Lit Crawl San Francisco 2024

Julia Chiapella’s poetry has appeared in Edison Literary Review,I-70 Review, The MacGuffin, Midwest Quarterly, The Opiate Magazine, Pirene’s Fountain, The Round, The Wax Paper, and West Branch among others. She co-founded Santa Cruz Writes and is the retired director of the Young... Read More →

Farnaz Fatemi is Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate, an Academy of American Poetry Laureate Fellow, and author of the poetry collection, Sister Tongue زبان خواهر. Her poems and essays appear in Alaska Quarterly, Catamaran Literary Reader, Kenyon Review, No Tokens Journal, Poets.org... Read More →

Julie Murphy’s poems appear in River Heron, Chicago Quarterly Review, Atlanta Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, Louisville Review and SWWIM, among other journals. A member of Community of Writers, she taught poetry at Salinas Valley State Prison. With the Hive Poetry Collective... Read More →

Dion O'Reilly is the author of Sadness of the Apex Predator, Ghost Dogs; and Limerence, a finalist for the John Pierce Chapbook Competition Her work appears in The Sun, Rattle, Cincinnati Review, Slowdown, and Alaska Quarterly. A reader for Catamaran, she splits her time between Soquel... Read More →

Roxi Power's book, The Songs That Objects Would Sing was published Fall 2023. She podcasts with The Hive Poetry Collective. She founded the trans-genre anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts, at UC Santa Cruz where she teaches. Roxi performs Live Film Narration, or “Neo-Benshi" nationally... Read More →