A. D. Winans is a native San Francisco poet and writer. He is the author of over sixty books and chapbooks of poetry and prose. His work has appeared internationally in over 1,500 literary magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. He edited and published the acclaimed Second Coming Magazine/Press from 1972-89 during which which time he produced the 1980 Second Coming Poetry and Music Festival honoring the poet Josephine Miles and Blues legend John Lee Hooker. He worked from 1975-80 as an editor and poet for the SF Neighborhood Arts Program under the Federally funded CETA Program. In 2002 a song poem of his was performed at Alice Tully Hall in NYC. In 2006 he won a PEN Josephine Miles Award for excellence in literature and in 2009 PEN Oakland presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014 he was awarded a Kathy Acker Award in poetry and publishing. His archives and the archives of Second Coming are stored at Brown University. He can be contacted at ad1936@juno.com BOOKS AVAILABLE. On My Way To Becoming A Man (NYQ Press) can be purchased through Small Press Distributors (SPD), at Amazon, or through the author. Dead Lions (Punk Hostage Press), a literary memoir on his friendship with Charles Bukowski, Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline, and Alvah Bessie, can be purchased on Amazon or through the author. This Land Is Not My Land (Presa Press) can be purchased through the publisher, at Amazon or through the author. Love-Zero (Cross-Cultural Communications) can be purchased only through the author.