Sacramento’s award-winning reading series features short fiction by established and emerging writers from Sacramento and surrounding areas, introduced by their authors and read by actors. The series runs on the Final Friday of every month at the Sacramento Poetry Center.
Valerie Fioravanti, the brains and brawn behind Stories on Stage, writes fiction, essays, and prose poems. Her linked collection, Garbage Night at the Opera, won the 2011 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction and is forthcoming from BkMk Press in 2012. Stories from the collection have appeared in North American Review, Cimarron Review, and Night Train, among others. She received a Fulbright Fellowship to work on a novel set in Italy, Bel Casino. Her essays have appeared in Eclectica, Silk Road, Puerto del Sol, and others. She teaches for the UCLA Writers’ Program (online), UC Davis Extension, runs monthly workshops from her living room, and coordinates the Master Teacher Weekend Workshops series. A NYC native, she lives contentedly in tree-lined, walkable midtown Sacramento–home to a great restaurant scene; impressive, wide-ranging theatre options; and some very talented and generous writers.
