Myer, Caitlin

Caitlin Myer writes novels and short stories, and is currently shopping her first novel, Hoodoo. She is the founder of Portuguese Artists Colony, a writers’ collective/monthly reading series. Ms. Myer is not Portuguese.

Zilberbourg, Olga

Olga Zilberbourg was born in Russia and lives in San Francisco. She edits, writes fiction, translates poetry, and blogs in two languages. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, J Journal, and Thema.

Volz, Alia

Alia Volz. Soul food. Suck face. Sharp fangs. ZYZZYVA. Sugar freak. Sleazy friends. Instant City. Science fiction. Storm front. Sticky fingers. aliavolz.com. Stage fright. Smelly farts. Sensational figure. Literary Death Match. Secret fraternity. San Francisco.

Tuttle, Ian

Ian Tuttle was born in San Francisco. He likes bicycles and writing. His short stories have been called moody, haunting, and the real thing. A novel is forthcoming. His website is wordsofeverytype.com.

Spinrad, Paul

Paul Spinrad is a freelancer and enthusiast who works as projects editor for Make Magazine, and lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two tots. He uses his parents’ money to pay for childcare.

Hatch, Jeremy

Jeremy Hatch is film editor of TheRumpus.net, and a writer of diverse interests. He blogs daily at JeremyHatch.com.

Bassist, Elissa

Elissa Bassist edits TheRumpus.net column “Funny Women.” Her essay “A Baker’s Dozen of My Feelings about Infinite Jest” appears in Best of the Web 2010. Peruse elissabassist.com for literary, feminist, and personal criticism.

Pursell, Peg Alford

Peg Alford Pursell earned an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her fiction and poetry both have been honored. Her story collection was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Fiction Award.

Moore, Shana McLean

Shana McLean Moore, a print columnist and speaker who specializes in community building, writes her “Confessions from the Carpool” essays and shares her come-together message with live audiences to entertain, validate and inspire.

McLaughlin, Robert

Robert McLaughlin received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. His fiction has appeared in Facets, Velvet Mafia, and The Cimarron Review. He is currently at work on his first novel.

Burke, Katie

Katie Burke is an attorney and writer. She has been published with HarperCollins and various literary journals, including SoMa Literary Review and Culture-Voice. She is writing her first memoir, about transformation through community.

Perry, Andre

Andre Perry is writing a memoir about his misadventures in the San Francisco indie rock scene in the early 2000s, called Thinking of a Dream I Had. He lives in Iowa City.

Lok, Mimi

Mimi Lok's work has appeared in Hyphen, Time Out, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. Based in San Francisco, she directs the McSweeney's Voice of Witness book series, which chronicles human rights issues through oral history.