Prose Café: Kat Falls, Joe Ponepinto, Kelly Watt, Diana Spechler

San Miguel Prose Café Via Zoom

Kat Falls, Joe Ponepinto, Kelly Watt, Diana Spechler

Thursday, November 5, 2020
5:00 – 6:00 PM Central Time

Prose Café’s November 5 event, live via Zoom, will feature four outstanding writers and a smorgasbord of genres—speculative fiction, political satire, Covid-19 erotica, and more. After the authors read their work, we’ll end our hour with a short Q&A session.

A seven-time Moth StorySLAM champion, Diana Spechler is the author of the novels Who by Fire and Skinny and of the New York Times Opinion series “Going Off.” She has written for a variety of publications, including GQ, Harper’s, Esquire, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, Ploughshares, National Geographic Traveler, Paris Review Daily, Tin House Open Bar, Playboy, Travel + Leisure, and BBC Travel. Her accolades include a Yaddo residency and the Orlando Creative Nonfiction Prize from A Room of Her Own Foundation, and she teaches writing for Stanford University’s Online Writers’ Studio.

Kat Falls writes science fiction thrillers for young people. In her Dark Life series (Scholastic Press), Kat takes middle-school readers on action-packed adventures under the sea. The series was featured on The Today Show, translated into 18 languages, and optioned for film by Disney. Her YA series, Inhuman (Scholastic Press), a dystopian romance, received a starred review from Kirkus and made the Tome It List for “clean” teen reads.  Kat teaches at Northwestern University and has presented at writing conferences and workshops across the U.S. and in Mexico. She also gives author talks at schools and enjoys skyping with tween and teen book clubs. Find out more at katfalls.net.

Joe Ponepinto is a senior editor at Orca, A Literary Journal (https://orcalit.com). He’s the author of the novels Mr. Neutron and Curtain Calls, as well as dozens of published short stories. A New Yorker by birth, he has lived in many locations around the United States, and now writes, edits, and teaches in western Washington State.

Kelly Watt is a Canadian writer whose award-winning short fiction has been published internationally. Her work has been longlisted twice for the prestigious CBC Short Story Contest, as well as CBC’s Non-Fiction Contest (2017). She is the author of the gothic novel, Mad Dog, released in the U.S. with Hamilton Stone Editions last fall (2019), as well as the mini-travel companion, Camino Meditations. Watt is presently at work on a memoir about her mother’s death in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as well as a YA series set in India. You can check her out at www.kellywatt.ca, or follow her on Instagram @kellywattauthor.