Dalkey author Ashton Politanoff (You'll Like it Here) and Deep Vellum author Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up) will be in conversation at Mrs. Dalloway’s in Berkeley, CA.

Ashton Politanoff’s writing has appeared frequently in NOON, as well as New York Tyrant, Conjunctions, Egress, and other print and digital journals. Several of his stories have been anthologized, and he is a full-time English Instructor at Cypress College.

Rita Bullwinkel's writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at large for McSweeney's. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.