Valerie Werder will be reading from her new novel Thieves, and David Buuck will be reading from his works as Bay Area publisher, writer, and poet.  More to be announced.

Valerie Werder is a fiction writer, recovering art worker, and doctoral candidate in film and visual studies at Harvard University. Her writing has been published in Public Culture, BOMB, and Flash Art, and performed at Participant Inc, New York, and Artspace New Haven. Werder is a 2023-23 PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program Mentor. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with a black cat and hundreds of books.

David Buuck lives in Oakland, CA. He is the co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics and founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics. Recent books include Noise in the Face of (Roof Books, 2016), SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem, 2015), An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013), and the chapbook The Riotous Outside (Commune Editions, 2018). He teaches at Mills College, where he is the chief steward of the adjunct faculty union, and at San Quentin’s Prison University Program, and is the Academic Director of the Clemente Course in the Humanities at Oakland Adult Career Education.