Up-and-Coming Author Mathieu Cailler to Appear at Beyond Baroque

Award-winning author Mathieu Cailler will read from his works at Beyond Baroque in Venice, California on May 28^th, 2016. His most recent book is LOSS ANGELES, a collection of short stories that are by turns fragile, tender, and always memorable as they explore the beauty of quotidian existence. Cailler’s stories are rife with plot, introspection, and discoveries. To read them is to penetrate the soul of humanity—flaws and all.

“In Loss Angeles Mathieu Cailler looks upon humanity’s foibles with a tender mercy and conveys what he sees in sentences that sing with simplicity and clarity. Every story in the collection reveals a devastating beauty that, page after page, held me mesmerized. Cailler is indeed a writer to be admired and read for years to come.”—Sophfronia Scott, author of All I Need to Get By

Cailler’s work has been widely published in national and international literary journals, including Ardor, Epiphany, and The Saturday Evening Post. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, he has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train New Writers Awa, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize and the Carve Magazine Raymond Carver short Story Award. He is the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for Poetry. His chapbook, Clotheslines, was recently published by Red Bird Press. His website is https://mathieucailler.com.

About Beyond Baroque

Beyond Baroque is one of the United States’ leading independent Literary | Arts Centers and public spaces dedicated to expanding the public’s knowledge of poetry, literature and art through cultural events and community interaction. Founded in 1968, Beyond Baroque is based out of the original City Hall building in Venice, California. The Center offers a diverse variety of literary and arts programming including readings, workshops, new music and education. The building also houses a bookstore with the largest collection of new poetry books and CDs for sale and an archive that houses over 40,000 books, including small press and limited-edition publications, chronicling the history of poetry movements in Los Angeles and beyond. Through the years, Beyond Baroque has played muse to the Venice Beats, the burgeoning Punk movement and visiting scholars. Many of the city’s leading literary talents, including Dennis Cooper, Wanda Coleman, Tom Waits, Exene Cervenkova and Amy Gerstler, are alumni of the Wednesday night poetry workshop. Many of the worlds most well known independent artists, including Patti Smith, Michael McClure, Dana Gioia, and Viggo Mortensen have performed on its stage.

Beyond Baroque’s mission is to advance the public awareness of and involvement in the literary arts; to provide a challenging program of events which promotes new work and diversity; to foster a place in the community for the exchange of challenging ideas and the nurturing of new work; to support writers through readings, workshops, books sales, publication, access to archived material and performance space; to encourage collaboration and cross-fertilization between writers and artists in multiple disciplines with the goal of producing mixed media art; to use the literary arts as a foundation for increasing education and literacy in our community. To learn more, please visit their website: www.beyondbaroque.org

About Mathieu Cailler

Mathieu Cailler is a writer of poetry and prose. His work has been widely published in national and international literary journals, including Ardor, Epiphany, and The Saturday Evening Post. A graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts, he has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train New Writers Award, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize, and the Carve Magazine Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He is the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for poetry. His chapbook, Clotheslines, was recently published by Red Bird Press. He lives in Los Angeles. His website is www.mathieucailler.com