September's Write to Read Open Mic & Citric Acid Lit Journal Collab

Write to Read is an Orange County, California, reading series featuring the very best poets and writers from Southern California and beyond.

Join us Wednesday, September 27th, from 7-9pm, at Chapman Crafted Beer in Old Towne Orange for our monthly reading series.

This month we will be partnering with Citric Acid Literary Journal.

• 7 to 7:45pm-- readings by current Citric Acid authors including poets Sandra E. De Anda and Anna Leahy.
• 8 to 8:30pm-- reading by novelist Mary Camarillo
• 8:30 to 9pm-- a panel discussion on literary citizenship in Orange County and beyond.

If you have any questions, email Andrew Beckner at abeckner@chapman.edu

Author bios are below. We hope to see you there!

Sandra E. De Anda is an award winning Santa Ana-based writer and
immigrant rights advocate. She received her BA in English from Reed
College in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry has been featured in the LA
Times, Voice of OC, Sin Cesar, The Ear, Makara Arts, Khabar Keslan,
and the late OC Weekly, where she co-founded a weekly column titled,
"Deport This" which highlighted the stories of local immigrants and
refugees in resistance.

Anna Leahy’s latest books are the poetry collections Gloss, What Happened Was:, and Aperture and the nonfiction book Tumor. Her work has appeared at Aeon, Atlanta Review, The Atlantic, Bennington Review, BuzzFeed, Poetry, Scientific American, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and essays have won top awards from Mississippi Review, Los Angeles Review, Ninth Letter, and Dogwood. She edits the international Tab Journal and has been a fellow at MacDowell and the American Library in Paris. Leahy directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University. See more at https://amleahy.com.

Mary Camarillo is the author of the award-winning novel "The Lockhart Women." Her second novel "Those People Behind Us" will be published in October of 2023. “Those People Behind Us" is set in the summer of 2017 in the fictional city of Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divided by politics, protests, and escalating housing prices. These divisions change the lives of five neighbors as they search for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.
Mary’s poems and short fiction have appeared in publications such as TAB Journal, 166 Palms, Sonora Review, and The Ear. Mary lives in Huntington Beach, California with her husband, who plays ukulele, and their terrorist cat Riley, who makes frequent appearances on Instagram.