Ziemska, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ziemska Bookstores We Love, Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Elizabeth Ziemska is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and Tordotcom, among others. It has garnered The Pushcart Prize, a Shirley Jackson Award nomination, and a Kurt Vonnegut […]
Wright, James F.
James F. Wright Comic Disruption (moderator), Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm, Mt. View Mausoleum James F. Wright is a queer writer, reader, and ramen eater based in Los Angeles. He has contributed stories to two Eisner Award-winning anthologies — 2018’s Elements: Fire with Rashad Doucet, edited by Taneka Stotts and Shing Yin Khor; and 2021’s You Died: An […]
Vuong, Phuong T.
Phuong T. Vuong Local Presses Read with Red Hen Press, Cahuenga Press, and FlowerSong Press, Saturday, May 6, 12:30pm-1:45pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Phuong T. Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet and essayist who cannot stop thinking about language, memory, and migration. She is the author of The House I Inherit (Finishing Line, 2019). Her writing has appeared in American Poetry […]
Manuel, Douglas
Douglas Manuel Local Presses Read with Red Hen Press, Cahuenga Press, and FlowerSong Press, Saturday, May 6, 12:30pm-1:45pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Douglas Manuel was born in Anderson, Indiana and now resides in Long Beach, California. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, an MFA in poetry from Butler University, and a […]
Koertge, Ron
Ron Koertge Local Presses Read with Red Hen Press, Cahuenga Press, and FlowerSong Press, Saturday, May 6, 12:30pm-1:45pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Ron Koertge’s latest book of poems is “I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend.” RonKoertge.com.
Bain, C.
C. Bain Local Presses Read with Red Hen Press, Cahuenga Press, and FlowerSong Press, Saturday, May 6, 12:30pm-1:45pm, Mt. View Mausoleum C. Bain is a gender liminal writer, performer, and artist. His work focuses on interstices of sex and violence, the queer body subjected to the extraction of knowledge. His plays have been presented at […]
Daniels, Ezra Claytan
Ezra Claytan Daniels Crafting the Future, Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Ezra Claytan Daniels is a mixed-race (Black/white) American multidisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa, Ezra is the creator of the award-winning sci-fi/horror graphic novels Upgrade Soul (Oni Press) and BTTM FDRS (Fantagraphics). His work has been featured on […]
Aoki, Ryka
Ryka Aoki Crafting the Future, Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Ryka Aoki is a poet, composer, teacher, and novelist. Her latest novel, Light From Uncommon Stars (Tor Books 2021) was an Alex, SCKA, and Otherwise Award winner, and was also a finalist for the Hugo, Locus, and Ignyte Awards. Ryka is a […]
Khor, Shing Yin
Shing Yin Khor Comic Disruption, Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Shing Yin Khor is a graphic novelist and writer based in Los Angeles, CA, by way of Malacca, Malaysia. Their second graphic novel, The Legend of Auntie Po, was published by Penguin Random House in June 2021, and was an Eisner winner […]
Williams, Jarrett
Jarrett Williams Comic Disruption, Sunday, May 7 at 3:30pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Jarrett Williams was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, earning a BFA and an MFA in sequential art. In addition to his pro-wrestling adventure series Super Pro K.O.! from Oni Press, Williams has worked on […]
Smith, Sherri L.
Sherri L. Smith Crafting the Future, Sunday, May 7 at 2:oopm, Mt. View Mausoleum Sherri L. Smith writes contemporary, speculative, and historical fiction novels, as well as nonfiction and comics. Her historical novels The Blossom and the Firefly and Flygirl have respectively been awarded the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Golden Kite and […]
Maruyama, Kate
Kate Maruyama Crafting the Future, Sunday, May 7 at 2:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Kate Maruyama is the author of Harrowgate (47North) Family Solstice (Omnium Gatherum) which was named Best Fiction Book of 2021 by Rue Morgue Maagazine, and Halloween Beyond the Gentleman’s Suit (Crystal Lake) as well as the upcoming Bleak Houses (Raw Dog Screaming […]
