Raskin, Andy

Andy Raskin authored The Ramen King and I. His stories appeared on All Things Considered, This American Life, and in the New York Times and Gourmet. A 2009 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards judge, Andy lives in San Francisco

Stonestreet, Lisa Gluskin

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s Tulips, Water, Ash (UP of New England) was selected for the 2009 Morse Prize. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and Quarterly West. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.

Corman-Roberts, Paul

Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the poetry & flash collections, neocom(muter) & Coming WorldGone World. A former and likely future political activist, his life is currently controlled by a five year-old girl.

Payne, Holly

Holly Payne is a novelist, screenwriter, and founder of Skywriter Books, a writing coaching and publishing consultancy. Her novel Kingdom of Simplicity won the Benjamin Franklin Award.

Teague, Alexandra

Alexandra Teague's first book, Mortal Geography (Persea), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, is forthcoming in April 2010. A 2006-2008 Stegner Fellow, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2008 and Best American Poetry 2009.

Stiles, T.J.

T.J. Stiles won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.

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.