Edward Gauvin was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, has been a full-time freelancer since 2006, translating almost exclusively creative work in various fields from film to fiction, with a personal focus on contemporary comics (BD) and post-Surrealist literatures of the fantastic. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Harper’s, The Guardian, and World Literature Today, and twice won the British Comparative Literature Association’s John Dryden Translation Competition. It has also been shortlisted for several major awards—the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the Albertine Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, the National Translation Award—and twice nominated for French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He has received fellowships from the NEA, PEN America, the Fulbright program, and the Centre National du Livre, as well as residencies from Ledig House, the Lannan Foundation, the Banff Centre, and the Belgian government. A multiple grantee of the French Voices program from the French Embassy, he is a frequent contributor to their cultural initiatives. As a translation advocate, he has written widely, spoken at universities and festivals, and taught at the Bread Loaf Translation Conference, where he will be returning (virtually) this summer. The translator of over 400 graphic novels, he is a contributing editor for comics at Words Without Borders. His own fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, West Branch, and the Saturday Evening Post under the name H.V. Chao, in honor of his mother.
Braeden Harris will read “My Father’s Hand,” by Edward Chauvin (H.V. Chao). Braeden (he/him) is primarily a stage actor in Sacramento and is ecstatic to be a part of Stories on Stage! Credits include: I and You, Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas At Pemberley (Capital Stage), Insertion (Murphys Creek Theatre), Lobby Hero (The Stage at Burke), The Play That Goes Wrong (San Francisco Playhouse), The Newlywed Game (B Street Theatre). Braeden earned his Associates Degree in Theatre Arts from American River College and is a two-time nominee for the Irene Ryan Scholarship from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. @braedenharris
Leslie Kirk Campbell’s debut short story collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande) won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, is a 2022 Women’s National Book Association Great Group Reads Selection, a finalist for American Book Fest’s 2022 Best Book Awards, and a 2022 Foreword INDIES finalist in short fiction. Her award-winning stories have been published in Ploughshares, Arts & Letters, Briar Cliff Review and elsewhere. The author of Journey into Motherhood: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery (Riverhead), she has published features in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine about teenage gun violence and improving SF public schools. Campbell, who received an MA in Poetry from San Francisco State and an MFA in Fiction from Bennington Writing Seminars, has received fellowships from Ucross and Playa. A native Californian, she teaches at Ripe Fruit Writing, a creative writing program she founded in San Francisco in 1991. She is a member of The Writers Grotto.
Patty Shade will read two pieces by Leslie Kirk Campbell: “City of Angels” and “The Hermit’s Tattoo.” Patty Shade has been an audiobook narrator since 2020. She retired from her position as a Montessori Elementary teacher three years ago to concentrate on audiobook narration exclusively (patriciashade.com). Along with her teaching career, Patty was a stage actor for over thirty years including work with the Davis Shakespeare Festival. She is also currently a co-director of the Davis Youth Choir, teaching music and choral singing to kindergarten through 2nd grade students in Davis and surrounding communities. She has been a long time singer with the Davis Chorale. Patty is a proud member of SAG-Aftra.