Litquake 2019 Festival

Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian, speaker and storyteller based in San Francisco. She’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press, 2017), and ¡Cuéntamelo!(Aunt Lute 2017), an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She's received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center... Read More →

Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl are the creators of the New York Times bestselling Rad Women book series. They are East Bay-based artists/activists/educators/ rabble-rousers committed to making anti-racist feminist literature for people of all ages. Their next book, Rad American... Read More →

Dia Felix wrote the Lambda-nominated experimental novel Nochita ( 2014, City Lights/Sister Spit) and the poetry chapbook YOU YOU YOU (2017, Projective Industries), and programmed the experimental reading series GUTS. She's published recently with Asterix, The Poetry Project Newsletter... Read More →

Ariel Gore is the author of a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction including the novel We Were Witches and the spell collection Hexing the Patriarchy. She teaches online at literarykicthen.com... Read More →

Carley Moore is an essayist, novelist, and poet. She’s a queer single mom, Vans lover, and #catwife. The Not Wives (Feminist Press, September 2019) is her first novel. In 2018, Tinderbox Editions published her debut collection of essays, 16 Pills. In 2017, she published her first poetry chapbook, Portal Poem (Dancing Girl Press) and in 2012, she published a young adult novel, The Stalker Chronicles (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). She lives in New York City with her kid and cat, and teaches at NYU and Bard College... Read More →

Brontez Purnell is a zinester, writer, dancer, and musician who lives in Oakland, California. He is originally from Triana, Alabama. Brontez has written for various publications, including the online edition of Jigsaw, San Francisco Weekly, and Maximum Rock & Roll.

Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. Through visual art, storytelling, and punk rock music, C.Road has thrived to testify the beauty of the imperfect since she began creating art in her hometown of Miami, FL. In early 2006, C.Road released her first illustrated... Read More →

Mya Spalter is a poet and editor. She writes non-fiction about witchcraft and poetry about science. Her first full-length book, Enchantments: A Modern Witch's Guide to Self-Possession, was published in 2018 by Penguin Random House.