Byron Spooner

Byron Spooner is the author of Rounding Up a Bison: Stories (Andover Street Archives Press, 2021). He retired as the Literary Director of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library where, for many years, he produced literary events. He founded and edited The Readers Review, the Friends’ literary blog, where he wrote about books, music, film, and bookselling.

His writing has been published widely on various platforms and won Honorable Mention for the 2021 Dillydoun International Fiction Prize. He served on the San Francisco Poet Laureate Nominating Committee and on the One City, One Book Selection Committee of the SFPL. He also served on the Boards of Litquake, California Public Library Advocates, and the Advisory Board of the Beat Museum.

He is also an adventurer, a naturalist, and a partner in Andover Street Archives, brokering literary and cultural archives to university libraries. From 1982 to 1996, he owned and operated Books Revisited, an award-winning outlaw bookstore in San Rafael, California. Back in the seventies, he was a founder, editor, and writer of The Paper Tiger, the underground newspaper of the New Jersey Student Union. He lives with his wife, writer Judith Ayn Bernhard, in San Francisco.

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