Litquake 2018 festival

Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013). He is an MFA graduate from Saint Mary's College, a Kundiman fellow, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo theater... Read More →

MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis, and Dear Animal. She is a recipient of the 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Her latest publications can be found in bags of coffee from Nomadic Coffee and online at Academy of American Poets... Read More →

Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks, and her poems have appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the... Read More →

Brian Laidlaw is a poet-songwriter originally from the Bay Area. He has released the poetry collections Amoratorium (Paper Darts Press) and The Stuntman (Milkweed Editions), each of which includes a companion album of original music; another book called The Mirrormaker is forthcoming... Read More →

Susie Meserve is a poet, essayist, blogger, and mother. Her personal essays have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, Salon.com, and the book anthology Show Me All Your Scars: True Stories of Living with Mental Illness. Her debut poetry collection, Little Prayers, won the 2018... Read More →

Aaron Shurin is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, most recently Flowers & Sky: Two Talks (Entre Rios Books), The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks (University of Michigan Press, 2016) and Citizen, a collection of prose poems (City Lights Books... Read More →

Kathleen Winter's second book, I will not kick my friends (2018), won the 2017 Elixir Poetry Prize. Her debut collection, Nostalgia for the Criminal Past, won the Texas Institute of Letters first book award. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Agni, New Statesman, New Republic... Read More →