Lit Crawl San Francisco 2024

Katie published the critically acclaimed Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco. A practicing San Francisco attorney, Katie has written judicial and attorney profiles for San Francisco Attorney Magazine. Her other publications include HarperCollins, the L.A... Read More →

Jeanne Carstensen is a journalist and author. Her book "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, A Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis" comes out this spring from Simon & Schuster/One Signal.

Vanessa Chang is a writer, curator, and Director of Programs at Leonardo. She earned a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. Her writing has been published in Wired, Slate, Noema, and Los Angeles Review of Books. Her book, Atlas of the Digital Body, is coming... Read More →

Andrea Coombes writes about personal finance. She’s also writing a memoir about how becoming a single mother at 24 led her to uncover the unspoken secrets of her elegantly outlandish mother, an Austrian immigrant with a penchant for drugs, drinking and fast driving.

Nada Djordjevich is a writer and filmmaker. A graduate of Harvard and Berkeley, she taught writing at City College in San Francisco and other institutions. Her animated short, California Pie, earned awards at film festivals across the country.

Susie Hara is the author of the novel Finder of Lost Objects, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and was awarded an International Latino Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Fractured Lit Anthology II, Fast Girls, and Stirring up a Storm.

Scott James is a veteran Emmy Award winning journalist and the author of three books, including "Trial by Fire." He is the co-founder of the Castro Writers' Cooperative, a co-working space for writers in San Francisco.

Mercilee Jenkins is a produced playwright, published poet and short story writer. Her latest solo performance, It’s Later Than You was presented by 3Girls Theatre at the Phoenix Theatre in 2024. Her 10-minute play, 50 Love Letters, was performed at The Road Theatre Company’s 2021... Read More →

Lee Kravetz is the author of the national bestselling novel The Last Confessions of Sylvia P., as well as acclaimed nonfiction, Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors. He has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily... Read More →

Shana Mahaffey is the author of Sounds Like Crazy (NAL/Penguin), a San Francisco Chronicle notable book. She a co-founder of the Castro Writers' Cooperative. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including ALONE TOGETHER. Shana is a childless cat lady living in San Francisco... Read More →

Writer, surfer, and gluestick artist, Tina is the author of the epic fantasy trilogy Legacy of the Heavens. Her work has also appeared in Tor.com and Lithub.com

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning novels. She is also the founder of LitCamp and Page Street Co-Working for Writers.

Natacha wants to do it all. She was the managing editor of the beloved podcast Duolingo French and just returned to San Francisco from her first international tour of her solo show: YOU’RE GOOD FOR NOTHING… I’LL MILK THE COW MYSELF, a coming-of-age-war-epic-love-story. She is... Read More →

Melina Selverston writes fiction and journalism about people finding courage, hoping to find some more herself. She is a member of the Castro Writer’s Co-op and Page Street Writers. Before launching her writing career, Melina was an environmental advocate and political science professor... Read More →

Laura Sydell is a former NPR Tech Correspondent who now writes screenplays and fiction by regularly asking he self the same question she did covering technology, "What could possibly go wrong." She recently turned to pickleball to stop thinking this way. It hasn't worked.