Ellery Akers & Roy Mash

Point Reyes Books presents Marin poets Ellery Akers and Roy Mash as they celebrate the publication of their latest poetry collections. Ellery will read from Practicing the Truth which won the 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Roy will read from Buyer's Remorse, praised by Kirkus Reviews as "winsome and raucous."

About Ellery Akers: Point Reyes resident Ellery Akers is the author of two poetry collections: Practicing the Truth, which won the 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Alicia Ostriker ; and Knocking on the Earth, which was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Jose Mercury News. She is also the author of a children’s novel, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse. Akers has won eleven national awards, including the Poetry International Prize, the John Masefield Award, the Paumanok Poetry Award, and Sierra magazine’s Nature Writing Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and on American Life in Poetry. She is a writer, artist, and naturalist living on the Northern California coast and teaches private poetry workshops.

About Roy Mash: San Rafael resident Roy Mash is a long-time board member of Marin Poetry Center, and former bicycle messenger. He holds degrees in English, Philosophy, and Computer Science, though he currently doodles his time away staring out of café windows, dabbing up the seeds that have fallen from an everything bagel, and mentally thumbing over his poems that have appeared widely in journals such as AGNI, Barrow Street, Nimrod, Poetry East, and River Styx. He is the recipient of the Atlanta Review International Publication Award. His first full length book, Buyer’s Remorse (Cherry Grove Collections), debuted in 2014.