Friday Night Market Series with Michael Bickford

Join us for our final Friday Night Market Series of 2025! We are excited to have local author, Michael Bickford, joining us and signing copies of his latest book "Mrs. Silva Walks to the Azores, A Story in Ten Cantos", starting at 5:30pm. This newest work is a dual-language piece and was translated by 2023 National Book Award winner Bruna Dantas Lobato.

Michael Bickford taught middle school for 30 years in San Francisco and Eureka, CA. He is a fellow of the Redwood Writing Project of Cal Poly Humboldt and a founding member of Lost Coast Writers Community, Inc., and writes poetry and fiction in Arcata, California. His work has appeared in Abandoned Mine, Fauxmoir, Seven Gill Shark Review, Ink People Center for the Arts, The North Coast Journal, Behind the Mask: 40 Humboldt Poets on the Pandemic, The /tEmz/ Review, and Neologism Poetry Review.

He wrote, produced, and performed the one act play, Ali, Cosell, My Dad, and Me for Exit Theater’s 2023 Short Play Festival.