Author Reading with Special Guests

Kerri Lyn Kumasaka is the author of the book A Poet’s Story, originally published in 2007, now reissued in 2026 as This Poem of a Life. The poet, writer and artist lives in Boulder, Montana.

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Carla Rachel Sameth, former Altadena Co-Poet Laureate and Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets, has published three books: a full-length poetry collection, Secondary Inspections, the chapbook, What Is Left and the memoir One Day on the Gold Line.

Manuela Gomez Rhine is the author of the novels ThePalm Tree Chronicles and The Wild Chihuahuas of Mexico. She lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.