Myriam Gurba & Elizabeth Earley // The Feminist Bookstore & Library Shop SD

Join us for a special event co-hosted by The Feminist Bookstor and Library Shop SD in Mission Hills.

Join The Feminist Bookstore and The Library Shop SD for a special two-part evening in Mission Hills, San Diego, featuring acclaimed writers Myriam Gurba and Elizabeth Earley in conversation. The night begins at The Library Shop SD with readings from Gurba’s memoir Poppy State and Earley’s Little Deaths All in a Row: Essays on Sex and Death, followed by a lively discussion and book signing. In the second hour, the gathering moves to The Feminist Bookstore for an intimate creative writing workshop, featuring a generative prompt, dedicated writing time, and an open-mic-style sharing space. Celebrate bold memoir, feminist thought, and creative community across two beloved local bookstores.

Myriam Gurba is a writer and activist. Her first book, the short story collection Dahlia Season, won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. O, the Oprah Magazine ranked her true-crime memoir Mean as one of the “Best LGBTQ Books of All Time.” Her recent essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism, and won the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. She has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Vox, and Paris Review. Her next book, Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings, was published by Timber Press in October 2025.

Elizabeth Earley: I am the author of the popular Substack series, Queering Reality, with 100,000 subscribers. My debut memoir in essays, Little Deaths All in a Row, Essays on Sex And Death is available now. I am also the author of two novels: A Map of Everything, a debut finalist for the Lambda Literary Prize; and Like Wings, Your Hands (Red Hen Press), winner of the Women’s Prose Prize (judged by Aimee Bender), the American Fiction Prize for Best LGBTQ novel, and a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction by the Publishing Triangle, alongside Ocean Vuong and Jacqueline Woodson. In addition to two published works of fiction, I hold an MFA in Fiction from Antioch University-Los Angeles. My stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The First Line Magazine, Fugue, Hair Trigger, and Glimmer Train, among other publications. I was awarded the David Friedman Memorial Prize for Fiction and was twice a finalist for the AWP New Journals Award. I have received two Pushcart nominations and was a finalist for the 2011 Bakeless Literary Prize for Fiction. I am currently the owner of The Feminist Bookstore and president of Jaded Ibis Press, a nonprofit feminist press committed to publishing socially engaged literature.