Charm City Spec: Nadia Bulkin, Vajra Chandrasekera, And Sarah Pinsker
Come join The Ivy Bookshop on our back patio on the evening of September 8 for the summer edition of Charm City Spec! For this edition of Baltimore’s speculative fiction reading series, you’ll hear from Nadia Bulkin, Vajra Chandrasekera, and Sarah Pinsker! We are all in for a treat.
Nadia Bulkin is the author of the short story collection She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017). She has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award five times. She grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia before relocating to Lincoln, Nebraska. She has two political science degrees and lives in Washington, D.C.
Vajra Chandrasekera is from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has published over fifty short stories in magazines and anthologies including Analog, Black Static and Clarkesworld, among others, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His debut novel The Saint of Bright Doors is out now from Tor. He is online at vajra.me and probably on whatever social media still exists at the time you’re reading this.
Sarah Pinsker is the Hugo and Nebula-winning author of over sixty works of short fiction as well as the novels We Are Satellites and A Song For A New Day and the collections Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea and, this year, Lost Places. She is also a singer/songwriter. She lives in Baltimore with her wife and two weird dogs.
