Lit Crawl San Francisco

Anita Amirrezvani, born in Tehran, is the author of the novel Equal of the Sun, which was published by Scribner. Her first novel, The Blood of Flowers, has appeared in more than 25 languages and was long-listed for the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction. A recipient of an MFA in Creative... Read More →

Yalitza Ferreras was recently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing is forthcoming in Best American Short Stories 2016 and appears in Colorado Review, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education and Daring to Write... Read More →

Toni Mirosevich is the author of six books of poetry and prose, including The Takeaway Bin (poetry) and Pink Harvest, a book of nonfiction stories and winner of the First Series in Creative Nonfiction Award. She is the recipient of fellowships with the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident... Read More →

Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body from Algonquin Books.The winner of two O. Henry Awards, her work has appeared in The Paris Review, the Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fiction fellow.

Esmé Weijun Wang is a novelist and essayist. Her debut novel, The Border of Paradise, was called a Best Book of 2016 by NPR and one of the 25 Best Novels of 2016 by Electric Literature. She was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017, and is... Read More →