We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of Bill Reinert’s Psychotropia: Under the Influence — a cosmic trip where cults, conspiracies, and cosmic cephalopods collide. Bill will be in conversation with his niece, Catherine, to discuss his new book and the ideas behind it

Bill Reinert is a retired journalist and teacher who spends his time writing satire, playing the piano, working word puzzles, and torturing his cats with a laser pointer. He also volunteers as a tutor in an ESL class for adult immigrants and studies Spanish in his spare time. He has written for, edited, and copyedited newspapers and magazines in Texas and on the West Coast. Born in Rhode Island, he graduated from the University of Rhode Island and hitchhiked across the country in his 20s, falling in love with the Great Northwest along the way. He’s spent most of his life on the Left Coast, mostly in Portland, Oregon, where he now resides

Catherine Reinert currently resides in Denver, Colorado where she works as a nurse and researcher. Prior to her transition into the medical field, Catherine received a B.A. in English literature. She has a lifelong interest in travel, reading, films, and, of course, apocalyptic sci-fi