Voz Sin Tinta: Cruz Gonzales, Dallett, + Veylit

Join us May 12th at Alley Cat books for May’s Voz Sin Tinta, featuring 3 powerful and amazing writers!

Features will be followed by an open mic.List opens at 6:30 and spots go very quickly.

Event is FREE and open to the public. Bring friends, bring something to drink and/or nosh on, and get ready for an epic evening of live performances by local artists.

Michelle Cruz Gonzales, a Xicana writer, writes memoir and fiction and is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. In the 1990’s MCG played drums in and wrote lyrics for the all female hardcore punk band, Spitboy, not a riot grrrl band. Spitboy toured in the US and overseas and released several albums. MCG has been a regularcontributor to Hip Mama Magazine, published in anthologies and her story “Juan, El Pájaro” one Honorable Mention in Riversedge Literary Journal contest. Michelle live in Oakland with her husband, son, and their three Mexican dogs.

Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published online and in many print magazines. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released to good review on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she published five chapbooks, Bad Sandy, Pearl Tongue, The Water Wars, On Sunday, A Finch, and Armadillo Heart with MK Chavez.

Chloé Veylit likes the ocean, but is still afraid of the big waves. She works in San Francisco, lives in Oakland, and hails from Riverside, California. Chloé is published or forthcoming in Eleven Eleven, The Oakland Review, The North American Review, VOLT, and others. In 2015, she won second-place in a whistling contest.