Lit Crawl San Francisco

Oscar Villalon is managing editor of ZYZZYVA. His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in VQR, The Believer, the Los Angeles Times, NPR.org, and elsewhere. The former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives with his family in the Mission District.

Michelle Latiolais is the author of the novels She and A Proper Knowledge and the story collection Widow. She is an English professor and co-director of the Programs in Writing at the University of California at Irvine.

Ismail Muhammad is a staff writer at the Millions, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA, a board member at the National Books Critics Circle, and a Ph.D. candidate in the English department at U.C. Berkeley. His work has appeared in Slate, New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books... Read More →

Jim Ruland is the author of the award-winning novel Forest of Fortune and the short story collection Big Lonesome. He is the co-author of My Damage with Keith Morris, founding member of Black Flag, Circle Jerks and OFF!, and Giving the Finger with Scott Campbell, Jr. of D... Read More →

Kristen Tracy's poems have been published in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, and The Threepenny Review, among other magazines. Her book Half-Hazard is the Winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation and will be published by Graywolf in November.