Lit Crawl San Francisco

Ann Kim is one of the founding directors of BAYS and served for many years as its President. Ann is a lawyer, community volunteer, and proud mother of two sons. Writing as A.H. Kim, Ann has a debut novel -- A GOOD FAMILY, based very loosely on her experience supporting her brother... Read More →

Laura Goodspeed is a grateful-to-be-middle-aged dyke who splits her time between San Francisco and rural Western Massachusetts, where she is taming the persistent insurrection of a pre-Civil War farmhouse and busily tending to a four-legged brood. She is a psychotherapist who has... Read More →

A lifelong writer, April was diagnosed at 35 years old with Stage 3 breast cancer that she found while breastfeeding her daughter. Four years later, while struggling to "go back to normal" and find other young women in similar circumstances, April launched WILDFIRE Magazine as a way... Read More →

Laurie Weed is a writer, an editor, and the proud mama of a budding young naturalist. She is also a breast cancer survivor and grateful member of Bay Area Young Survivors since July 2018.    

Yamini Kesavan Ranchod is an epidemiologist and an expert in chasing after a toddler while fanning her hot flashes.  Her academic research on social determinants of health has been cited in Reuters and published in prestigious public health journals such as The American Journal... Read More →