happy endings

happy endings

Happy Endings - Bocanova


Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books: the poetry collection The Wizard’s Homecoming, and the short story collections The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, Dance on Saturday, and Weird Black Girls. His debut novel The Age of Ignorance will be published by Scribner in 2025. He was a participant in the 2012 Low Lives Performance Festival. In 2009, Cotman was a core member of the Cyberpunk Apocalypse Writers Cooperative, a DIY writers space in Pittsburgh.


Three years ago, June Martin declared herself the world's greatest writer and, since then, no one has attempted to challenge her for the title. She lives in Oakland and her short fiction has appeared in X-R-AY, Bull, New Session, and other publications. Her debut novel, LOVE/AGGRESSION, came out this year with tRaum Books.


LeeAnn Pickrell is a poet, editor, and managing editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. Her work has been published in many journals, most recently in One Art, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Loud Coffee Press, and Atlanta Review. Punctuated, a chapbook of poems inspired by punctuation, has just been released by Bottlecap Press. Her book Gathering the Pieces of Days is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2025.


Roberto F. Santiago was awarded the Alfred C. Carey Prize and has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Lambda Literary Foundation. His debut collection, Angel Park (2015), appeared on the LA Times list of 23 Essential New Books by Latino Poets and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Roberto lives in San Francisco, where he works as a social worker and Editor-in-Chief of Sancocho Press, a queer and trans AfroLatinx imprint with Kórima Press.

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5:30pm Leg 2 - Bocanova