Ken
Nash spent his youth following a long family tradition of
working for the Mongolian State Circus. He toured extensively
throughout Asia and Europe caring for the circus’s
renowned performing elephants and albino crocodiles. To pass
the time during long tours, he made up stories and sang to
the animals.
Serchmaa Byambaa, a fortune teller at the renowned Ulan
Bator Circus School in Mongolia, predicted Ken would one
day live in Czechoslovakia organizing literary and performance
events. Ten years later, Ken found himself living in Prague,
working as a cartoonist, illustrator and animator. He soon
started organizing the Alchemy Reading & Performance
Series. Ken still enjoys writing stories and singing for
elephants, though.
Ken will be reading from his yet to be completed short story
collection The Brain Harvest, and performing original music
along with the Quagmire Ensemble. You can view Ken’s
illustration and cartoon work online at www.KenNash.com. Click here for an interview with Ken
Nash by Radio Praha