short story “Guess Who is Coming to Gotterdammerung” is a finalist in the Gadfly Final Frontier Theater Festival. Several of his stories have appeared in Tales of the Unanticipated and the two Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writer’s Network Anthologies. He is primarily an editorial and special event photographer with a background in film making.
On Wednesday, March 26, LYDA MOREHOUSE reads her fiction from 6:30-7:30.. Lyda Morehouse specializes in writing books that go out of print quickly. Books of hers you can no longer find on shelves include Archangel Protocol (Shamus Award winner), Fallen Host, Messiah Node, Apocalypse Array (Second place Philip K. Dick winner), and newly out of print Resurrection Code. Luckily, she also writes as Tate Hallaway, who has yet to be remaindered (crosses fingers). Tate has written the Garnet Lacey series (Tall, Dark & Dead, Dead Sexy, Romancing the Dead, Dead if I Do, and Honeymoon of the Dead), the Vampire Princess of St. Paul series (Almost to Die For, Almost Everything, and Almost Final Curtain.) Tate also has a stand-alone: Precinct 13. Lyda works at the Ramsey County Libraries as an traveling page, which makes her think the job should come standard with a mandolin and a feathered hat.
On Wednesday, April 9, AIMEE KUZENSKI reads her work from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Ms. Kuzenski was born in Clintonville, WI, and currently lives in northeast Minneapolis. She moved there in 1996 in an effort to use her BFA Acting Power for good, and discovered she didn’t really enjoy having no health care and looking for a new job every four weeks. After some discussion and internal musing, Aimee decided to try the University of Minnesota and electrical engineering training. The final result seems to be a blending of the two extremely different disciplines. Unwilling to stop at intellectual pursuits, Aimee also trains in eskrima, a Filipino martial art. She believes hitting things with sticks is both beautiful and therapeutic. Aimee has an apartment, a hairless cat, two house bunnies, and reams of fantastic friends.
On Wednesday, May 7, WILLIAM ALEXANDER reads his fiction. William Alexander won the National Book Award in 2012 for his first novel, Goblin Secrets, and the Earphones Award for his performance of the audiobook. He also wrote Ghoulish Song (2013), and Ambassador (forthcoming in 2014). Will studied theater and folklore in Oberlin College, English at the University of Vermont, and creative writing at the Clarion Workshop. Find him online at goblinsecrets.com [1] and on Twitter @williealex.
On Thursday, July 24, CAROLYN IVES GILMAN and TERRY A. GAREY read their fiction from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Carolyn Ives Gilman has been publishing science fiction and fantasy short stories and novelettes since 1986, in such publications as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Bending the Landscape, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Universe, Full Spectrum, and Tales of the Unanticipated. Her novels are Halfway Human (set in a world with female, male, and neuter genders), Isles of the Forsaken, and Ison of the Isles. Her novellas include Candle in a Bottle, Arkfall, and The Ice Owl. She has received Best Novella Nebula and Hugo nominations. Several of her works, including the collection Aliens of the Heart, have been published by Aqueduct Press. She is also a professional museologist and historian, specializing in North American history, particularly frontier and American Indian history. Her nonfiction books—as Carolyn Gilman—include Where Two Worlds Meet: The Great Lakes Fur Trade; The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 (with Mary Jane Schneider); and Lewis and Clark—Across the Divide. She served as exhibition curator for the Missouri Historical Society’s Lewis and Clark exhibition. She currently serves as senior exhibits developer at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
Terry A. Garey is a writer and editor who has published in many journals and anthologies including Tales of the Unanticipated. She edited two poetry anthologies, Time Gum (with Eleanor Arnason) and Time Frames, and is the author of The Joy of Home Winemaking. Terry is a member of the Lady Poetesses from Hell performance group. She lives in Minneapolis with a librarian and three cats. In Vegetology her vegetable is pumpkin and her condiments garlic and soy sauce.
On Saturday, August 2, MICHAEL MERRIAM reads his fiction from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Michael Merriam is an author of speculative fiction living in Hopkins, MN. He has published three novels, two short story collections, three novellas, and over 80 pieces of short fiction and poetry. His novel, Last Car to Annwn Station, was named a Top Book in 2011 by Readings in Lesbian & Bisexual Women’s Fiction. He has appeared on stage in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, Tellebration!, and StoryFest Minnesota, Story SlamMN! and over the air on KFAI and Minnesota Public Radio. Michael is the co-organizer of the Minnesota Speculative Fiction Writers and a member of the Artists with Disabilities Alliance, the Steampunk Artists and Writers Guild, and Story Arts Minnesota. Visit his homepage at www.michaelmerriam.net
On Wednesday, September 10, JOHN CALVIN REZMERSKI reads his poetry. Mr Rezmerski was born in Pennsylvania, and again in Ohio, then again in Kansas, and three times more in Minnesota. By some accounts he has three lives left, but he is not taking any bets because he doesn’t believe in cats. He is a member of Lady Poetesses from Hell by virtue of the fact that he channels Grace Lord Stoke (via email), from whom he has learned a great deal. He has published 20 books, chapbooks, and anthologies, including The Frederick Manfred Reader, a screenplay, and three plays. He has performed his work for schools, libraries, bookstores, science fiction conventions, clubs, professional organizations, senior centers, museums, festivals, fairs, coffee houses, bars, and on television, and on radio, including National Public Radio’s Wha’d Ya Know?, and collaborated with painters, sculptors, photographers, musicians, dancers, theatrical troupes, and scientists. Over 35 years, he taught creative writing, journalism, linguistics, science fiction, and storytelling at Gustavus Adolphus College. His poetry includes 22 from TOTU and Breaking the Rules: Starting with Ghazals.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014, CATHERINE LUNDOFF reads her fiction. Catherine Lundoff is a former archeologist and bookstore owner turned professional computer geek and award-winning author and editor. She is the author of the novels Silver Moon (Lethe Press, 2012), a novel about menopausal werewolves, and writing as Emily L. Byrne, Medusa’s Touch, a cyberpunk novel. She is also the author of the collections A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories, Crave and Night’s Kiss and some 75 published short stories. She also edited the anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories and co-edited Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic. Her work has won a Gaylactic Spectrum Award, two Goldie Awards for Lesbian Literature, a Rainbow Award, and been a finalist for the first-ever Bisexual Book Awards. Website: www.catherinelundoff.com
On Wednesday, November 19, JASON D. WITTMAN reads from his fiction from 6:45-7:45 p.m. Mr. Wittman lives and works in Minnesota. In addition to having two games published by Steve Jackson Games, he has had fiction published in SCIFI.Com, Baen's Universe, and Tales of the Unanticipated, and he now has a stand-alone novella, Saint Nicole, available at Sam's Dot Publishing. http://sdpbookstore./com/storybooks.htm#saintnicole
On Wednesday, Decembmber 3, NAOMI KRITZER reads from her fiction. Naomi Kritzer's short stories have appeared in Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and Tales of the Unanticipated. Her novels (Fires of the Faithful, Turning the Storm, Freedom's Gate, Freedom's Apprentice, and Freedom's Sisters) are available from Bantam. Since her last novel came out, she has written an urban fantasy novel about a Minneapolis woman who unexpectedly inherits the Ark of the Covenant; a children's science fictional shipwreck novel; a children's portal fantasy; and a YA novel set on a dystopic seastead. She has two e-book short story collections out: Gift of the Winter King and Other Stories, and Comrade Grandmother and Other Stories. Naomi lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband and two daughters.
Speculations is a co-production of DreamHaven Books and SF MINNESOTA.
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