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Faith Adiele

FAITH ADIELE is the author of Meeting Faith, an award-winning account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun, and The Nigerian Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. Her media credits include A World of Calm (HBO-Max), Sleep Stories…

Mia Andler

Mia Andler is a foraging expert, founder and director of Vilda—a nonprofit that connects children to nature in Northern California—and co-author of The Bay Area Forager. Originally from Finland, she has been foraging since she was a little…

Olga Zilberbourg

Olga Zilberbourg is the author of Like Water and Other Stories and four Russian-language story collections. She has published fiction and essays in Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Narrative, Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Scoundrel Time,…

Sasha Vasilyuk

Sasha Vasilyuk is a journalist and author based in San Francisco. Her debut novel Your Presence Is Mandatory, set between Nazi Germany and Ukraine in the decades since WWII, will be published in the United States in April 2024 as well as in…

Barbara Tomash

Barbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry, PRE-, Arboreal, Flying in Water, which won the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award, and The Secret of White. An earlier version of PRE- was a finalist for the Colorado Prize and the Rescue Press…

Karen Zukor

Karen Zukor has been a professional paper conservator for over forty years and is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation. She has been responsible for many collections—including fine art, archival material, maps, documents, and…

Keith Hansen

Keith Hansen illustrated and coauthored Hansen’s Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada (Heyday, 2021), a field guide companion to Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution. He is a professional bird…

Juliayn Coleman

Juliayn Coleman received a diploma in bookbinding and book conservation from the North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts in 2003, and has been a professional bookbinder/book conservator and teacher ever since. Her books have been…

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…