Where I’ll be at AWP 2016
- At March 28, 2016
- By Jeannine Gailey
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Here’s where you can find me at this year’s AWP LA 2016!
I’m flying in on Thursday, hopefully in time to register before registration closes at 5.
On Friday:
I’ll be doing a panel at 1:30: AWP Panel F222: Women in Spec: Women Writers in Speculative Poetry and Fiction. 1:30-2:45. (Jeannine Hall Gailey, Lesley Wheeler, Sally Kindred, Nancy Hightower, Margaret Rhee), Room 505 LA Convention Center, Meeting Room level. Should be fun!
On Saturday:
I’ll be doing a signing from 2 PM to 3 PM at the Two Sylvias Booth (#835) in the Bookfair. Come by to chat, say hi, get a book, whatever! We’d love to see you (and Martha Silano will be there earlier that afternoon if you want to catch her!) Plus, Two Sylvias Press always has a great booth and great swag!
Where you can find my books:
This year, only two of my four publishers will be at AWP, so you can find Becoming the Villainess at the Steel Toe Books Booth (2141) and She Returns to the Floating World at Two Sylvias Press table (#835) – but even though Mayapple Press won’t be there this year, you can find The Robot Scientist’s Daughter at the SPD booth and I’m going to bring some copies with me. I’ll also be bringing copies of Unexplained Fevers from New Binary Press. And I’m looking forward to meeting the folks at Moon City Press who are publishing Field Guide to the End of the World in November!
I’ll try to get to some offsite readings and parties as well as wandering around the bookfair, so if you see me, say hi! And if you want to get together for coffee, let me know. I’m hoping my energy holds up all the way through Saturday night 🙂
I’m so excited just to be able to go. Today I’m trying to schedule the hospital test for my liver for right after I get back, but I’m so happy to have this reprieve to just go and be a writer for a little bit. Of course, I’m dealing with another little ankle sprain (!) and woke up yesterday with a terrible sore throat (elderberry, licorice, and liquid benadryl are what I’m using to make it go away…) so I’ll be mildly impaired but not totally out! At least the chipped tooth and computer crisis (three viruses – a trojan, a worm AND an exploit – on my MacBook Pro! Grrr!) have both been resolved – thank you virus software and emergency dental appointment. Now I just have to make sure my brain is working in literary mode!
Here’s what I look like right now, even though I’m not always standing under a cherry tree. These are pictures from Easter, which was blustery (a funnel cloud appeared – and a rainbow! Nutty weather!) and it was about 45 degrees, so I am definitely looking forward to dryness and sunshine in California!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
