Lit Crawl San Francisco

Kara Levy is is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University and was a recent Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. Her work appears in such places as Mississippi Review Prize Stories, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Huffington Post, California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State, Audible, and Narrative Magazine, where she was a winner of the 30Below Prize for writers under 30. | | Kara lives in... Read More →

​Kate Folk is a fiction writer whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in Conjunctions, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Colorado Review, Tin House, The Baltimore Review, and Joyland. She is a 2016-17 Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts, was a 2016 finalist for the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing fellowships, and has attended residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She... Read More →

Susanna Kwan is a writer, editor, and illustrator. She has received fellowships from Kundiman and the San Francisco Writers' Grotto and has an MFA from Vanderbilt University.

is a San Francisco (and often Missoula, Montana) author whose first novel, The Given World, was praised in a starred Kirkus review as “an immensely rewarding and remarkable debut.” It has been nominated for both the PEN/Bingham Prize and the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction.

Daniel Lanza Rivers recently completed his Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies at Claremont Graduate University, where his research explored the relationship between landscape, development, and desire in Californian literature and public cultures. His fiction has appeared in Joyland Magazine, Apogee, Connu, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and he is currently at work on a novel. He lives in Oakland, CA with his partner and teaches Liberal... Read More →