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IRIS BERRY is a poet, actor, singer, and L.A. Pop culture historian who co-founded Punk Hostage Press in 2012. Her latest collection is “Gas Station Etiquette” (2022). She has appeared in many films, TV commercials, documentaries, and rock videos. As a singer-song writer in the 1980s and 90s, she performed and recorded with the Lame Flames, the Ringling Sisters, the Dickies, the Flesh Eaters, and Pink Sabbath. She served four years on the Board of Directors for the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, CA. She is a two-time recipient of a Certificate of Merit Award from the City of Los Angeles for her contributions as an L.A. writer as well as for her charity work.

Poet RICHARD MODIANO was a member of the literary community connected to the Poetry Project in New York City where he came to know Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William S. Burroughs and Ted Berrigan. His collection, “The Forbidden Lunch Box,” was published by Punk Hostage Press in 2022. In 2019, he was elected Vice President of the California State Poetry Society. From 2010 to 2019, he served as Executive Director of the Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Venice, CA, where he produced and curated hundreds of literary events. The Huffington Post named him as one of 200 people doing the most to promote American poetry.