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... Read More →

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... Read More →

Dominica Phetteplace is the founder of the San Francisco branch of Women Who Submit Writing. Her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, Asimov's and Clarkesworld. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award.

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... 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.