Ari Banias, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano + Cintia Santana

Ari Banias, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano, and Cintia Santana read at Alley Cat Books, Saturday, January 28, 2017 at 7:00 pm, in support of Ari Banias’s new book, Anybody (W.W. Norton). This event is organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian.

Ari Banias is the author of the book Anybody (W.W. Norton, 2016), and the chapbook What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Poetry, A Public Space, and the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics. The recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown & Stanford University, he lives in Berkeley & works at Small Press Distribution.Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano is the author of the poetry collections, Amorcito Maricón; Santo de la Pata Alzada; and, Tragic Bitches, which he co-wrote with Adelina Anthony and Dino Foxx. Lorenzo is the editor of Queer Codex: Chile Love; Queer Codex: Rooted; and, the forthcoming Joto: An Anthology of Queer Chicano Poetry. A member of the Macondo Writers community and former writer for Change.org’s “Race in America” and “Gay Rights” blogs, his work appears in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry; For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough; Queer in Aztlán; as well as the journals, ZYZZYVA; and, Yellow Medicine Review. Lorenzo is the founder of Kórima Press, a queer Chicana/o Press; and, Publisher and Executive Director of Justice Matters Press, a multiracial social and racial justice press.

Cintia Santana’s poems, fiction, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Narrative, Pleiades, RHINO, Spillway, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. Santana received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College, and her MA and PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She is the recipient of a CantoMundo Fellowship and a Djerassi Resident Artist Program Fellowship. Mary Szybist selected Santana’s poetry for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology. Currently, Santana teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University.