Lit Crawl San Francisco

Daphne Gottlieb is a San Francisco-based performance poet.She is the winner of the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, and a five-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award... Read More →

Hollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems, winner of the 2016 annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute and Berkeley City College, hosts Saturday Night Special, An East Bay Open Mic and produces... Read More →

Julia Jahn, a lefty from Nebraska, has been keeping an eye on the Mission from the high perch of her apartment for quite some time. Sometimes she writes about what she sees. Sometimes she writes about her outfits. Sometimes she has no idea what to write. She’s excited easily, but... Read More →

Alexandra Kostoulas is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute. She has performed her work on stage at Litcrawl, Bay Area Book Festival, Santa Barbara Book & Author festival, Los Angeles Festival of Books, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley, and... Read More →

Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels including The Last Weekend, I Am Providence, and the forthcoming Hexen Sabbath. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, and he is also an award-winning anthologist, most recently with Mixed Up, a hybrid cocktail... Read More →

Marguerite Munoz writes on the border of Berkeley and Oakland. She is the founder and producer of Voz Sin Tinta at Alley Cat Books under the sponsorship of Alejandro Murguia. Her work has been featured at Get Lit, Liminal, Poems Under the Dome, Cante Jondo, Literary Speakeasy, Cipacti... Read More →

Maurisa Thompson was born and raised in San Francisco, and is a proud alum of June Jordan's Poetry for the People. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Pedestal Cosmonauts Avenue, Poems for Our Children and En Vuelo: In Celebration of el Tecolote, and The Haight-Ashbury... Read More →