Reading with Bart Schneider and Daniel Coshnear

Bart Schneider

Bart Schneider is the author of the novels Blue Bossa, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Secret Love, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Beautiful Inez; and The Man in the Blizzard. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area

Daniel Coshnear

Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award.

Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012)

Friday, February 17, 2023
7:00 pm

Reading with Bart Schneider and Daniel Coshnear

Bart Schneider’s new book from Kelly’s Cove Press, The Daily Feast, is a joyous and savory collaboration between old friends, Sonoma painter Chester Arnold and Berkeley poet Bart Schneider. All the work focuses on food and drink, from oysters on the half shell to dirty martinis, with an afterword by legendary Napa chef and restaurateur Cindy Pawlcyn

Dan Coshnear lives in Guerneville, California with his wife and two children, works at a group home for the homeless and mentally ill, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension and in other North Bay facilities. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly’s Cove Press 2012) and a novella, Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015) His newest story collection is Separation Anxiety (Unsolicited Press, 2021).

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Bart Schneider

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Bart Schneider grew up in San Francisco and lives in Sonoma. He spent twenty-five years living and working in Minnesota, where he was the founding editor of Hungry Mind Review and Speakeasy Magazine. He is the author of two poetry collections, Morning Opera and Water for a Stranger, and five novels, BGiacometti’s Last Ride, Nameless Dame, Man in the Blizzard, Beautiful Inez, Secret Love, and Blue Bossa. In 2020, Schneider published two serialized novels, Separation Sonoma and Voice of Sonoma, inspired by life in the time of COVID-19. After Covid, he collaborated with his good friend Sonoma painter Chester Arnold on The Daily Feast, a food-inspired book of poetry and paintings.

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Daniel Coshnear

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Daniel Coshnear, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1961, lives with wife and two children in Guerneville, California. He works part time at a group home in Santa Rosa serving homeless men and women with mental illnesses, and teaches in a variety of settings including the UC Berkeley Extension writing program. He is author of two story collections, Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award, and the recent Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012).


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