3rd & Orange

Joshua Peralta is a writer and teacher based in Oakland, CA. His first book is 3rd & Orange (2022), a novella in poetry and prose. Peralta holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in English, and his stories, poems, and essays have been published in various places online and in print. His illustrated anthology Gross Americana will be released in 2024. Currently, he is at work on a new biographical portrait of the John Fante. Part biography, part literary & local history, and part memoir, the book tells the story of Fante's arrival in the twin harbors of Long Beach and Los Angeles at the beginning of the Great Depression. It traces a young writer's unlikely transformation from a day-laboring slacker to the professional author whose alter-ego Arturo Bandini continues to delight and frustrate readers and writers the world over.