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A reading and talk with Luca Dipierro (author of Sewer and Stage) and Gabriel Urza (author of The Silver State)

What place does one write or make art from? In the case of Luca Dipierro and Gabriel Urza, it's a place where they don't fully belong, that they inhabit as strangers, each in their own particular way.

Gabriel Urza is the author of the novels Silver State (Algonquin Books, 2025) and All That Followed (Henry Holt & Co./MacMillan 2015), as well as the novellas The Last Supper (2021) and The White Death: An Illusion (2019), which was an Oregon Book Award finalist. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Guernica, Politico, Salon, Slate, and elsewhere. Urza is a professor of creative writing in the Portland State University Master of Fine Arts program. He is also a former public defender and a licensed attorney who practices criminal defense in Nevada. His story collection, An Incomplete History of the American West, will be published in August. 

 Luca Dipierro is an animator, writer and translator born in Italy and living in the USA. His cut-out animations, filmed in stop motion with marionettes made out of paper and old book cloth, have been called “a perfect balance between creepy and charming” (The Huffington Post), and "weirdly charming and unerringly unsettling" (The Quietus). His work has been shown in theaters, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. Dipierro is the author of the collections of short prose Biscotti neri (2011), Nei paesi infimi (2024), Sewer and Stage (2026), and numerous zines. Dipierro is also founder and publisher of the micro press Garganta Press. Other Tongues, an anthology of his writings and drawings from 1996 to 2026, will come out at the end of the year.