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Author Bill Gainer

Bill Gainer

Bill Gainer is a storyteller, humorist, poet, and a maker of mysterious things. He earned his BA from St.Mary’s College, and his MPA from the University of San Francisco. He is the publisher of the PEN Award winning R. L. Crow Publications, and was the host of Red Alice’s Poetry Emporium (Sacramento, CA). Gainer is internationally published, and known across the country for giving legendary fun filled performances. His work is not for sissies.

Books by Bill Gainer


A Little Smoke

By Bill Gainer

Published: 2024

Reading Bill Gainer is like finding a note full of familiar sounding tales left on a barstool. The story is there - change the names, and it could be yours.
~ Pat Grizzell, Sacramento Poetry Center

Gainer opens up the body of American life to lay out the guts of our behaviors, the heart of who we are. We become vulnerable observers of our own life. What didn’t seem important to us in living our lives suddenly becomes what shaped us in a crazy world of forgotten truths and morality.
~ Chris Olander, Poetic voice of Northen California

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