Laura Wenus

Laura Wenus is a San Francisco–based multimedia journalist who has worked in digital, print and radio newsrooms on daily, breaking, and enterprise stories. She hosts the San Francisco Chronicle's SFNext: Fixing Our City podcast.

Glynn Washington

Before creating the Snap Judgment show heard on over five hundred NPR radio stations, Glynn Washington worked as an educator, diplomat, community activist, actor, political strategist, fist-shaker, mountain-hollerer, and foot-stomper. Washington…
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Brooke Warner

Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. Brooke is a TEDx speaker and the former…
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Taleen Voskuni

Taleen Voskuni is an Armenian-American writer who grew up in the Bay Area diaspora surrounded by a rich Armenian community and her ebullient family. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English and currently lives in San Francisco, working…

Kara Vernor

Kara Vernor’s fiction and essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf, The Normal School, and elsewhere. She has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and her writing has been selected for Best Small Fictions,…

Margaret Verble

Margaret Verble is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud’s Line, New York Times Notable Book of the Year Cherokee America, and When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, one of Booklist’s…

Shereen Marisol Meraji

Shereen Marisol Meraji is a veteran audio producer and journalist who has been telling stories with sound for more than two decades. Shereen helped create NPR’s critically acclaimed podcast covering race and identity, Code Switch. During her…

Leila Mottley

A New York Times Writer to Watch, Leila Mottley is an author native to Oakland, California, with an interest in reflecting on institutional and individual inequity, liberation, and joy through writing. Her debut novel, Nightcrawling, was selected…
Wendy Xu

Soleil Ho

Soleil Ho is a columnist and cultural critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Ho was previously the Chronicle’s restaurant critic, spearheading Bay Area restaurant recommendations through the flagship Top Restaurants series. In 2022, they…
Barbora Mrazkova

Michelle Zauner

Zauner is best known as a singer and guitarist who creates dreamy, shoegaze-inspired indie pop under the name Japanese Breakfast. Her most recent album, Jubilee (2021), earned two Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music…