Authors Luke Goebel, Rebecca Chace, and Brendan Constantine offer brief readings, and discuss their latest work in conversation with moderator Kate Gale. Audience questions are welcome, and a book signing follows the panel!

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‍Kill Dick by Luke Goebel is a neo-noir thriller set in an opioid-filled Los Angeles. It unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction.‍‍

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‍Talking To The Wolf by Rebecca Chace is a lyrical exploration of female friendship, friend breakups, and reconciliations across decades. Set during a surprise snowstorm in New York City, a failed rockstar, an awarded scientist, a work-obsessed misanthrope, and a ghost, whose untimely death ruptured the once-solid quartet, steel themselves for their thirty-fifth high school reunion dinner.‍

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The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine is a simple yet profound framework of odes, lists, memoirs, and classroom assignments, Constantine asks us to think critically about how we define and understand each other, urging us to look beyond simplistic binaries and engage with the deeper nuances of meaning.

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Luke B. Goebel is an American novelist and screenwriter whose work moves between fiction, memoir, and cinema with a restless, intimate energy. He is the author of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, winner of the Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction, and the forthcoming novel Kill Dick (Red Hen Press). His screenwriting credits include Causeway and Eileen, and his writing has appreciated in numerous literary journals. Goebel’s work is known for its formal daring and emotional precision, often exploring grief, identity, and the porous boundary between lived experience and art.

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Rebecca Chace’s most recent novel, Talking to the Wolf, will be published by Red Hen Press in May 2026. Her other books include Leaving Rock Harbor, Capture the Flag, and Chautauqua Summer. She is a contributor to The New York Times and has written for The Yale Review, New England Review, LA Review of Books, Lit Hub, Bookpost, and many other publications. Fellowships include Civitella Ranieri, MacDowell, Yaddo, Dora Maar House, American Academy in Rome (visiting artist), and others. She is a Faculty Associate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. Follow her Substack, Hey Friend, You Broke My Heart.

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Brendan Constantine is a poet based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in many standards, including Poetry, The Nation, Best American Poetry, Tin House, Ploughshares, and Poem-a-Day. A popular performer, Brendan has presented his work to audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe, also appearing on NPR’s All Things Considered, TED ED, numerous podcasts, and YouTube. He currently teaches at the Windward School, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Midnight Mission. Since 2017 he has been developing workshops for writer living with Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injuries. His fifth collection of poems, The Opposites Game, is forthcoming 2026 from Red Hen Press.

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