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Reading Series: Four Authors, One Night
Date: Friday, November 6
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Sausalito Public Library (420 Litho Street)
The Sausalito Public Library and BAIT present a night of reading at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, November 6. The event will feature readings by:- D. A. Powell: Powell is the author of five collections, including Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include two Northern California Book Awards, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize, the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the John Updike Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. A former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, Powell has taught at Stanford, Columbia, University of Texas at Austin, University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco. Powell’s most recent book is Repast: Tea, Lunch & Cocktails, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt. Three chapbooks have appeared in the last 6 years: Atlas T, published by Rescue Press in Spring of 2020, Low Hanging Fruit, printed by Foundlings Press in 2022, and Tricks, published by Cutbank Books in 2026.
- T.S. Leonard: Leonard is a poet, performer, and educator whose work has been featured in Poetry, Foglifter, and Fourteen Poems and in collaborative projects at the Portland Art Museum and Pacific Design Center. Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, winner of the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, is his debut collection. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.
- Preeti Vangani: Vangani is a poet & writer from Bombay based in San Francisco. She is the author of the poetry collections, Mother Tongue Apologize (2019) and Fifty Mothers, (River River Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, Gulf Coast, among other places. She has received artist grants from San Francisco Arts Commission, YBCA, and is a current Steinbeck fellow. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco and teaches in the program.
- Linda Michel-Cassidy: Michel-Cassidy’s story collection, When We Were Hardcore (EastOver Press) was named to the longlist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award for debut story collection, 2026. Her writing has appeared in December, Rattle, New Orleans Review, Tahoma Review, and elsewhere. She is senior reviews and hybrid/collaboration editor at Tupelo Quarterly. Michel-Cassidy lives on a houseboat and is a novice open-water swimmer.
Tanya Zilinskas will host the evening and moderate Q&A with the featured writers after their readings. Sausalito Books by the Bay will be selling titles by our authors, and book signings will follow the reading and Q&A. Attendance is free.
Registration is highly recommended to help Library staff prepare for the event. Please register at the bottom of this page to guarantee a spot. The Library tends to get chilly at night so dress accordingly!
**** A note about parking: Due to the expansion of Parking Permit Area C, parking on Litho Street, Bee Street, and most other residential streets in the vicinity of City Hall is prohibited after 6:00 p.m. When attending this library program, please park in the public lot behind City Hall, which is accessible via Bee Street. If the City Hall lot is full, street parking is allowed without a permit on Caledonia Street, Bridgeway, and the side streets east of Caledonia Street. There is also a public parking lot at Dunphy Park.