Litquake 2019 Festival

Nicki Orser is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University, a certified Amherst Writers & Artists Facilitator, and founder of the Penngrove Reading Series. She lives in Petaluma with her husband and two children. 

NICOLE R. ZIMMERMAN is a recipient of the 2019 Discovered Award for Emerging Literary Artists Grant, made possible, in part, with funds from Creative Sonoma and the National Endowment for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco and is an alumna of... Read More →

A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Hilary Zaid is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers' Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine, The Southwest Review... Read More →

M.J. (Michael Joseph) Arcangelini was born 1952 in western Pennsylvania, grew up there & inCleveland, Ohio. He’s resided in northern California since 1979 and currently lives in west Sonoma County. He began writing poetry at age 11. His work has been published in little magazines... Read More →

Born on the German coast of the Baltic Sea, Stefan Kiesbye moved to Berlin in the 1980s. He studied drama and worked in radio before starting a degree in American studies, English, and comparative literature at Berlin’s Free University. A scholarship brought him to Buffalo, New... Read More →