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AN EVENING WITH BAY AREA WOMEN AUTHORS

Members of the Women's National Book Association, San Francisco Chapter, will read from their recent works on Thursday, June 7, at 7 PM. The authors, representing various literary genres, will include:

DIANA CHAMBERS,
author of the acclaimed spy novels, Stinger and The Company She Keeps.

ELAINE DALLMAN,
whose poetry will appear in the forthcoming Nevada: Literature of the Silver State.

JOAN GELFAND,
winner of the Chaffin Fiction Award. Gelfand, whose poems have been published in The New York Times Magazine and Vanity Fair, will read from Seeking Center.

DIANE LEBOW,
president of the Bay Area Travel Writers and winner of the Travelers' Tales Solas Gold Award for Best Story of a Romance on the Road called Greece: A Love Story.

JENNIFER SWEENEY,
winner of the Street Rag Poetry Book Award, on Salt Memory.

DANNA WILBERG,
reading from The Red Chair, a novel about a psychotherapist facing her own fears.

The Women's National Book Association was started in 1917 in New York by a group of women booksellers who were excluded from the annual booksellers' convention. The San Francisco chapter includes authors, writers, readers, publishers, librarians, booksellers, educators, publicists, editors, production/graphics specialists, agents and reviewers. In addition to holding regular readings, the chapter hosts the Effie Lee Morris Childrens' Literature Lecture at the San Francisco Public Library, donates books to the Teddy Bear Room at the District Attorney's office and supports the Omega Girls and Boys Club of San Francisco. For more information, visit their website at wnba-sfchapter.org.