Lit Crawl San Francisco

Laura Atkins is an author, coach and children's book editor with over twenty-five years in the children's book world. She worked at Children's Book Press, Orchard Books, and as an editor at Lee & Low Books, and taught creative writing at the National Centre for Research in Children's... Read More →

Dean Gloster is a former stand-up comic and former clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court, but he's now worked his way up to YA author. His debut novel, Dessert First, mixes humor with heartache. He graduates from Vermont College of Fine Arts in July 2017 with an MFA. His hobbies include... Read More →

Kim Green is the author of Rivals, first book of the upcoming YA science fiction trilogy The Last Extinction (Crown Books for Young Readers), and the adult novels Live a Little (5 Spot), Paging Aphrodite (Delta) and Is That a Moose in Your Pocket? (Delta). A longtime advertising... Read More →

Heather Hughes has taught, counseled, guided raft trips for and researched teens.  Now, she writes realistic young adult and middle grade fiction to amuse them.  Heather has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Lianna McSwain writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for all ages. A Michigan native, and a survivor of Catholic high school, she remorselessly plunders the hi-jinks and misadventures of her two teenage progeny for her own purposes. She has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young... Read More →