Lit Crawl San Francisco

Ed Bowers is the recipient of the Kathy Acker award for poetry. He's been a writer and journalist for Central City Extra for over a decade. Well known as "The Poet Laureate" of the underground San Francisco poetry scene Ed spends most of his time working and helping with multiple Faithful Fool's projects and also as an employee at St. Boniface. Ed lives in the tenderloin.

I work as a tenant organizer at SOMCAN (South of Market Community Action Network). I provides tenant counselling referrals and conducts workshops in Tagalog and English. | | I am also a member of a Tagalog/English rap group called "KASAMAS" that started in 2004 at the Filipino Community Center. Utilizing music as an extension of our commitment to serving the people.

Shaghayegh Cyrous is a multimedia and social practice artist based in San Francisco and Tehran. Her works deal with communication and translation caused by worldwide cultural and political circumstances. Using interactive strategies such as participatory engagement projects, performances, video, installations and video chats to create poetic spaces and opportunity for communication and connections. She is also co-founder and creative director... Read More →

Erin McElroy directs the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and organizes mutual aid direct actions with Eviction Free San Francisco. As a doctoral student in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, Erin engages decolonial method and queer critique to study the postsocialist dispossession of Roma communities.

Megan Wilson is a visual artist, writer, and activist based in San Francisco. Known for her large-scale installations, public projects, and street art, she incorporates a broad range of pop culture methodologies and aesthetics to address conceptual interests that include home, homelessness, social justice, anti-capitalism, impermanence and generosity. She co-founded the San Francisco based arts website stretcher.org. Her writings have also... Read More →