Siegel, Matthew

Matthew Siegel is a poet and essayist from New York. He is a 2009-2011 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Lo-Ball, Ninth Letter, and Washington Square.

Sawyer, Christopher

Bay Area native Christopher Sawyer is an internationally renowned sommelier, wine consultant, critic, public speaker, and elite wine competition judge, and has been personal sommelier for an array of luminaries, from the Getty family to the Gorbachevs.

Mason, Zachary

Zachary Mason is the Vivian Darkbloom Professor of Pure and Applied Lepidoptery at the Barro Colorado research station in Costa Rica. His first book, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, was published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Limón, Ada

Ada Limón is originally from Sonoma, California. She is the author of three collections of poems. Her most recent book, Sharks in the Rivers, is out this fall from Milkweed Editions.

Hoover, Paul

Paul Hoover's poetry books include Sonnet 56, Edge and Fold, and Poems in Spanish. He edited New American Writing and the anthology Postmodern American Poetry. A new book, Desolation: Souvenir, is forthcoming from Omnidawn.

Ekiss, Robin

Robin Ekiss is the author of The Mansion of Happiness, winner of the 2010 Shenandoah/ Glasgow Poetry Prize, and finalist for both the 2010 Northern California and California Book Awards. She has a preference for Pinot.

Dungy, Camille T.

Camille T. Dungy is author of two books of poetry, most recently Suck on the Marrow, has edited three poetry anthologies, most recently Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, and teaches at SFSU.