For one night only on February 1st, authors from the small press Game Over Books will be turning the portal into a poetry extravaganza. Featuring five authors with deep roots in the Bay Area, we're bringing you a night of readings from collections released through Game Over Books, new looks at in-the-works poems, and celebrating all things indie. All authors will have copies of their books, and we'll have information about GOB's next submission period, too.
Giovanna Lomanto is a Pushcart-Prize nominated poet and artist. She has published three full-length poetry collections, a limited art edition, and two chapbooks. A recent graduate of NYU's MFA program, her work has been supported by U.C. Berkeley, KQED, and the SFMOMA archive. In addition to working as a teaching artist and nonprofit organizer, she has also co-hosted the Living Room Poetry series and served as the lead curator for the San Francisco Literary Festival's inaugural Out Loud weekend for Queer & BIPOC writers. Currently, she serves as the co-owner of the indie press Game Over Books. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their lion head bunny Maggie.
Summer Farah is a Palestinian writer from California. The author of I could die today and live again, she is a member of the Radius of Arab American Writers and the National Book Critics Circle. She is calling on you to recommit yourself to the liberation of the Palestinian people each day.
Sagaree Jain (she/they) is a poet, writer, researcher, and queer from the Bay. Their writing has been featured in Autostraddle, The Margins, them. magazine, and The Offing, where they served as the Micro Editor. Her book SHRINES is out from Game Over Books now. She is obsessed with words, fire, bodies, reproductive justice, oceans, abolition, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. They are class and caste privileged and tweet at @sagareej.
Zara Jamshed is a queer, trans, disabled Pakistani and Indian American poet from NYC living in Emeryville. Their debut poetry collection Neither Created Nor Destroyed was a semifinalist for the Pamet River Prize, a finalist for the Stories Award for Poetry, and is available now with Game Over Books. Zara is currently working on their second collection focusing on the rise of Hindu nationalism and Islamophobic violence in India.
jelal huyler is a biracial-black poet who does not condone linear time. / published individual works can be found in Ink & Nebula, 3Elements Review, Eleven Eleven, Drunk in a Midnight Choir, 580 Split, The Change Agent, FIVE:2:ONE Magazine, & Likely Red Press / his voice and work have been included in the documentary Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequality, which explores race and restorative justice in the United States / he is the author of the book of poems, A Man Was Lynched Today published by GAME OVER BOOKS.