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Minnie Phan

Minnie Phan is a Vietnamese American illustrator and designer creating visual communications that spark delight. Her debut picture book was The Yellow Áo Dài,written by Hanh Bui. Minnie’s work also includes animation and comics, and she…
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Kristina M Canales

Kristina M Canales (she/they) is a lifelong reader, writer, and gaymer. She is the founder of Queerthology - an online QTBIPOC book club - and loves to blur the border between horror and romance with her monster erotica. When not working their…
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Laura Warrell

Laura Warrell is the author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize, and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her writing has…
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Karen Lee Erlichman

Karen Lee Erlichman, D.Min, LCSW is a spiritual director, psychotherapist, writer and mentor, and serves as co-chair of the Professional Advisory Group for the Spiritual Care Services Department at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. She has…
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Aimee Phan

AIMEE PHAN is an author, NEA fellow, and faculty member in the MFA Writing Program and Literature Program at California College of the Arts. Her debut story collection, We Should Never Meet, won the Association for Asian American Studies Book…
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Nathalie Franco

Nathalie Franco is a queer, Mexican-American writer whose work aims to explore and blur the borders of non-fiction through hybridity and cross-genre writing. Her work primarily focuses on traversing the intersectionality of race, identity, gender,…
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Olivia Berriz

Olivia Berriz is a non-fiction writer based in San Francisco. Her work explores, among other things, the complexities of the Queer/queer embodied experience. After completing her MFA at the University of San Francisco, she will begin USF’s…
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Sarah Cronin

Sarah Cronin is a multi-genre writer, journalist and teacher. Her work has been featured in publications across the U.S., Brazil and Guatemala. In 2023, her poetry was long listed for the Frontier Poetry Hurt & Healing Prize. Sarah currently…
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Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor is the author of the novels The Disagreement and Father Junípero's Confessor. Under the pseudonym T.T. Monday, he has also published two thrillers, The Setup Man and Double Switch, featuring the relief pitcher and detective Johnny…
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Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler is Professor of Performance Studies and Chair of the Department of Film, Theatre, and Dance at San José State. He is also an award-winning playwright. His plays have been produced on Broadway, in London’s West End, off-Broadway,…