Wertman, Janet
Janet Wertman All World-Building Is Local, Sunday, May 5, 2:00-3:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum By day, Janet Wertman is a freelance grantwriter for impactful nonprofits. By night, she writes critically acclaimed, character-driven historical fiction – indulging a passion for the Tudor era she had harbored since she was eight years old and her parents let her […]
Watson, Holly
Holly Watson SoCal Crime Writers, Saturday, May 4, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum and Getting the Word Out, Sunday, May 5, 2:00-3:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Holly Watson is the founder of HWPR, a literary publicity firm based in LA in 2015. She has been working in publishing since the late 90’s, when she lived and worked […]
Ward, Pam
Pam Ward To Pimp a Butterfly, Saturday, May 4, 2:00-3:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Writer/designer, Pam Ward just released her poetry book BETWEEN GOOD MEN & NO MAN AT ALL, World Stage Press. She’s published two novels, WANT SOME GET SOME, and BAD GIRLS BURN SLOW, Kensington. A UCLA graduate, recipient of a California Arts Council […]
Vogl Saenz, Alicia
Alicia Vogl Saenz Embodied Landscapes: Water, Wildlife, and the Geographies that Shape Us, Sunday, May 5, 2:00-3:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Alicia Vogl Saenz is a poet, meditation instructor, and museum professional at LACMA who brings her queer and mixed immigrant background to her writing and teaching. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies such […]
Van Camp, Wendy
Wendy Van Camp City of Phantoms: Poetry of Unseen Boroughs, Saturday, May 4 12:30pm-1:45pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Wendy Van Camp is Poet Laureate Emerita for Anaheim, California. She is a speculative poet, author, editor, artist, and podcaster. Her poetry is influenced by cutting edge technology, astronomy, and daydreams. She is a nominated finalist for the […]
Tervalon, Jervey
Jervey Tervalon Another Southland: BIPOC Writers and their LA Stories, Saturday, May 4 at 12:30pm-1:30pm, and Craft and Creativity, Saturday, May 4, 2:00pm-3:00pm, and For the Love of Horror, Saturday, May 4, 5:00-6:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Jervey Tervalon, MFA, is the award-winning, Los Angeles Times bestselling author of five books including Understanding This, a novel […]
Teasley, Lisa
Lisa Teasley CLOSING PANEL: Seeing the World Through a Neighborhood – Three Visions, Sunday, May 5 at 5:00-6:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Lisa Teasley is the author of the award-winning story collection Glow in the Dark (Cune Press), and the critically acclaimed novels, Dive and Heat Signature (Bloomsbury). Coming this September is her new story collection […]
Sonksen, Mike
Mike Sonksen Beyond the Beach: Searching for Community in SoCal Neighborhoods, Saturday, May 4, 5:00-6:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum and Excavating the Future in Los Angeles: A Discussion of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, Sunday, May 5, 2:00-3:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum and CLOSING PANEL: Seeing the World Through a Neighborhood – Three Visions, Sunday, May 5, […]
Sarwar, Sehba
Sehba Sarwar Embodied Landscapes: Water, Wildlife, and the Geographies that Shape Us, Sunday, May 5, 2:00-3:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum (she/her), author of Black Wings (Veliz Books, 2019), is the recipient of multiple artist awards including the Los Angeles’s Department of Cultural Affairs’ annual Individual Master Artist Project Grant (COLA) Award ( 2023-24) and Pasadena‘s Arts […]
Sameth, Carla
Carla Sameth Visible Wisdom: Lesbian Poets over 60: Reading and In Conversation , Saturday, May 4, 2:00pm-3:00pm and Pasadena Rose Poets, Sunday, May 5, 12:30-1:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Carla Rachel Sameth is the 2022-2024 Co-Poet Laureate for Altadena, CA and is a 2023 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. Her books include […]
Reyna, Thelma T.
Thelma T. Reyna Altadena Poetry Review, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Thelma T. Reyna’s books have collectively won 20 national book awards. She has written 6 books: a short story collection, two poetry chapbooks, and three full-length poetry collections—Rising, Falling, All of Us; Reading Tea Leaves After Trump, which won 7 book honors; […]
Phillips, Gary
Gary Phillips Another Southland: BIPOC Writers and their LA Stories, Saturday, May 4 at 12:30pm-1:30pm and Beyond Borders: Readings and Conversations with African American, LGBTQ and other marginalized writers, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Gary Phillips edited the Anthony-winning anthology, The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, and written comics such as […]
