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May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Alba V Sarria

Latest Title: Night Life: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection
Night Life: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection

“Let me give you a tour…”

Tucked away in the mountains lays a small town where old gods, demons, and creatures with long forgotten names live frighteningly—and hopelessly— entangled with the humans who call it home. Quick, take the clawed hand of your guide, slip into the skins of the town’s inhabitants, and let this eerie collection of folk horror poetry ensnare you in the tales of the town, and awaken you to the coming rapture of the world.

Containing new and previously published poetry, multi-award winning poet Alba Sarria debuts a narrative folk horror collection spoken through the unusual eyes of 2nd and 1st person. This is a read for a lone dark night.

“Grotesque, haunting, and beautiful—NIGHT LIFE is Folk Horror at its finest. Sarria is a poet to watch.”
Freydís Moon, Pushcart Prize nominee and bestselling author of Heart, Haunt, Havoc.

“Reading NIGHT LIFE is like stepping into another world. Equal parts stunning and haunting, Sarria’s poetry lingers long after you’ve finished reading. If you only pick up one collection this Autumn, make sure it’s NIGHT LIFE.”
Elou Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of Crow & Cross Keys.

About Alba V Sarria

Alba Sarria is a poet and flash fictionist fascinated by all things eerie and disquieting entangled in folklore. You can usually find Alba wandering old cemeteries at night keeping flower-less graves company. Alba is the 2018 CSPA Gold Circle Free Form Poetry recipient, the 2021 CSPA Gold Circle Short Fiction CM, the 2021 William Heath Award recipient, and a 2022 Pushcart nominee.

To contact Alba, fog your bathroom mirror at 4:13 a.m. and write their name backwards in blood. All inquiries and gossip will be replied to through cryptic temperature changes and light flickering. Alba will be presenting “Night Life: A Folk Horror Poetry Collection.”

Twitter: @albasarwrites

Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

4:15 pm

Presentation End Time:

5:05 pm

Signing Time:

5:15 pm