Lit Crawl San Francisco

Monica Nolan is the author of the Lesbian Career Girl series: Lois Lenz, Lesbian Secretary; Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher; Maxie Mainwaring, Lesbian Dilettante; and Dolly Dingle, Lesbian Landlady. She was nominated for a Lambda Literary award for her first book, The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories, co-written with Alisa Surkis. Her articles about film and pop culture have appeared in Noir City, Keyframe, Bitch Magazine, Lambda... Read More →

Katie Gilmartin’s checkered past includes stints as a buoyant union organizer, bona fide sex researcher, and engaged college professor. She now teaches printmaking classes and runs the Queer Ancestors Project, devoted to forging sturdy relationships between Queer young artists and their ancestors. Her illustrated noir mystery, Blackmail, My Love, is set in San Francisco in the Dark Ages of Queerdom: 1951. Winner of Lambda and Indiefab Gold... Read More →

Allen Sawyer is the founder of the Hot Pants Homo Players and the author of the plays Hot Pants Homo, Senator Swish and Lavender Lockeroom

K.M. Soehnlein is the author of the novels The World of Normal Boys, You Can Say You Knew Me When, and Robin and Ruby. He’s been honored with the Lambda Literary Award and the Henfield Prize. His personal essays have appeared in the anthologies Love, Castro Street; Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys; Who’s Yer Daddy: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners; and Bookmark Now: Writers in Unreaderly Times. He teaches in the MFA in... Read More →

I wrote detective novels for a number of years, and even more fun was writing comic books. I love pulp of all kinds and I'm going to reading something by Rebecca Brown.