"John O'Kane, with his radiant sentences, has captured Venice's sun-drenched paradise, artists seeking new forms, surfers, lost ones who came looking for community. His sense of the environment, the creative ones & those close to madness is uncanny. An empathetic, humane sextet about the ghosts of Venice splendidly told." Harry E. Northup Poet, Love Poem to MPTF; actor, Taxi Driver BIO Essays, op-eds, stories, and poems written by John O'Kane have appeared in the Boston Globe, Huff Post, CounterPunch, the Goose River Anthology, and other platforms and publications. Books he's authored include Venice, CA: A City State of Mind, A People's Manifesto, and The Unmaking of the President, 2020. In addition, Mr. O'Kane is the founding publisher of AMASS magazine and teaches at the University of California, Irvine.