BROOKS RODDAN
Brooks Roddan lives and works in San Francisco where he writes every day, enjoys making small-scale paintings and collage, and operates IF SF Publishing, leaving town as often as possible to his cabin in upstate Wyoming where nothing is expected of him. He’s published a 12 books and chapbooks of poetry, including The Second Dream (Momentum Press 1986), The Light of the Light (Blue Earth Press, 1987), and The Frog Club (Readymade Books, 1992, and The Story My iPhone Told Me (2020). Roddan’s written fiction under the pen name Thomas Fuller, his first novel Monsieur Ambivalence (2013) winning an Award in the Fiction Category at the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, following that novel with The Classical World, A Novel of Ideas (2018). His first book of non-fiction Mare Island was published in 2016 under his legal name, selling out its original printing. Golf Is Ruining My Life, a semi-autobiographical series of meditations on his love-hate relationship with the game, is Roddan’s second foray into the nether-regions of non-fiction.
Interviews with the author
Brooks Roddan reads short passage from Mare Island
Brooks Roddan author of Mare Island in conversation with Jay Harris the former Publisher of Mother Jones