San Francisco Author, Oral Historian and Professor Peter Orner to Read at City College of San Francisco

CCSF’s English Department and Creative Writing Program are proud to host a reading with novelist, oral historian, and professor of creative writing Peter Orner. This reading comes on the heels of the publication of a new book of essays on life and writing called Am I Alone Here? (2016).” CCSF’s English Department, Creative Writing Program, Forum Magazine, and CCSF’s Concert and Lecture Series, are all honored to sponsor this exciting event with a local legend.

Peter Orner is the author of two novels (Love and Shame and Love, 2011, and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, 2006), two collections of short stories (Last Car Over Sagamore Bridge (2006), and Esther Stories, 2001). For his fiction, Orner has won numerous prestigious awards including the California Book Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize, the Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction. He has also been a finalist for the Pen Hemmingway Prize as well as the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. As an oral historian, Orner has published two books of narratives focused on human rights (Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives, 2010, and Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, 2008), with Voice of Witness/McSweeney’s, and is completing a third title, which is an oral history of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.

The reading will be held at the main campus of the City College of San Francisco, in the Multi-Use (MUB) Building, Room 140, at 50 Phelan Ave., San Francisco, located 2 blocks from the Balboa Park BART station; limited parking is available on campus. The reading will take place on Thursday, November 10th, at 11:00am. Seating begins at 10:45am. A Q and A session will proceed the reading, with reception to follow. This event is FREE and open to the public.