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Andover Street Archives Press was founded in 2014 in San Francisco. Their first publication was ARCANA: A Festschrift for Jack Hirschman, a celebration of his eightieth birthday by twenty-seven poets and translators. In 2020, ASA Press published LIKE FINDING MONEY ON THE GROUND, poems by Mary Fernando Conrad followed in 2021 by MARRIAGES, Stories by Judith Ayn Bernhard and ROUNDING UP A BISON, Stories by Byron Spooner, the same year. More books by and about local writers are in the works.
Judith Ayn Bernhard is the author of a poetry collection, Prisoners of Culture, and a book of short stories, Marriages. She is an editor of the Andover Street Archives Press.
Byron Spooner is the author of Rounding Up a Bison: Stories (Andover Street Archives Press, 2021). He is currently the Sales & Marketing Coordinator at Arion Press in San Francisco and sorts rare books for Goodwill of San Francisco. He is retired as the Literary Director of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library after 21 years. There, in addition to selling $1.5 million in used books annually to benefit the library, he produced literary events including a highly-successful weekly poetry series featuring a diverse array of California poets, with co-producer San Francisco Poet Laureate Emeritus Jack Hirschman; three San Francisco International Poetry Festivals; and Latinx and Vietnamese poetry festivals. He founded and edited of The Readers Review, the Friends’ literary blog, where he wrote about books, music, film and bookselling. His writing has been published widely on a variety of platforms and won Honorable Mention in the 2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize competition for his story “The Acrobat Rides the Horse in Sequins” and the 2022 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest for his story “Marshmallows.” His unpublished novel, As If Nothing Happened, was shortlisted for the 2022 Bottom Drawer Prize from Black Spring Press. He was invited to the Napa Valley Writers Conference in 2017. He served on the San Francisco Poet Laureate Nominating Committee and the One City, One Book Selection Committee of the SFPL and on the Boards of Litquake, California Public Library Advocates and the Advisory Board of the Beat Museum. He is also an adventurer, a naturalist and a partner in Andover Street Archives, brokering literary and cultural archives to university libraries. From 1982 to 1996 he owned and operated Books Revisited, an award-winning outlaw bookstore in San Rafael, California. Back in the seventies he was a founder, editor and writer of The Paper Tiger, the underground newspaper of the New Jersey Student Union. He lives with his wife, writer Judith Ayn Bernhard, in San Francisco.
PUBLICATION LIST
Byron Spooner
Anderson Valley Advertiser, December 2022, ‘I Sold a Book the Other Day.
Print.
Nomination, Pushcart Prize, November 30, 2022. ‘Elvis Walks the Earth.’ Nominated by Lakeshore Review.
Bookends Review Magazine, November 30, 2022. ‘I Sold a Book the Other Day.’ Online
Lakeshore Review, Number 2. October 25, 2022. ‘Elvis Walks the Earth.’ Print.
Lakeshore Review, Number 2. October 25, 2022, Featured Prose, ‘Elvis Walks the Earth.’ Online.
Winning Writers – Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest, Honorable Mention. October 2022. ‘Marshmallows.’ Online.
Black Spring Press Group – Bottom Drawer Prize, Short-list. August 2022. ‘As If Nothing Happened.’
The Dillydoun Review - 2022 Dillydoun Flash Fiction Prize, Long-list. August 2022. ‘Recovery Room.’
Bob Dylan ISIS Magazine #218, Summer Issue. July 11, 2022. ‘You Walk into the Room.’ Print.
The River and South, June 21, 2022. ‘Beyond the Ditch at the End of the Road.’ Online.
The Yard: Crime Blog, May 21, 2022. ‘Old Ninety-Seven.’ Online.
Dillydoun Review, 2021 International Fiction Prize Anthology #1, (May 2022). ‘The Acrobat Rides the Horse in Sequins.’ Print.
Dillydoun Review, May 2022, #16. ‘Promises and Bullshit.’ Online.
Rounding Up a Bison; Stories. (Andover Street Archives Press, 2021). Print.
Dillydoun Review, October 2021, #9. ‘The Missile Crisis Hits Home.’ Online.
Litro Magazine, October 3, 2021. ‘Rounding Up a Bison.’ Online. Editor’s Pick.
LEON Literary Review, #7. ‘Love Story.’ Online.
Arthropod Literary Journal, Summer 2021, #1. ‘Subway.’ Print.
Dillydoun Review, May 2021, #4. ‘A Whole New Year.’ Online.
Passengers Journal, February 2021, Volume 2, Issue 2. ‘Self Improvement.’ Online.
The Manifest Station, December 18, 2020. ‘Waiting for Flicker, Christmas 1963.’ Online.
Poets 11 Anthology 2016. (Friends of the SF Public Library, 2016). Preface. Print.
Autobiography Magazine, No. 57, February 2016. ‘Heading West.’ Print.
Autobiography Magazine, No. 56, August 2015. ‘The Drags.’ Print.
Arcana: A Festschrift for Jack Hirschman. (Andover Street Archives Press, 2014). Edited w/Judith Ayn Bernhard. Print.
Poets 11 Anthology 2014. (Friends of the SF Public Library, 2014). Preface. Print.
Anderson Valley Advertiser, Various Articles and Reviews, 2014 – 2017. Print.
Isis #165, November-December 2012. ‘Dylan at the Greek.’ Print.
Poets 11 Anthology 2012. (Friends of the SF Public Library, 2012) Acknowledgements. Print.
A Book for Christmas. (Red Berry Editions, 2011.) Print.
Readers Review (Blog of the Friends of the SF Public Library) 2010 - 2014. Founder, editor and principle contributor. Online.
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