Koret Auditorium at the San Francisco Public Library [
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10:00am PDT
Kidquake: Early Elementary School Program
Participants 
President, Transformative Education Institute
F. ISABEL CAMPOY is the author of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized...
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Author, Little, Brown and Company
Born in Argentina, Florencia Milito spent her early childhood in Venezuela and has lived in the U.S. since she was nine. She is a bilingual poet, essayist, and translator whose work has appeared (or is forthcoming) in ZYZZYVA; Indiana Review; Catamaran; Entremares; Digging through...
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Gwen Minor (Read Aloud Plays: The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, Scholastic), has been profiled on NPR and her podcasts have a world-wide following. A teacher and writer specializing in Shakespeare and ancient epic, she's also been a literary events coordinator, a freelance columnist...
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco and a tendency to spill things. As a longtime children's bookseller she has read her fair share of stories, and she is always hungry for more. Her favorite animal is an octopus, or else an elephant.
10:00am PDT
Kidquake: Upper Elementary Program
Participants 
Gendell Hing-Hernandez has worked as an actor for Berkeley Rep, Word for Word, TheatreWorks, Camposanto, San Jose Rep, Center Rep, New Pickle Circus, and many others. Productions include Around The World In 80 Days, The Cook, Blood Wedding, Oil!, Food Stories, House on Mango Street...
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Author, Executive Director, Society of Young Inklings
Build Your Own Imagined World Map- Naomi KinsmanWriters will develop the landscape, lifestyle, culture, and government of a fictional world, in order to create possibilities for character, conflict, and plot. You'll finish the workshop with a map, a character brainstorm and a couple...
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Kate Schatz is a feminist writer, educator, editor + activist. She's the author of the the NYT-bestseller Rad American Women A-Z, its sequel Rad Women Worldwide, and the 33 1/3 book Rid of Me: A Story.
Susan Terence, San Francisco Area Coordinator and poet teacher for Calif. Poets in the Schools, is a writer and performer who has been published in: SF Bay Guardian, SF Chronicle, S. Poetry Review, Nebraska Rev., Americas Rev., St. Petersburg Rev., District 11, and has been a winner...
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Cartoonist. Pinko. Reality TV has-been. *cough* bestselling author.
3:00pm PDT
Get Your Book Published: First-Time Authors Reveal All
Participants 
Prisoner in the kitchen
Born and raised in Seattle, William Bonham spent the first fifteen years of his working life as a professional cook. One of those years was as a cook, on staff, at Montana State Prison. At the age of thirty-one, while working in a restaurant in San Francisco, he almost literally stumbled...
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Author of YA Fiction
Tim Floreen writes young adult fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel, Willful Machines, one of the best teen books of 2015, and in a starred review, Kirkus called it "gothic, gadgety, and gay," which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel...
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Carmen Lau is the author of The Girl Wakes (Alternating Current, 2016). Her stories have appeared in Wigleaf, Fairy Tale Review, The Collagist, Catapult and other journals. Carmen graduated from UC Davis with an MA in Creative Writing in 2009 and has resided around the world since...
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Irvin Lin, the man behind the nationally recognized blog "Eat the Love" is a graphic designer and art director turned IACP award-winning photographer, food writer, recipe developer, baker, public speaker and occasional social media consultant. His work has been featured in Best Food...
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Press, AfterEllen
Author of The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!). Talk to me about lesbians, sex, haikus, or cats. Or even books. WHY NOT.
5:00pm PDT
Hot Off the Press: Latest from the Publishing Pros
Participants 
Rolph Blythe began his career as a bookseller, and then worked in marketing for several publishers. Most recently he was publisher of Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press.
Claudia Riemer Boutote is SVP, Publisher of HarperElixir, a new line of conscious living books from HarperOne, the west coast imprint of HarperCollins.Prior to joining HarperOne, she held management positions at a variety of major New York publishing companies including Workman Publishing...
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President, Kimberley Cameron & Associates
Looking for new voices and hopefully enhancing the publishing quest!
Calvin Crosby has been named the new executive director of the
Northern California Independent Booksellers Association. In addition to a 10-year stint on the NCIBA board that included a term as president, Crosby's background includes more than two decades working at both Book Passage and Books Inc. in all aspects of bookstore operations. He has also been committed to bookseller education, having...
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Author Marketing Specialist, Goodreads
Book Marketing Specialist Cynthia Shannon helps authors and publishers effectively integrate Goodreads into their marketing campaigns. Before joining Goodreads in 2013, Cynthia worked as a book publicist at Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Wiley/Jossey-Bass, and Other Press. She graduated...
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