Greg Sarris
Obi Kaufmann
Charles Hood
Join Heyday at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California, April 23 – 24.
Find us at the festival to browse all our latest and greatest books at booth 113, including fresh off the press new releases like Becoming Story by celebrated storyteller and tribal leader Greg Sarris; the latest opus from Obi Kaufmann, The Coasts of California; and A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat, the delightful literary romp through nature’s underbelly by Jonathan Franzen’s favorite nature writer Charles Hood.
You can catch these Heyday authors at their featured panel events on the first day of the festival, Saturday, April 23rd—explore the full program lineup at latimes.com/fob.
Saturday, April 23 at 2 PM at the Ray Stark Family Theatre, SA 5
Moderator: Steve Padilla
Panelists: Obi Kaufmann, Charles Hood, David Kipen, and Victoria Kastner
Saturday, April 23 at 4:30 PM at the Salvatori Computer Science Center 102 SA 4
Moderator: William Deverell
Panelists: Greg Sarris and Matthew David Specktor
Purchase tickets to attend these author events at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books website.
Get TicketsGreg Sarris is currently serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and his first term as board chair for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive (1993), Grand Avenue (1994, reissued 2015), Watermelon Nights (1998, reissued 2021), How a Mountain Was Made (2017, published by Heyday), and Becoming Story (2022, published by Heyday). Greg lives and works in Sonoma County, California. Visit his website at greg-sarris.com.
Obi Kaufmann is the author of The California Field Atlas (2017, #1 San Francisco Chronicle Best Seller), The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Precious Natural Resource (2019), and The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas (2020), The Coasts of California (2022), and The Deserts of California (2023) all published by Heyday. When he is not backpacking, you can find the painter-poet at home in the East Bay, posting trail paintings at his handle @coyotethunder on Instagram. His speaking tour dates are available at californiafieldatlas.com, and his essays are posted at coyoteandthunder.com.
Charles Hood has studied birds and natural history from the Amazon to Tibet, and he has seen more than five thousand species of birds in the wild. A widely published poet, he has received numerous fellowships and writing awards and is the author of the Heyday collection A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat. His other Heyday titles include field guides to mammals and birds, and for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County he was the lead author and photographer for the book Wild LA.