Rocio Bonilla

Rocio Bonilla holds a BFA and worked in advertising for many years before founding her own company, Erase una vez, through which she creates murals for children's rooms. She both wrote and illustrated What Color Is a Kiss?, Little Bro, Big Sis,…

Emma Bland Smith

Emma Bland Smith is the award-winning author of Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West, as well as other fiction and nonfiction books for children. Her latest nonfiction picture book is Mr. McCloskey's Marvelous…

Darwin BondGraham

Darwin BondGraham has reported on gun violence for the Guardian and was an enterprise reporter for the East Bay Express. BondGraham’s work has also appeared with ProPublica and other leading national and local outlets. He holds a doctorate…

Yohanca Delgado

Yohanca Delgado is a 2021–2023 Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts recipient. Her recent fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories 2022, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2022, The Best…

W. Kamau Bell

W. Kamau Bell is a dad, husband, and comedian. He directed and executive-produced the four-part Showtime documentary We Need To Talk About Cosby, which premiered at Sundance. He famously met with the KKK on his Emmy-Award-winning CNN docu-series…

Patricia Quintana Bidar

Patricia Q. Bidar is a writer from the Port of Los Angeles area, with family roots in southern Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. She is an alum of the UC Davis Graduate Writing Program, and also holds a BA in filmmaking. Her work has been included…

Erica Berry

Erica Berry is a writer based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she was a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times Magazine, the Yale…

Margot Douaihy

Margot Douaihy is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, PA, now living in Northampton, MA. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the UK. She is the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen:…

Keli Dailey

Keli Dailey has been a journalist for twenty-one years, a comedian for eight years, a professor for six. And she's a lifelong cautionary tale.
, ,

Aya de León

Aya de León is a Black/Puerto Rican author who teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley. She is the current poet laureate of the City of Berkeley. Aya's novels have won the Northern California Book Award, the Jane Addams prize for social justice…