Maggie Levantovskaya

Maggie Levantovskaya is a writer and lecturer in the English department at Santa Clara University. She was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and grew up in San Francisco. She has a PhD in comparative literature from UC San Diego. Her writing has appeared…

Michael David Lukas

Michael David Lukas has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, a student at the American University of Cairo, and a waiter at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont. Translated into more than a dozen…

devorah major

devorah major is San Francisco's third Poet Laureate. She is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Califia's Daughter (Willow Books).

Emily Martin

Emily Martin has been working as a freelance illustrator since the mid-2000s. She is also a teacher at Megamoth Studio. In 2012, Martin became the official artist and co-creator of the all-ages fantasy comic Princeless with Jeremy Whitley. She…
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Shanthi Sekaran

Shanthi Sekaran is a novelist and television writer. Her most recent adult novel, Lucky Boy, was named an Indie Next Great Read, an Amazon Editor's Pick and a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Library Journal, and the San Francisco…

Sistah Scifi

Sistah Scifi is the first Black-owned bookstore focused on scifi and fantasy casting spells to uplift work by Black and Native American women.

Masha Rumer

Masha Rumer's nonfiction book about immigrant families, Parenting with an Accent, was published in 2021. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Parents, and more, winning awards from…

Melissa Pagluica

Melissa Pagluica is a full-time artist, illustrator, and storyteller. She is the creator of the graphic novel Above the Clouds and the webcomic Monster Heart, which can be found on Webtoon. In addition to her own work, Pagluica has worked as…

Nia McAllister

Nia McAllister is the senior public programs manager for the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.

Scott Sessions

Scott Sessions (he/they), a queer spiritual life-coach and practitioner of transformative events, grew up in the vast beige suburbia of Salt Lake County, Utah. Raised orthodox Mormon/LDS, Sessions learned early on about the community-making…