Red Hen Press + Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock present

Readings by Marcos Villatoro + Tim Green

March 24, 2010

7:00pm

Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock

2225 Colorado Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90041

About the Authors:

Marcos Villatoro

Marcos Villatoro was listed in The Los Angeles Times Book Review for  his work Home Killings
which was a Best Book of 2001. It won the Silver Medal from Foreword Magazine and First Prize in
the Latino Literary Hall of Fame. His other novels include Minos, A Venom Beneath the Skin and Romilia
Chacón. Random House publishes the Romilia Chacón crime fiction novels in mass-market paperback
(under Dell). Germany, Japan, Russia and Brazil have translated and published all the Romilia books.His
autobiographical novel The Holy Spirit of My Uncle’s Cojones was an Independent Publishers Book
Award Finalist and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. This year Marcos won a Golden Mike Award
and an Emmy Award for Best Non-News Writer for his work on KCET Television’s “SoCal
Connection” a prime time news show focusing on events in Southern California.

Tim Green

Tim Green  became the editor of RATTLE, a literary journal based in Los Angeles in 2006.
Circulation has since swelled, making it one of the largest literary journals in the country. RATTLE
won its first Pushcart Prize in 2007, and also had a poem reprinted in that year’s Best American Poetry
anthology. His novel, American Fractal is his first book-length collection of poetry. His poems and
short stories have appeared in dozens of publications, online and in print, including The Connecticut
Review, Florida Review, Fugue, Gargoyle, Los Angeles Review, Mid-American Review, Nimrod International
Journal, Paterson Literary Review, and Runes. Green has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the
Rhysling Award.