Randall Mann and Dinaw Mengestu

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Randall Mann and Dinaw Mengestu will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Randall Mann is the author of six collections of poetry, including Deal: New and Selected Poems, published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2023. He is also the author of a book of criticism, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry (Diode Editions, 2019). His writing has appeared in the Adroit Journal, Asian American Literary Review, Lit Hub, Poetry, and San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco.

Dinaw Mengestu is the author of three novels, all of which were named New York Times Notable Books: All Our Names, How to Read the Air, and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Jane, and Rolling Stone. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize, Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among other honors. He was also included in The New Yorker’s 20 under 40 list in 2010.