Litquake 2019 Festival

Jen Siraganian is a Bay Area poet, teacher, and author of the chapbook Fracture. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has received scholarships from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and Napa Valley Writers' Conference. Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as Best... Read More →

Jan Steckel was a Harvard- and Yale-trained pediatrician who took care of Spanish-speaking children until chronic pain persuaded her to change professions to writer, poet and medical editor. She is an activist for bisexual and disability rights who lives in Oakland, California.Her... Read More →

Jennifer Massoni Pardini has contributed to magazines since 1999. Currently, she is Senior Editor and Marketing Specialist for the GENTRY family of magazines, a division of Golden State that includes Gentry, now in its 26th year, as well as Gentry Home, Gentry Destinations, and Gentry... Read More →

Alan Soldofsky is the author of In the Buddha Factory (Truman State University Press, 2013). He teaches at San Jose State University where he directs the MFA program in Creative Writing. He lives in San Jose.

Sally Ashton is Editor-in-Chief of DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. Writing across genres, in collaboration with artists, and specializing in short prose forms, Ashton is the author of four collections. She has taught at San José State University, UC Santa... Read More →