Brooks Roddan

Brooks Roddan lives and works in San Francisco where he writes every day, enjoys making small-scale paintings and collage, and operates IF SF Publishing, leaving town as often as possible to his cabin in upstate Wyoming where nothing is expected of him. He’s published a 12 books and chapbooks of poetry, including The Second Dream (Momentum Press 1986), The Light of the Light (Blue Earth Press, 1987), and The Frog Club (Readymade Books, 1992, and The Story My iPhone Told Me (2020).  Roddan’s written fiction under the pen name Thomas Fuller, his first novel Monsieur Ambivalence (2013) winning an Award in the Fiction Category at the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, following that novel with The Classical World, A Novel of Ideas (2018). His first book of non-fiction Mare Island was published in 2016 under his legal name, selling out its original printing. Golf Is Ruining My Life, a semi-autobiographical series of meditations on his love-hate relationship with the game, is Roddan’s second foray into the nether-regions of non-fiction.

IF SF Publishing

Founded in 1999 in Los Angeles as If Publications and is now located in San Francisco. IF SF is a not-for-profit press that has published books in a range of genres, including memoirs, poetry, and photography. IF SF books are now in the archives of both private and institutional collectors in the U.S. and abroad.

The IF SF imprint, praised in the past for publishing the work of 'voices that deserve to be heard in books of visually arresting formats' is known for taking a collaborative approach to each project, inviting the artist to take part in the creation of the book. Each IF SF book is published in the medium best suited to the material.

While continuing to focus on the literary and graphic arts, IF SF remains open to the projects of interest in other categories.

 IF SF books are distributed to the trade by Small Press Distribution find out more at www.spdbooks.org