The Evening's Program:

- Marie-Helene Bertino, reading from debut collection of short stories, SAFE AS HOUSES, winner of The 2012 Iowa Short Fiction Award

- Karolina Waclawiak, reading from debut novel, How to Get into the Twin Palms (2012)

- Vica Miller, reading from The Shadow of a Blue Doll, a novel

- Catherine Chung, reading from debut novel, Forgotten Country (2012),  an Honorable Mention for the 2013 PEN/Hemingway Award

 

On view: paintings by the students of Elena Komissarova's Art Studio for Children. The Salon raised $850 for The Speyer Legacy School. Photos are here.