Lit Crawl San Francisco

Rhea St. Julien, MFT, is a writer and an arts-based psychotherapist, living with her family in the Mission District of San Francisco. Her work about interracial family life has been in MUTHA, Hip Mama, The Bold Italic, KQED and Rad Dad.

Shoshana von Blanckensee has been published randomly over the last 15 years, but is too busy packing school lunches to go into it. She lives in Alameda with her Partner, her 17 year old, her 6 year old, her 3 year old, and a fluffy little mutt named Fritzi.

Tyler Cohen is a cartoonist who uses autobiography and surrealism to explore gender, parenthood, race, and female experience in her book Primahood: Magenta. Her work has appeared in the Ignatz Award-winning anthology, Qu33r, Alphabet, The Feminist Utopia Project, What’s Your Sign, Girl? and online at MuthaMagazine.com.

Cheryl Klein is the author of a story collection, The Commuters (City Works Press), and a novel, Lilac Mines (Manic D Press). Her stories and essays have appeared in The Normal School, Literature for Life, The Manifest-Station, Mutha Magazine, Razorcake and several anthologies. The shortest story she ever wrote (100 words) won The Rattling Wall's Microfiction Contest. Her work has been honored by the MacDowell Colony and the Center for Cultural... Read More →

Shanthi Sekaran lives in Berkeley, California. She has two sons, ages 3 and 8, who describe her as mean, beautiful, the best defender and stinky-butt. She teaches writing and literature at CCA, is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, and her new novel, Lucky Boy, comes out in January.