Summer Reading - Saturday, June 4, 2011 at Cantina SF,                                                     580 Sutter St., San Francisco (map), 7pm.

Featuring California Book Award-winner Michael Jaime-Becerra, Lyric Poetry Award-winning poet D. A. Powell, Best New American Voices author Peter Mountford, featured literary journal ZYZZYVA's editor, Laura Cogan, introducingElliot Gilbert Award-winning fiction writer Leticia Del Toro reading from her work, Bay Area writer Teresa Burns Gunther and singer-songwriter Phil Lang.

D. A. Powell

 is the author of a trilogy of books, including Tea (Wesleyan, 1998); Lunch (2000); and Cocktails(Graywolf, 2004), which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book, Chronic (2009) received the Kingsley Tufts Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

Michael Jaime Becerra is the author of This Time Tomorrow, a novel, and Every Night Is Ladies' Night, a collection of interrelated stories, which was awarded a California Book Award for a First Work of Fiction.  He also teaches at the University of California, Riverside, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing.

Peter Mountford's first novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, was published in April by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. His short fiction has recently appeared in Best New American Voices 2008, Conjunctions, Michigan Quarterly Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere. A 2010-11 writer-in-residence at Seattle Arts and Lectures, he has won fellowships and grants from Yaddo, Bread Loaf, the Elizabeth George Foundation, and Film Independent’s Screenwriter’s Lab.

ZYZZYVA publishes the best prose, poetry, and visual art produced by West Coast writers and artists. Since 1985, we’ve published such writers as Sherman Alexie, Raymond Carver, Aimee Bender, Po Bronson, F.X. Toole, Haruki Murakami, Richard Rodriguez, and Daniel Handler; poets such as Kay Ryan, Adrienne Rich, Matthew Zapruder, Czeslaw Milosz, W.S. Di Piero, and Francisco X. Alarcon; and we’ve featured work from such artists as Ed Ruscha, Sandow Birk, Laurie Anderson, and Wayne Thiebaud.