Join us for dinner and a book discussion at Gabriella Cafe with poet Dion O’Reilly. Dion will as talk about her debut poetry collection GHOST DOGS. Reserve your spot at Gabriella Cafe on Open Table or by phoning the restaurant at 831 457-1677.

DINNER: 6PM
BOOK DISCUSSION AND READING FROM GHOST DOGS: 7PM
BOOK SIGNING: 7:30PM
BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT THE SALON

Ghost Dogs is Dion O’Reilly’s debut poetry collection and was a finalist for the Catamaran Poetry Prize

Dion O’Reilly’s Ghost Dogs is polished, powerful, and deeply rooted in the landscape of the Pacific West. The poems tell a compelling story of a life with many challenges, exalted by a sense of the marvelous. Her writing sings with astonishingly fresh imagery, and fully experienced emotion. The poems touch every sense, her metaphors are strikingly original. Ghost Dogs gives a summation of a life, with the poet finding wells of emotion in the most unlikely places—a pig about to be shot by a butcher, or a thumb she sucked until well into adulthood. There is such a fierce appetite in this book, a hunger for the depths and heights of human experience, described with abandon mixed with great refinement.

—Zack Rogow, author of Irreverent Litanies and The Number Before Infinity

Dion O'Reilly’s debut collection, Ghost Dogs, was runner-up for The Catamaran Prize and shortlisted for The Eric Hoffer Award. Her second book Sadness of the Apex Predator will be published by University of Wisconsin's Cornerstone Press in 2024. Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Narrative, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She facilitates private workshops, hosts a podcast at The Hive Poetry Collective, and is a reader for Catamaran Literary Quarterly. Most recently, her poem "The Value of Tears" was chosen by the poet Denise Duhamel as winner of the Glitter Bomb Award.