Litquake 2011 has more authors than ever before. And we have pictures, bios, links to their websites! Use the drop-down box if you know who you’re looking for, or just scroll through the list below to see all the main festival authors.
To find out where your favorite author will appear, search the Festival Schedule online or download the printable program (4 MB PDF).
Note: Lit Crawl authors are listed on their own site, litcrawl.org/sf, where author names and bios included within each event.
- Ada, Alma Flor
- Adrian, Chris
- Alenyikov, Michael
- Alexander, Donnell
- Ali, Wajahat
- Altschul, Andrew
- Amirrezvani, Anita
- Asarnow, Seth
- Baedeker, Rob
- Ballard, Micah
- Barnstone, Willis
- Barrington, Vanessa
- Barry, Sam
- Bass, Mallory
- Bassham, Lizann
- Baszile, Natalie
- Beckman, Joshua
- Bell, W. Kamau
- Benning, Jim
- Bergon, Frank
- Bernstein, Elizabeth
- Bijan, Donia
- Binchy, Chris
- Bisson, Terry
- Black, Alan
- Black, Cara
- Blackwell, Juliet
- Blaise, Clark
- Blank, Carla
- Bledsoe, Lucy Jane
- Boadiba
- Bolte, Allan
- Boullosa, Carmen
- Boulware, Jack
- Brand, Stewart
- Brenner, Summer
- Brents, Walker
- Bridges, Shirin Yim
- Broadway, Anna
- Bronstein, Phil
- Broun Fellinis
- Brownrigg, Sylvia
- Bullard, Robin
- Burghardt, Peter
- Butler, John
- Cady, Cynthia
- Calabrese, Frank Jr.
- Caldwell, Lucy
- Calhoun, Bob
- Calvocoressi, Gabrielle
- Carstensen, Jeanne
- Cassidy, Stellar
- Cervantes, Lorna Dee
- Chandra, Vikram
- Chatterjee, Pia
- Cherkovski, Neeli
- Chiki, Sean
- Choldenko, Gennifer
- Chopra, Deepak
- Christian, Brian
- Chu, Jenny M.
- Ciston, Sarah
- Clayton, Meg Waite
- Cogan, Laura
- Cole, Chris
- Colomé, Pura López
- Compton, Jody
- Conrad III, Barnaby
- Cooke, Carolyn
- Corbett, David
- Corr, Seth
- Coshnear, Daniel
- Costello, Carol
- Crane, Michael
- Crouch, Katie
- Cruz, Amy
- Davis, Patricia
- Davis, Sherry
- De Robertis, Carolina
- Deifell, Tony
- Delevett, Peter
- Dinkelspiel, Frances
- DiOrio, Rana
- Doyle, Laurie Ann
- Duane, Daniel
- Dugas, Andrew
- Duncan, David Ewing
- Durst, Will
- DuShane, Tony
- Dwinell, Kim
- Dynasty, Shane
- Edwards, Jason
- Egan, Jennifer
- Egan, Kelly Jean
- Egeland, Tom
- Ehle, Rob
- Elhajj, Tim
- Elkeles, Simone
- Ellroy, James
- Enright, Anne
- etc., Justin
- Eugenides, Jeffrey
- Everett, J.H.
- Fassler, Joe
- Faulkner, Sarah
- Faust, Christa
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
- Ferraris, Zoë
- Ferraz, Jerry
- Finn, Maria
- Fischer, Seth
- Fisher, Adam
- Fitzpatrick, Becca
- Foust, Rebecca
- Fowler, Karen Joy
- Frank, Susan
- Frank, Thaisa
- Franklin, Greg
- Frazier, Britney
- Freeman, John
- Freinkel, Susan
- Funk, Ryan
- Gagnon, Michelle
- Gallagher, Patrick
- Gallagher, W. Patrick
- Ganahl, Jane
- Gates, Cody
- Geary, James
- Gifford, Barry
- Gilton, Brian
- Glass, Julia
- Goetz, Thomas
- Golan, Yasmin
- Goldmark, Kathi Kamen
- Gómez-Peña, Guillermo
- Goodwin, Caroline
- Gran, Sara
- Greco, Katrina
- Greer, Andrew Sean
- Gregg, James
- Gurba, Myriam
- Guthrie, Julian
- Haas, Charlie
- Handler, Chelsea
- Handler, Daniel
- Harris, Latif
- Hartman, Kenneth E. and Alia
- Harwood, Seth
- Haskins, Andrew
- Haven, Heather
- Heath, Erin
- Henderson, Doug
- Herrera, Francisco
- Herrera, Juan Felipe
- Hewicker, Scott
- Hirshfield, Jane
- Ho, Carolyn
- Hodkin, Michelle
- Holdaway, Matt
- Holthe, Tess Uriza
- Horst, Jørn Lier
- Housden, Roger
- Hubbard, Barbara D.
- Hudgens, Tom
- Hughes, Nicole
- Hughes, Patrick
- Humes, Immy
- Hunt, Elizabeth Singer
- Jackson, Spoon and Judith Tannenbaum
- James, Luke
- John, Jory
- Johnson, Adam
- Johnson, JR
- Johnson, Roxane Beth
- Jonath, Leslie
- Junker, Howard
- Kageyama, Yuri
- Karim, Persis
- Karnes, Jordan
- Katz, Dorian
- Kaufman, Alan
- Kaviani, Nazy
- Kendrick, Bill
- Keshgegian, Flora A.
- Khadivi, Laleh
- Khan, Tehmina
- Kilroy, Claire
- King, Laurie R.
