Bazaar Writers Salon

Now in its 14th year, Bazaar Writers Salon is a fun and social monthly literary reading series featuring the very best writing from the Bay Area and beyond in the warm and intimate environs of Bazaar Cafe in San Francisco. November's reading will feature the poetry and fiction of Kate Busatto, Rucy Cui, David Gorin, and Elena Pinnen, and will be hosted by Peter Kline. Kate Busatto is originally from Pittsburgh. L Her work has been featured in Threepenny Review, Five Dials, The Moth, and Tampa Review, among others. Kate has received support to attend the 2025 Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction. She is a 2025-26 John Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. Kate is currently working on her first novel. Rucy Cui is a writer and 2024-2026 Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. Her stories have been awarded the Barry Hannah Prize and the Bennington Fiction Prize, with additional work forthcoming in The Georgia Review. Her nonfiction appears in Lonely Planet. She has received support from Monson Arts, Ucross Foundation, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the University of Wyoming, where she earned her MFA, and beyond. She is currently at work on a novel. David Gorin is the author of To a Distant Country, selected by Jennifer Chang for the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship and published in August 2025. His writing received the 2023 Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and has been supported by MacDowell and Millay Arts. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA, MA, and MPhil in English Literature from Yale University. In recent years he has taught creative writing and literature at the Pratt Institute, Deep Springs College, Stanford Continuing Studies, the MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution (via the Yale Prison Education Initiative), Eastern Correctional Facility (via the Bard Prison Initiative), and Yale. He curates the WAVEMACHINE poetry and performance series in San Francisco and is co-editor of The Constant Critic at Fence. Elena Pinnen is a PhD in Italian contemporary literature and medicine at the University of Cambridge. She is currently working as an Italian instructor in San Francisco. Her most recent collection of poems, On a Breaking Wave and Other Natural Catastrophes (The Los Angeles Press, 2024), speaks of waves and surfing, and engages the truths of colonialism in the Pacific. For such a book, Elena was awarded the Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2025. Elena’s poems have been featured in a number of anthologies in the U.S., such as ‘San Francisco Bards Poetry Anthology,’ ‘Poets’ Choice,’ and ‘The Healing Muse’. ~ Peter Kline is the author of two poetry collections, Mirrorforms (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Deviants (SFASU Press). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he has also received residency fellowships from the Hemingway House, Amy Clampitt House, and James Merrill House. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and many other journals, as well as the Best New Poets series, the Verse Daily website, the Random House anthology of metrical poetry, Measure for Measure, and the Persea anthology of self-portrait poems, More Truly and More Strange. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. He teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University, and can be found online at www.peterklinepoetry.com. www.peterklinepoetry.com/bazaar-writers www.facebook.com/BazaarWritersSalon

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