Fromson, Xach
Xach Fromson For the Love of Horror, Saturday, May 4, 5:00-6:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Xach Fromson (2013 – ) is a Los Angeles native who has been obsessed with horror and dark fiction from a very young age. After a brief and ill-advised attempt at being a theater major, he received his BA in Creative […]
Foster, GT
GT Foster Altadena Poetry Review, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum GT Foster, a twice-nominated Pushcart poet, is a California native, retired educator, and 52-year married father and grandfather of 2. He was 6 -year managing editor of SPECTRUM, a poetry and art quarterly and host of Saturday Afternoon Poetry Deep Critique. He resides […]
Flores, Sarah
Sarah Flores Altadena Poetry Review, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Sarah Flores is a NASA engineer, street artist, and delights in raising kids with her husband—an Iraq War veteran. When she’s not painting portraits at chalk festivals, you can find her delving into writing and poetry that explore her family’s healing journeys after […]
Garcia, Emma
Emma Garcia Getting the Word Out, Sunday, May 5, 2:00-3:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Emma Garcia is a writer and artist, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. It was after winning her first art contest at the age of five that she discovered her passion for the enchanting world of storytelling. She later graduated […]
Fernandez, Emily
Emily Fernandez Poetry of Preservation: Other Californias and Beyond, Sunday, May 5, 3:30 – 4:30pm Emily Fernandez, author of two poetry chapbooks, Pliny and Other Problems (Bamboo Dart Press 2023) and Procession of Martyrs (Finishing Line Press 2018), is an Assistant Professor of English at Pasadena City College where she teaches composition and creative writing. […]
Houser, Jody
Jody Houser Writing Heroes for all Ages: Comic Book Authors, Sunday, May 5, 12:30-1:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer at eight years old and never looked back. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College, where she completed her master’s thesis in screenwriting and was a […]
Hernandez, Mya
Mya Hernandez Stories From Kids on the Block: Young Pasadenans Share their Writings, Sunday, May 5th, 12:30 – 1:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Mya Hernandez (they/them) is a Pasadena High School alumni who graduated in 2023. Currently in their first year of college, Mya is working on getting their associate’s degree in natural sciences at Pasadena […]
Gaskell, Morgan
Morgan Gaskell Stories From Kids on the Block: Young Pasadenans Share their Writings, Sunday, May 5th, 12:30 – 1:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Morgan Gaskell (she/they) is a senior at Pasadena High School in the APP Academy and joined the PUSD Student Think Tank in 2021. She loves all things science, nature, and learning. At school, […]
Gutman, Karin
Karin Gutman The Neighborhood Narrative, Sunday, May 5th, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Karin Gutman, MFA, is a memoir and story coach who has been guiding writers for over 20 years towards discovering and writing their life-based stories. The safe, dynamic spaces she creates allow for this deeply personal work to unfold, as writers […]
Feitell, Merrill
Merrill Feitell The Neighborhood Narrative, Sunday, May 5th, 2:00 – 3:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Merrill Feitell’s first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and her stories have appeared in such publications as McSweeney’s Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Best New American Voices. She earned her […]
Fragoza, Carribean
Carribean Fragoza Beyond the Beach: Searching for Community in SoCal Neighborhoods, Saturday, May 4th, 5:00 – 6:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Carribean Fragoza is a fiction and nonfiction writer from South El Monte. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You, published in 2021 by City Lights, was a finalist for a 2022 PEN […]
English, Karen
Karen English Beyond Borders: Readings and Conversations with African American, LGBTQ and other marginalized writers, Saturday, May 4, 3:30-4:30pm Karen English began writing stories when she was seven. Her mother called them, The Miss Flouncy Stories. She wishes she could read just one Flouncy story today just to see what her skill level was, at […]
