Lit Crawl San Francisco

Amber Butts is currently at work on an Afro-futurist novel that requires elders be written into our futures. Her work asks big and small questions about how we move towards actualizing spaces that center tenderness, nuance and joy while living in a world reliant on our terror.

Olga Zilberbourg is the author of Like Water And Other Stories (WTAW Press, 2019), and of three Russian-language story collections, the most recent published in Moscow in 2016.

Anita Felicelli is the author of Chimerica (WTAW Press, 2019) and Love Songs for a Lost Continent (Still House Press), winner of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award.  Her essays and criticism have appeared in the SF Chronicle, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, Slate, Catapult... Read More →

Sarah Stone is the author of Hungry Ghost Theater (WTAW Press, 2018), finalist for the Northern California Book Award, and The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday).

Meghan Flaherty is the author of Tango Lessons: A Memoir (HMH), and has published in O Magazine, Psychology Today, The Iowa Review, the New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.

Theodore Gioia is critic living in San Francisco. Hailing from a line of writers, he has the dubious distinction of being the second best-known writer named Ted Gioia in his family. He has held a range of jobs from host at the Olive Garden to the editorial staff at McSweeney’s... Read More →

Louise Marburg is the author of the award-winning collection of stories, The Truth About Me (WTAW Press, 2017).

Ron Nyren is the author of the novel The Book of Lost Light, winner of the Big Moose Award and forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press.

Peg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest (Dzanc 2019). She is Editor in Chief and Director of WTAW Press.