Lit Crawl San Francisco

Working creatively in all available media, Kristen Caven is a fierce and funny writer, a charming artist, and an action-oriented innovator who guides energy with intellectual insight and emotional wisdom.  Generous Muse represents her creative and collaborative outpouring... Read More →

Joan Gelfand is author of OUTSIDE VOICES: A MEMOIR OF THE BERKELEY REVOLUTION, published in January 2024 by Post Hill Press. Author of three collections of poetry, a chapbook of short fiction and a novel set in a Silicon Valley startup, Joan is a member of the National Book Critics... Read More →

Douglas Cole has published six collections of poetry and a novella. His work has appeared in several anthologies as well as The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Galway Review, Bitter Oleander, Louisiana Literature and Slipstream. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and Best of... Read More →

Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte was born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, California. Her first published writing experiences began while she was a student at the prestigious Mills College in Oakland as a columnist for the College's newspaper, and as the youth editor for a local magazine... Read More →

Foreign cultures have always intrigued me. My studies of Spanish, Italian, and German, along with a year abroad in Spain, deepened my appreciation of different approaches to life. After an MLS (University at Albany) and an MBA (UC Berkeley), I was drawn to international banking, capped... Read More →