Litquake

Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s newest novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, is an American love story with Cold War complications, and the New York Times says it "triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances." She’s won a Yaddo Fellowship, the Saturday... Read More →

Ali Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. He is the author of the memoir Children of Dust, the short story collection Falsipedies & Fibsiennes, and the novel Native Believer. Eteraz’s work has appeared the Chicago Quarterly Review, storySouth, Crossborder, NPR... Read More →

Yang Huang grew up in mainland China. Her debut novel Living Treasures won the Nautilus Book Awards silver medal, Next Generation Indie Book Awards gold medal, and Living Now Book Awards bronze medal. She lives in the East Bay and works for UC Berkeley.

Author and editor, Lisa McGuinness has written several books including the novel Catarina's Ring, Caffeinated Ideas Journal, and Meaningful Bouquets, as well a gaggle of children's books including the Dictionary of Extraordinary Ordinary Animals and New York Times bestseller, Bee... Read More →

Nayomi Munaweera's debut novel, "Island of a Thousand Mirrors," won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was a Target Book Club selection. Munaweera's second novel, "What Lies Between Us," won the Godage Prize for Best English Novel.

Kate Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer, activist, journalist, and clerical worker. Her debut novel, Murder Under the Bridge: a Palestine mystery, came out in November 2016. She spent eighteen months as a peace worker in Palestine and spent six weeks in Israeli immigration... Read More →