DINO ENRIQUE PIACENTINI at Books Inc. Berkeley

Join author Dino Enrique Piacentini at Books Inc. Berkeley for a celebration of his book Invasion of the Daffodils!

Dino will be in conversation with Shanti Sekaran.

Dino grew up in Los Angeles, lived in San Francisco for twenty-three years, and has also, at various times, set down stakes in Houston, Oaxaca, Champaign, and Prague. His stories and essays have been published in or are forthcoming in Pembroke, Gulf Coast, Confrontation, The Masters’ Review, The Atticus Review, The Globe & Mail, and The Massachusetts Review, among other places. He was a collaborating writer for the Aura Contemporary Ensemble’s Words and Music concert and served as Fiction Editor at Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. He has taught creative writing at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the University of Houston, where he also earned his MFA in 2016. Currently he lives in Denver, where he teaches creative writing at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the University of Denver’s University College. Before becoming a writer, he worked as an arts administrator at The Mexican Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Asian Art Museum, and Galería de la Raza. Invasion of the Daffodils is his debut novel.

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