July 18, 2009
San Francisco
Kathi Kamen Goldmark
Kathi Kamen Goldmark is the author of And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, a novel; co-author of The Great Rock & Roll Joke Book, and Mid-Life Confidential: the Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude; and has contributed essays to several anthologies—including Feed Me! (edited by Harriet Brown), Single Woman of a Certain Age (edited by Jane Ganahl) and My California (benefiting the California Arts Council). She has also worked in publishing “on the inside,” for nearly every major publisher, as a media escort and publicist. With Sam Barry, she writes a monthly aspiring-writer-advice column in BookPage called “The Author Enablers.” A 2007 San Francisco Library Laureate and winner of the 2008 National Women’s Book Association award, Kathi is the founder and a member of the all-author rock band the Rock Bottom Remainders, president and janitor of “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” Records, Author Liaison for many high-profile literary events—including Book Group Expo and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library annual Laureates Dinner—and has been the producer of the nationally-distributed radio show West Coast Live for nearly five years. She likes to think she is ready for anything.
