My Baby Rides the Short Bus
Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Featuring readings by New York City writers Ayun Halliday Jennifer Silverman, Sabrina Chapadjiev, and Sharis Ingram.
Ayun Halliday is the author of four self-mocking autobiographies (No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, The Big Rumpus, Job Hopper and Dirty Sugar Cookies), and the picture book, Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo. In her spare time, she is the Chief Primatologist & sole staff member of the quarterly zine, The East Village Inky, as well as BUST magazine's Mother Superior columnist.
Jennifer Silverman is a recovering journalist, mama of two rambunctious sons, agitator and co-editor of My Baby Rides the Short Bus. Her writing about mothering her son with autism has appeared in Hip Mama and off our backs, among others. She lives in Queens, NY.
Sabrina Chapadjiev is a freelance writer and editor. Her work has been featured in Adbusters, Gathering of the Tribes, riffRAG, and Streetwise. Her full-length collection, Cliterature, has been featured in the International Museum of Women's on-line exhibition. Her first book, Live Through This- On Creativity and Self-Destruction, was a Lambda Literary award finalist.
Sharis Ingram is the mother of two children with PDD diagnoses. She is a life-long New Yorker who currently lives in the Bronx.
In lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in My Baby Rides the Short Bus provides parents of “special needs” kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by countercultural parents, this anthology, taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications of parenting while raising children with disabilities.
November 14th, 2009 at Bluestockings Bookstore, Lower East Side, Manhattan
172 Allen Street(F or V train to 2nd Ave.), 7 pm. Free!
For more information or to request review copies, please email shortbusbook@yahoo.com
