Events

On Wednesday, February 23, at 3 p.m. in the Sala Quetzal of the Biblioteca,

Canadian short story writer Jan Harvey will read from her work in PEN’s Writers Aloud series.

 While relatively new to the short fiction genre, Jan has worked as a journalist and feature writer for Canadian newspapers. Her play “George’s Vision” won best original play in the Dawson City, Yukon, Drama Festival. She has worked as Editor of the Weekender newspaper and ran her own advertising agency in Whitehorse for eighteen years. After retiring from advertising, Jan followed her two passions—music and fiction writing. She completed a piano performer’s degree with the Royal Conservatory of Toronto and began writing short stories. Presently, Jan is working on a collection of short stories that depict the tragic and the comic aspects of life in Canada’s far north. One of her stories was recently published in the inaugural edition of SOL, English Writing in Mexico, literary magazine.

 Joining Jan will be poet and series founder Bill Pearlman, who recently was a featured reader at the Language of the Soul Festival in San Luis Obispo, California. Bill has published several volumes of verse and a book about Jungian psychodrama, Characters of the Sacred. His most recent collection is Brazilian Incarnation (Selected Poems 1967-2004). He is co-editor of Sol, English writing in Mexico and is editor of a blog roughroadreview.com. He has taught at Univ. of New Mexico, UCSB, LSU and NM Central Community College. He is also a licensed psychotherapist in New Mexico and trained in Jungian analysis in Santa Fe, NM.

Proceeds for the PEN series help support both Biblioteca and PEN scholarships for

children. PEN is an international writers’ organization which supports writers worldwide.