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Join us for a reading from Afro-surrealist writer Elwin Cotman’s new poetry collection The Wizard's Homecoming, including a discussion with the author.

About the Book:
The Wizard's Homecoming is a sword-and-sorcery tale of heroes and villains on a cosmic and human scale. paired with ten years of poetry, this is the next step in Cotman's hybrid bibliography.

About the Author:
Elwin Cotman is a storyteller from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of three collections of speculative short stories, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues, and Dance on Saturday, which was a nominee for the 2020 Philip K. Dick Award. He is also the author of The Wizard's Homecoming (2023, Nomadic Press) and the upcoming collection Weird Black Girls (2024, Scribner). Cotman earned his BA from the University of Pittsburgh and his MFA from Mills College.