My essay about children in immigration court is live this morning, featuring original illustrations by artist Chris Koehler. BY ALIA VOLZ October 19th, 2014 The courtroom smells of talcum powder. On this afternoon’s docket, we have thirty-four children. Thirty-four out of 35,000 or 57,000 or 90,000 kids who have crossed our borders without permission since…
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Author of HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020).
Straight, No Chaser returns to Vesuvio
Straight, No Chaser: Writers at the Bar In what has become a Litquake tradition, hallowed North Beach watering hole Vesuvio Café opens its doors for an edgy and hilarious evening reading. This is a rare opportunity to glimpse authors performing new work in their natural habitat. Emceed by Alia Volz. Featuring Jack Boulware …
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The Write Stuff: Alia Volz on Not Settling and Being Difficult to Manipulate Posted By Evan Karp on Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:00 AM The Write Stuff is a series of interview profiles conducted by Litseen, where authors give exclusive readings from their work. What is art? Is it necessary? Why? I used to…
Read MoreRunner-up at the MOTH’s 2014 SF GRANDslam Championship!
This April, I told a story at the legendary Castro Theater – before a crowd of 1,400 people! Despite Celtic knots in my belly and severe danger of losing my shit completely – I did just fine, thank you.
Read MoreSF Weekly’s 2014 “Best Of” Award!
Best Writers Without a Book San Francisco 2014 By Evan Karp Chances are you could make a list of more than 10 people you know right now who deserve to be on this list. In a highly unscientific Facebook poll, 124 participants answered my question: Who is your favorite Bay Area writer without a book?…
Read MorePerforming at THE MOTH GrandSLAM Championship – April 8th!
San Francisco’s Inaugural GrandSLAM Championship: Fish Out of Water The Moth presents the GrandSLAM, a battle of wits and words – fierce, hilarious, heartbreaking and all points between. Listen as ten StorySLAM champs tell tales of being out of their element: the freak, the foreigner, dressed for the opera at the clambake, out of the loop,…
Read More“Wutown” in Defenestration Magazine
Here’s an excerpt. Read the full piece in Defenestration. 9:50AM I operate 01194, a white Plymouth bearing the sundial insignia of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation. The steering wheel is constructed on the right, to facilitate chalking. I hang the chalking stick out the window and cruise up Fountain at 4 miles per hour,…
Read More“Get Your Head On” selected for The Writing Disorder’s “Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2012”
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Read MoreThe Litquake Author Interview
Alia Volz: Chaos in a Fur Coat See Alia Sunday, October 7, at Vesuvio for “Do You Come Here Often?”: Writers at the Bar, with Alan Black, Jack Boulware, Beth Lisick, Chuck Thompson, and Missy Robac. 1. What is your favorite book? It must be As I Lay Dying, because I’ve reread it more than any other…
Read MoreSexy Litquake ‘Password’ to Prohibition
San Francisco Chronicle – by Louis Pitzman Published 05:53 p.m., Wednesday, July 18, 2012 Alia Volz participates in a Litquake event called “PASSWORD: Litquake’s Literary Speakeasy,” in which Bay Area authors dress up as, and read from, Prohibition-era writers. Volz charakter is Louise Brooks. San Francisco, Cal. on Monday, July 16, 2012. Photo: Sonja Och, The…
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