About the readers/performers:

Frank Portman, aka Dr. Frank, is the author of King Dork. He's also the leader of pop punk group The Mr. T Experience.

Eric Spitznagel is the author of Fast Forward:
Confessions of A Porn Screenwriter. He's a contributing editor for The Believer and website editor for Monkeybicycle. He's also written and edited for Playboy, Esquire, Harper's, Spy, Blender, McSweeney's and Salon.com.

Marta Acosta is the author of Happy Hour At Casa Dracula. She's a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and The Contra Costa Newspapers.

Ahn-Hoa Thi Nguyen's poetry has appeared in the Asian Pacific American Journal, Nha Magazine, and AS IS: A Collection of Literary And Visual Art by Emerging Vietnamese Americans. She's the founder of Pomelo Press and a member of the Vietnamese Artists Collective.

Angie Krass has performed the one-woman show Sex, Jesus, Biscuits and Me at the Dark Room Theater. She's also performed at Chick Wit, QComedy and the Women on the Way festival.

Joan Price is the author of Better Than I Ever
Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty and the Anytime, Anywhere Exercise Book. She puts on sex and aging workshops in Sebastopol.

About Writers With Drinks:
Writers With Drinks has won "Best Literary Night" from the SF Bay Guardian readers' poll three years in a row and was recently named "Best Literary Drinking" by the SF Weekly. The spoken word "variety show" mixes genres to raise money for other magazine, a national magazine for people who feel pigeonholed by mainstream media categories. The award-winning show includes poetry, stand-up comedy, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, literary fiction, erotica, memoir, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.

Host Charlie Anders is the author of the Lambda Award-winning Choir Boy (2005 Soft Skull Press) and the co-editor, with Annalee Newitz, of She's Such A Geek (Seal Press 2007). She also publishes other magazine.