Lit Crawl San Francisco

A former artist/facilitator at Skywatchers in San Francisco, Hope's work interrogates the intersections of exile, erasure, and emergence in native and settler communities, exploring issues of recognition, sovereignty, and resilience. A UNM doctoral student in Anthropology, interests... Read More →

M. Hayertz is a novelist and the founder of Creative Momentum. She holds an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies.

Aurelia Lorca is a poet, storyteller, and teacher who lives in San Francisco, California. She has her BA in English from UC Davis, her MFA in Writing and Consciousness from California Institute of Integral Studies, and is an alumna of the Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshops... Read More →

After spending her early childhood in the United States, her family moved to Seoul, Korea when she was six years old. The culture shock hit her in a way she didn’t expect. Her classmates and teachers at school bullied her, and it is during this hard time that she started to write... Read More →

Julie Levak is the Managing Editor of Mission at Tenth and a nonfiction writer who is sometimes referred to as VanishingSF. Julie is furiously at work on a collection of essays (and simple sketches)—tentatively titled A Gallery of Unintended Consequence—that explore the unexpected... Read More →

Maia Scott is a body worker, accessible theater and art instructor at City College, certified labyrinth facilitator and interdisciplinary artist; all of which keep her happily in motion and thinking creatively on her feet. She earned an AA in dance, a BA and certificate in Therapeutic... Read More →

Cindy Shearer is program chair for the MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts and MFA in Writing and Consciousness at CIIS.