- Kleid, Suzanne
- Klein, Allen
- Klosterman, Chuck
- Krasny, Michael
- Krieger, Nick
- Kuipers, Keetje
- Laird, Pamela
- Lam, Andrew
- Landa, Allison
- Lattin, Don
- Lauren, Jillian
- Lease, Joseph
- Lefkowitz, Frances
- Lehmann-Haupt, Rachel
- Lethal, Donna
- Levi, Robin
- Lewis, Thomas B.
- Liebegott, Ali
- Lim, Genny
- Limón, Ada
- Lisick, Beth
- Literary Clown Foolery
- Littlefield, Sophie
- Lo, Cheena
- Lo, Malinda
- Lombard, Kirk
- Lucas, Michael
- Lukas, Michael David
- Luxury, Rik
- Lyrics Born
- MacDougall, Delia
- Macy, Jon
- Maksik, Alexander
- Mamatas, Nick
- Mann, Randall
- Manning, Kevin
- Mansbach, Adam
- Manyika, Sarah Ladipo
- MariNaomi
- Marklund, Liza
- Maron, Marc
- Martin-Parker, Mira
- Masters, Jarvis and Susan Moon
- Mazer, Laura
- McAllister, Michael
- McClure, Michael
- McDee, Katie
- McDonnell, Adrienne
- McFadden, Cyra
- McFerrin, Linda Watanabe
- McGuane, Thomas
- McKeon, Belinda
- McMullen, Beth
- Meloan, Steven & Michael
- Meltzer, David
- Merrill, Wendy
- Merz, Richard
- Michael, Myron
- Minor, Gwen
- Mitchell, Andrew
- Mlodinow, Leonard
- Mohr, Joshua
- Monster, Lady
- Moore, Christopher
- Mukherjee, Bharati
- Muller, Eddie
- Muller, Richard
- Munn, A.E.
- Muradov, Roman
- Murguía, Alejandro
- Murray, Tina Marie
- Myers, Paul
- Myers, Tim
- Myrick, Leland
- Nelson, Jandy
- Nelson, Jim
- Nelson, Penny
- Newman, Denise
- Newman, Janis Cooke
- Nicklin, Flip
- Nolan, Monica
- Orenstein, Peggy
- Orner, Peter
- Ortalda, Claire
- Otoshi, Kathryn
- O’Malley, Shannon
- Packer, Ann
- Palacios, Sara
- Palmer, Michael
- Payne, Holly Lynn
- Perez, Jason Magabo
- Perham, Brittany
- Pham, Thien
- Polito, Robert
- Porter, Roger
- Portman, Frank
- Potter, Jeff
- Price, Charlie
- Prophet, Chuck
- Provensen, Alice
- Puchner, Eric
- Puckett, Kent
- Puig, Marcelo
- Pursell, Peg Alford
- Q, Guinevere
- Rader, Dean
- Rawlins, Claire
- Ray, Shann
- Reed, Ishmael
- Reed, Tennessee
- Reinhardt, Dana
- Reynolds, Michael
- Rich, Simon
- Richardson, Rachel
- Richmond, Lewis
- Rivera, Brian
- Roach, Mary
- Roback, Missy
- Roberts, Michael
- Robinson, Kate
- Robles, Tony
- Rogers, Julie
- Rogoff, Marianne
- Rohan, Ethel
- Rosen, Rob
- Rucker, Rudy
- Russell, Karen
- Ruttenburg, Nancy
- Ryan, Shawna Yang
- Ryder, Brandi Lynn
- Sage, C. J.
- Saldivar, Ramón
- San José, Sean
- Schoettler, Joan
- Scholz, Carter
- Schwartz, David
- Scott-Waters, Marilyn
- Sears, Olivia E.
- Sebold, Alice
- Selvin, Joel
- Seraji, Mahbod
- Serpell, Namwali
- Setterberg, Fred
- Shields, Christine
- Shirazi, Darian
- Sibbet, Susan Herron
- Siegel, Matthew
- Sigler, Scott
- Silver, Katherine
- Sinclair, Alyson Price
- Sinclair, April
- Singer, Bob
- Sinister, Bucky
- Siraganian, Jen
- Slater, Dashka
- Smiley, Jane
- Snider, Bruce
- Soehnlein, K.M
- Solnit, Rebecca
- Soloway, Jill
- Spring, Declan
- Starhawk
- Stephens, Ransom
- Sterry, David Henry
- Stroh, Frances
- Sullivan, Denise
- Swensen, Ianthe Brautigan
- Tarn, Nathaniel
- Tate, Joe
- Tennis, Cary
- Terence, Susan
- Thon, Melanie Rae
- Tracy, Kristen
- Treggiari, Chris
- Tupitsyn, Masha
- Twohy, Mike
- Unterberger, Richie
- Urioste, Marcelino
- V, Dan
- Vadi, Jose
- Varon, Charlie
- Verburg, Carol
- Veselka, Vanessa
- Villalon, Oscar
- Volz, Alia
- Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Waldman, Ayelet
- Warner, James
- Warren, Alli
- Washington, Glynn
- Watrous, Malena
- Watts, David
- Weeks, Laurie
- Weiner, Jody
- Weinstein, Ted
- Wells, Jon
- Winspear, Jacqueline
- Wohlsen, Marcus
- Wolf, Dan
- Wood, Brian
- Woodard, Boston
- Woodrell, Daniel
- Word for Word Performing Arts Company
- Wrenn, Greg
- Yamashita, Karen Tei
- Yang, Gene Luen
- Yee, Kenton K.
- Young, Moira
- Zelaya, Norman
- Zellerbach, Merla
- Zimmerman, Anne
- Zimmerman, Keith and Kent
- Zoida, Salvatore
- Zubizarreta, Gabriel
