Join us for an evening of poetry and libations! Four poets will share new work followed by a roundtable conversation and Q&A.
Ruby Kim Kralowec celebrates the launch of her debut full-length collection, The Saplings Think of Us as Young, published in May 2023 by Kelson Books.
Ruby Mia Malhotra’s second full-length collection, Mothersalt, will be published in 2025 by Alice James Books.
Cintia Santana’s debut collection, The Disordered Alphabet, is newly out from Four Way Books.
Ruby Heidi Van Horn will read from her collaboration with David Makaaha Kwon, “House of David.”
Books will be available for purchase at the event from our friends, Dog-Eared Books.
Wine has been generously provided by Kitson Wines.
About the Poets:
Kimberly Kralowec
Kimberly Kralowec is the author of The Saplings Think of Us as Young (Kelson Books, 2023) and a chapbook of love poems, We retreat into the stillness of our own bones (Tolsun Books, 2022). She was a finalist in the 2023 North American Review James Hearst Poetry Contest, the 2022 American Literary Review Poetry Contest, and the 2021 River Styx International Poetry Contest. Her poetry appears in The Shore, wildness, Nixes Mate Review, The Inflectionist Review, and elsewhere. A lawyer by profession, she holds an English degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California, and lives in San Francisco. Find her at anapoetics.com.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of Mothersalt (Alice James Books, forthcoming 2025) and Isako Isako, a California Book Award finalist and winner of the Alice James Award, the Nautilus Gold Award for Poetry, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. She is also the author of the chapbook Notes from the Birth Year, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Contest. Mia holds degrees in creative writing from Stanford University and the University of Washington, and she has received fellowships from VONA/Voices and Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the cultivation of Asian American literature. Currently she teaches poetry workshops at Left Margin LIT and is at work on a manuscript about music and the interior life.
Cintia Santana
Cintia Santana is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She teaches fiction and poetry workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Best New Poets 2016, Best New Poets 2020, Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and other journals. Santana is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Her first poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet, was published this fall by Four Way Books. Learn more at: www.cintiasantana.com.
Heidi Van Horn
Heidi Van Horn is a poet, editor, and book designer. She is the author of Belated Poem (Drop Leaf Press, 2019) and co-creator, with David Makaaha Kwon, of “House of David,” a poetic assemblage exploring the personal and political geography of mass incarceration. Her writing and interviews have appeared in Adroit Journal, Alta Journal, the Brooklyn Rail, Elderly, and elsewhere. Heidi received her BA in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She was raised and still lives in the Bay Area, where she is a co-editor at Drop Leaf Press, a women-run poetry collective, and a founding member of The Ruby!