Torregrossa, Mary
Mary Torregrossa Altadena Poetry Review, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Mary E. Torregrossa, often noted as a storyteller, is more importantly a story-listener, a practice honed by her job as an ESL teacher in Southern California. Originally from Rhode Island, she blends images and experiences of both coasts into her poetry. Her first […]
Rivas, Dra. Martha
Dra. Martha Rivas Altadena Poetry Review, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Dr. Martha bridges her scholarly brilliance into critical-poetics to deconstruct white supremacy and systemic oppression, while celebrating the resilience by Communities of Color. Dr. Martha is a visual artist and spoken-word cantadora; her critical-poetics appear in the 2017 AMAE Journal; 2024 SOMOS […]
Silich, Emily
Emily Silich Altadena Poetry Review, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Emily Silich is an astrophysicist based in Pasadena, California. In between telescope exposures and while waiting for her code to finish tessellating simulated dark matter particles, she enjoys weaving elements of her day-to-day sciencey ramblings into poetic forms. The works featured in the […]
Brittan Rosado, Michelle
Michelle Brittan Rosado Poetry of Preservation: Other Californias and Beyond, Sunday, May 5, 3:30 – 4:30pm Michelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was published by University of Wisconsin Press. Her chapbook, Theory on Falling into a Reef, was the winner […]
Ruland, Jim
Jim Ruland Punks from Music to Literature: The New Writers, Sunday, May 5, 3:30 – 4:30pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Jim Ruland is the LA Times bestselling author of Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records, which was named a best book of 2022 by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. He is […]
Moran Reed, Stephanie
Stephanie Moran Reed Bookstores that Make the Neighborhood, Sunday, May 5, 3:30-4:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Stephanie Moran Reed is a native Angeleno and the owner of MiJa Books. Co-founded with her husband in 2020, MiJa Books is a multicultural children’s bookstore and online resource for diverse and inclusive books. She currently hosts multicultural and multilingual […]
Salinas, Iván
Iván Salinas 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 Iván Salinas is a Mexican poet and co-editor of Drifter Zine residing in the San Fernando Valley. An alumnus of Cal State Northridge, his work has been published in The Acentos Review, […]
Silverio, Aster
Aster Silverio Stories From Kids on the Block: Young Pasadenans Share their Writings, Sunday, May 5th, 12:30 – 1:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Aster Silverio (they/them) is a student at Pasadena City College studying Psychology. They joined the PUSD Student Think Tank in 2023 as part of Cohort 3. Aster enjoys reading, playing video games, and […]
Sheshadri, Mallika
Mallika Sheshadri Stories From Kids on the Block: Young Pasadenans Share their Writings, Sunday, May 5th, 12:30 – 1:30pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Mallika Sheshadri (she/her) is a junior at Pasadena High School and joined the PUSD Student Think Tank in 2023. At PHS, she’s a part of the APP Academy, serves as editor-in-chief of the […]
Tokaji, David
David Tokaji The Influence of Songwriting on Literature, May 4th, 5:00 – 6:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum David Tokaji is the songwriter, guitar player, and frontman for the band Dry September. Tokaji’s songs focus on class equity and social justice, including the Civil Right Movement and the struggles of the working poor. He also works as […]
Sanford, Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Sanford The Influence of Songwriting on Literature, May 4th, 5:00 – 6:00pm, Mt. View Mausoleum Gwendolyn Sanford, a proud Altadena local, grew up in near-by Sierra Madre and many of the folk songs she sings reflect the natural environment of the San Gabriel Valley and the surrounding foothills. Outside of writing songs, she’s an […]
Ross, Kathryn H.
Kathryn H. Ross Stories Now Told: New LA Authors, Saturday, May 4th, 5:00 – 6:00pm, Mountain View Mausoleum Kathryn H. Ross is a SoCal-based writer and the author of Black Was Not A Label (Red Hen Press, 2022), a collection of personal essays and poetry, and Count It All Loss (GoldScriptCo, 2021), a poetry chapbook. […]
