Lit Crawl San Francisco

Oscar Villalon is managing editor of the San Francisco literary journal ZYZZYVA. The former book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, he lives with his family in the Mission District.

Earle McCartney is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship. His stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Common, Meridian, Big Fiction, and elsewhere. He was awarded the Joseph Henry Jackson Award by the San Francisco Foundation in 2013.

Caille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification, which won the Barnes & Noble Emerging Writers Award. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Best American Short Stories 2016. She is an editorial writer and columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle.

Dominica Phetteplace is a math tutor who writes science fiction and occasionally literary fiction. Her work has appeared in Asimov's, ZYZZYVA, F&SF and Clarkesworld. She has won a Pushcart Prize, a Deming Award and fellowships from I-Park and The MacDowell Colony.

Octavio Solis is a playwright and director whose works Alicia’s Miracle, Se Llama Cristina, John Steinbeck’s The Pastures of Heaven, Ghosts of the River, Quixote, Lydia, June in a Box, Lethe, Marfa Lights, Gibraltar, The Ballad of Pancho and Lucy, The 7 Visions of Encarnación, Bethlehem, Dreamlandia, El Otro,Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, andLa Posada Mágica have been mounted at the California... Read More →

Deb Olin Unferth is the author of the collection of stories Minor Robberies, the novel Vacation, and the memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War. Unferth was a finalist for a 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award.