Van Gogh's Ear, Volume 7

To celebrate the seventh and final volume of international prose and poetry anthology Van Gogh's Ear, five past and present LA-based contributors to Van Gogh’s Ear will be reading: Felice Picano, the editor of this volume, as well as a best-selling novelist, poet, and publisher; John Gilmore, former child actor, filmmaker, poet, and novelist; Trebor Healey, award-winning novelist and poet; Steven Reigns, educator , artist, editor, and poet; and Daniel Jaffe, prize-winning author, translator, and educator.

Felice Picano is a celebrated poet, novelist and editor who established one of the very first gay publishing houses. He wrote best-sellers including Like People in History: A Gay American Epic, his memoir Men Who Loved Me and his most recent short story collection, Tales From a Distant Planet. Picano is also editor of the final installment of anthology series Van Gogh’s Ear. (Volumes 2, 5, 7)

John Gilmore is a former child actor turned poet, novelist, filmmaker and noir cult figure in Los Angeles. After writing a series of action pulp novels, Gilmore went on to become a true-crime writer and author of several Hollywood memoirs. His work includes The Garbage People, Inside Marilyn Monroe and the upcoming On the Run with Bonnie & Clyde. (Volumes 3, 4, 5)

Trebor Healey is an author and poet who has published numerous poems in various reviews, journals, anthologies and zines. Recipient of the 2004 Ferro-Grumley and Violet Quill award for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, Healey is also author to five poetry chapbooks and a collection of erotic poems, Sweet Son of Pan. (Volumes 5, 7)

Steven Reigns is a Los Angeles-based educator, artist and poet whose writings are an expedition into feelings and senses. He has published four chapbooks, edited an anthology by GLB seniors called My Life is Poetry and taught writing workshops around the country to gay youth and people living with HIV. Reigns just released his newest collection Inheritance this year. (Volume 7)

Daniel Jaffe is a prize-winning fiction writer and author of The Limits of Pleasure. Translator of the Russian-Israeli best-selling novel Here Comes the Messiah! by Dina Rubina, Jaffe’s short fiction, personal essays and literary translations have also appeared in dozens of anthologies and literary journals in the U.S. and abroad. He now teaches creative writing workshops at UCLA. (Volume 7)