Litquake 2018 festival

Michael Andreasen holds a master's degree in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.  His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, McSweeney's, Zoetrope: All-Story, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.  His debut collection, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover... Read More →

Rita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up, winner of the Believer award. Her writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON, and Guernica.She is an editor at large for McSweeney's.

Bradley Jay Owens is a former journalist and Foreign Service officer who served in Washington, D.C. and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He has taught creative writing at Stanford University, S.F. State, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in Pacific Grove, California.

 Aimee Phan grew up in Orange County and now teaches at California College of the Arts. A 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Aimee received her MFA from the University of Iowa. Her first book, We Should Never Meet, was named a Notable Book by the Kiryama... Read More →

Glori Simmons is an award-winning writer whose books include Graft: poems (Truman State University Press, 2002), Suffering Fools: stories (Spokane Prize, Willow Springs Books, 2017), and Carry You: stories (Fiction Prize, Autumn House Press, 2018). She lives in Oakland and directs... Read More →