Margaret Elysia Garcia at Two Idiots Peddling Poetry

Join Margaret Elysia Garcia as she features for Two Idiots Peddling Poetry at The Ugly Mug in Orange, CA with a reading from her new collection Chicana Noir and Other Stories!

The Ugly Mug (open for the event)

261 N Glassell St, Orange, CA 92866 (NOT in Burbank!)

$5 cover fee, cash only

No outside food or drinks.

Ages 12+ unless otherwise specified

About the Author:

Macondo fellow Margaret Elysia Garcia is the author of the poetry collection the daughterland (El Martillo Press, 2023), the short story collections Chicana Noir and Other Stories (El Martillo Press, 2026) and Graft (Tolsun Books, 2022), and the poetry chapbooks Your House is on Fire (Daxson Publishing, 2026), Iconistas!, and Burn Scars, (Lit Kit Collective, 2025, 2022). She’s the co-editor of the Golden Poppy Award finalist in non-fiction anthology Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country (AK Press, 2025). She’s the winner of the James L. Doti Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University.

Two Idiots Peddling Poetry:

Two Idiots Peddling Poetry is a weekly poetry reading held at the Ugly Mug Café in Orange, California on Wednesdays at 8 pm. There is a cover charge (cash only, see event pages for more info). The reading generally has one or two featured poets reading for 20-30 minutes each, plus an open mic.

El Martillo Press:

Founded by Matt Sedillo and David A. Romero, El Martillo Press publishes writers whose pens strike the page with clear intent; words with purpose to pry apart assumed norms and to hammer away at injustice. El Martillo Press proactively publishes writers looking to pound the pavement to promote their work and the work of their fellow pressmates. El Martillo is the builder of bridges and the destroyer of walls.