Lit Crawl San Francisco 2024

Pragya Jain, MD is an Internal Medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area. She believes that poetry has the power to change the world by inspiring people, and instilling hope. Her book ‘Man ki Lahare’ (ripples from heart) was selected by the Literary Society of Rajasthan... Read More →

Anshu Johri authors short stories, poems, and plays in Hindi and English. She has published three poetry and short story collections in Hindi, and “Scraped”, a short story collection in English. She is a hardware engineer with a M.S in electrical engineering from San Jose State... Read More →

Swasti Johri is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. She is interested in studying the intersection between different academic conceptions of place, and the Bay Area's housing crisis. She has explored this interest through the school's interdisciplinary rhetoric program. She has... Read More →

Lalit Kumar writes a regular column in 'India Currents magazine' sharing his passion for adventure and travel. His first book 'Years Spent: Exploring Poetry in Adventure, Life and Love' was among top 3 selects in ‘Indie Spotlight’ poetry genre by BookLife/Publishers Weekly. His... Read More →

Mighty Mike McGee is a published, world traveling poet, comedian and educator from San José, California. He has performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, NPR’s Snap Judgment, and CBC Radio and Television. McGee was appointed Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County for 2018 & 2019 and serves... Read More →

Colleen Shoshana McKee, an editor and English teacher, has lived in the Bay Area for thirteen years. She’s the author of six collections of poetry, fiction, and memoirs. Her latest book, Routine Bloodwork, was a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Award from Headmistress Press. Her website... Read More →

Robert Pesich is the author of Model Organism (Five Oaks Press, 2017) and Burned Kilim (Dragonfly Press, 2001). He co-edited the anthology Cuts from the Barbershop (Tollbooth Press, 2004). He curates the Well-RED Reading Series, works as editor/publisher at Swan Scythe Press and is... Read More →