From the Heights to the Mission: Writing Home
Tue, Apr 21
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore
Join for a reading where Norman Antonia Zelaya, of the Mission District, reads from Gente, Folks and JP Infante, visiting from Washington Heights, New York City reads from On the Tip of Your Mother's Tongue.
Time & Location
Apr 21, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
JP Infante is the author of On the Tip of Your Mother’s Tongueand Aquí y Allá: un retrato de la comunidad Dominicana en Washington Heights. He is the winner of PEN’s Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and Thirty West’s Chapbook contest. His writing has appeared in Kweli, The Poetry Project, Rigorous, A Gathering of the Tribes, and elsewhere. He has been awarded scholarships and fellowships from the NY State Writers Institute, PEN America and The Center for Fiction. He holds an MFA from The New School.
Norman Antonio Zelaya is from San Francisco, CA. His writing is inspired by his Nicoya heritage and his lived experience as a SF native and Mission District homeboy. He’s the author of two collections of short fiction, Orlando & Other Stories (Pochino Press, 2017), and most recently, Gente, Folks (Black Freighter Press, 2022). His work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Apogee Journal, NY Tyrant,…