Lit Crawl San Francisco 2020

Alia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for nonfiction from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The New York Times, Bon Appetit... Read More →

Elizabeth Gonzalez James is the author of the novels Mona at Sea and The Bullet Swallower as well as the chapbook Five Conversations About Peter Sellers.

Kate Milliken is the author of the 2013 Iowa Short Fiction Award-winning collection of stories, If I’d Known You Were Coming. A graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars, she has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Tin House Summer Writer’s Workshop and her short stories have appeared in Fiction, Zyzzyva, Santa Monica Review, and New Orleans Review, among others. Her... Read More →

Shelley Blanton-Stroud writes historical mysteries, The Jane Benjamin Novels: Copy Boy, Tomboy and Poster Girl (November 2023). She is President of the Board of 916 Ink, and advisor to the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. She recently stepped down... Read More →