Always outstanding, sometimes controversial, but never dull regional and local authors read from and discuss their works as well as the craft of writing, and engage in dialogue with their audience in this always compelling series of talks hosted semi-annually on the campus.
Professor of English and Film Studies at California State University, Long Beach - had his biography of novelist and screenwriter John Fante and edition of John Fante Reader named among the Los Angeles Times "Best Books of the Year."
Author Steph Cha-also an attorney and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and the multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine Los Angeles Review of Books-is the writer of the popular 'Juniper Song' novels featuring a Korean-American sleuth w