Come celebrate the release of Bay Area writer Elwin Cotman's new poetry collection, The Wizard's Homecoming. There will be readings from Cotman and comics artist Dan McCloskey, among others. Books available for sale.

Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, and Dance on Saturday. He is also author of The Wizard's Homecoming (2023, Nomadic Press) and the upcoming collection Weird Black Girls (2024, Scribner). Cotman earned his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Mills College.

Dan McCloskey is a comic artist from Kutztown, PA. At the age of 21, Dan founded the Cyberpunk Apocalypse writers’ project in Pittsburgh, which housed 45 writers from across the US and Canada and hosted hundreds of literary events. He is the author of A Film About Billy (2012, Six Gallery Press), the independent comic Free Money, and most recently Cloud Town (2022, Amulet Books). He now lives and works in Oakland, CA.