Lit Crawl San Francisco 2024

Brad Balukjian is an entomologist and freelance journalist based in Concord. His work has been published in National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, and many others. His latest book, The Six Pack, chronicles his 12,525-mile road trip to track down famous pro wrestlers of the... Read More →

Leslie Kirk Campbell’s short story collection, The Man with Eight Pairs of Legs (Sarabande), won the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction. Author of Journey into Motherhood (Riverhead), Leslie has published features in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. She teaches at Ripe... Read More →

Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning journalist based in San Francisco. His writing has appeared in national publications such as Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Mother Jones, The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The... Read More →

Tara Dorabji is the author of the novel, Call Her Freedom, The Books Like Us Grand Prize Winner, which is available for pre-order at Simon and Schuster. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the... Read More →

Audrey Ferber's short stories and essays have appeared in the NY Times, the SF Chronicle, LILITH Magazine, INTIMA, New World Writing, First Person Singular, upcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine and elsewhere.

Born and raised in New Delhi, Anoop is the author of four novels, THE RUMMY CLUB which won the 2015 Beverly Hills Book Award, THE AWAKENING OF MEENA RAWAT, an excerpt of which was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize, NO ORDINARY THURSDAY, and MERCY and GRACE. Her essays and short... Read More →

Sabina Khan-Ibarra is a writer, poet, and teacher. She is currently working on completing her chapbook titled 'A New Vocabulary' and her novel, 'The Poppy Flower.' Her poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction have been published in various journals like and anthologies. She... Read More →

June Martin is the author of the novel LOVE/AGGRESSION, short stories in X-R-A-Y, BULL, New Session, and other lit mags, and the artist of a few scattered comic zines. She was a 2024 Lambda Literary fellow.

Jessica Martinez makes the “Get Over It, Go Out With Somebody Else” zine series, which celebrates breakups using quotes from Wayne’s World. She also writes children’s books, novels and screenplays. Her play “Schooltown Funk,” a satire on public school teaching, had a sold-out... Read More →

Louise Nayer is the award winning author of six books including two books of poems. Burned: A Memoir was an Oprah Great Read and her latest memoir is Narrow Escapes. She has been an educator for over 40 years and is a member of the San Francisco Writer's Grotto. She has given numerous... Read More →

Elizabeth Svoboda is an award-winning science writer and contributor to Scientific American, Discover, Aeon, the Boston Globe, and Greater Good. She is the author of What Makes a Hero? (Penguin Random House) and The Life Heroic (Lerner), and she is working on a book about the art... Read More →

Eleanor Vincent’s memoir Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage is forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press. It shows her gradual discovery that her husband was neurodivergent and describes how she survived the challenges of a high-conflict marriage. Her earlier memoir, Swimming... Read More →

Lenore serves as the Creative Nonfiction (CNF) Editor for the Mud Season Review and lives in Oakland, California with Zebra the Brave, Granola the Shy, and John the Mighty. Her environmental novel Pulp into Paper was published this year on Earth Day as was a new poetry collection... Read More →

Stephanie Wildman, author of five children’s books, became a Professor Emerita after serving as the John A. and Elizabeth H. Sutro Chair at Santa Clara Law. She is a grandmother, mother, spouse, friend, good listener, who can sit “criss-cross apple sauce” thanks to her yoga... Read More →