Litquake 2012 has more than 400 authors at the main Festival—not counting another 400+ at the Crawl. 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 Litquake 2012 Program in PDF format.
Note: Lit Crawl authors are listed on their own site, litcrawl.org/sf, where author names and bios included within each event.
- "Hair of the Dog" Writing Workshops
- Abinader, Elmaz
- Adler, Tamar
- Aguiar, Cristhiano
- Alarcón, Daniel
- Alarcón, Francisco X.
- Amirrezvani, Anita
- Ansary, Tamim
- Applegate, Katherine
- Arieff, Adrienne
- Arrison, Sonia
- Au, Nancy
- Averbeck, Jim
- Babtkis, Randall
- Baker, Tiffany
- Banales, Meliza
- Barry, Sam
- Bateson, John
- Bean, Kyrsten
- Becker, Daniel Levin
- Bedard, Anthony
- Behm-Steinberg, Hugh
- Bell, Gabrielle
- Benson, Gigi
- Birdsall, John
- Black, Alan
- Black, Michael Ian
- Boas, Nancy
- Boast, Will
- Boulware, Jack
- Boyett, Steven R.
- Brady, Catherine
- Brenchley, Chaz
- Bridges, Shirin Yim
- brown, drea
- Brown, Patrick
- Budnitz, Judy
- Burcell, Robin
- Buzbee, Lewis
- Capozzola, Michael
- Carlson, Stacy
- Carlson-Wee, Kai
- Carlsson, Chris
- carren, davy
- Cash, Julian
- Castro, Martina
- Catanese, Brandi Wilkins
- Cengel, Katya
- Chard, Mario
- Chen, Mel Y.
- Choldenko, Gennifer
- Choy, Philip P.
- Ciabattari, Jane
- Clark, Airial
- Cline, Julie
- Clowes, Daniel
- Coake, Christopher
- Cole, Chris
- Compestine, Ying Chang
- Coplin, Amanda
- Corbett, David
- Cotler, Steve
- Cotton, Eddy Joe
- Cox, Carolyn
- Coyote, Peter
- Cray, Ed
- Crouch, Katie
- Cult Comedy Hero & Author Chris Elliott
- Davis, Belva
- Davis, Laura E.
- Day, Lucille Lang
- Day, Meg
- De La Tour, Dixie
- De Robertis, Carolina
- DiPietra, Amber
- Doyle, Laurie Ann
- Dugas, Andrew
- Duncan, David Ewing
- Dungy, Camille T.
- Durst, Debi
- Durst, Will
- Earle, Steve
- Eggers, Dave
- Ekiss, Keith
- Ekiss, Robin
- Elinson, Elaine
- Elliott, Chiyuma
- Elliott, Chris
- Elya, Susan Middleton
- Englehart, Steve
- Erich Origen and Gan Golan
- Exploring the Art Behind the Writing
- Farrar, Jay
- Feder, Sandra V.
- Ferraris, Zoë
- Fine, Doug
- Finger, Anne
- Fioravanti, Valerie
- Fishkoff, Sue
- Fitzgerald, Isaac
- Floreen, Tim
- Fly through the Lit Crawl
- Foerster, Jennifer
- Foley, Adelle
- Foley, Jack
- Fowler, Karen Joy
- Frangello, Gina
- Frank, Thaisa
- Frazier, Soma Mei Sheng
- Gagnon, Michelle
- Gailey, Jeannine Hall
- Gates, Cody
- Gideon, Melanie
- Giles, Molly
- Gill, Caitlin
- Gilmore, Dorina Lazo
- Gold, Heather
- Goldblatt, Gina
- Goldstein, Evan
- Gortner, C. W.
- Gottlieb, Daphne
- Grahn, Judy
- Gray, Amelia
- Green, Geoffrey
- Greer, Andrew Sean
- Gremore, Graham
- Griffin, Sarah Maria
- Grossman, C.J.
- Guskin, Andrea
- Guthman, Julie
- Gutiérrez, José Luis
- Hale, Constance
- Hancock, Nancy
- Handler, Daniel
- Hannibal, Mary Ellen
- Hass, Robert
- Hassman, Tupelo
- Hayes-White, Joanne
- Haynes, Emily
- Henderson, Tim "Toaster"
- Hernandez, Ivan
- Herrera, Juan Felipe
- Herrera, Yuri
- Hertsgaard, Mark
- Hidalgo, Pablo
- Higgins, George
- Hill, Russell
- Hirsch, Jonathan Ikkyu
- Hirshfield, Jane
- Holbert, Bruce
- Hopkins, Ellen
- Hruska, Bronwen
- Hsu, Clara
- Hughes, Patrick
- Hutchins, Scott
- Imhoff, Dan
- Jackson, Corrine
- James, Scott
- Jaramillo, Luis
- Jayne, Hannah
- Jenkins, Joyce
- Johnson, Adam
- Johnson, Maisha Z.
- Jung, Mike
- Kaczynski, Tom
- Kaufman, Alan
- Keats, Jonathon
- Kilmartin, Laurie
- Kim, Alice Sola
- King, Haldane
- Kinsella, Bridget
- Kitchell, M
- Klocek, Joe
- Knapp, Tracey
- Knight, Brenda
- Krasny, Michael
- Kravitz, Scott
- Landy, Joshua
- Larson, Hope
- Lattin, Don
- Lefkowitz, Frances
- Lerner, Sandy
- Lester, David
- Leto, Denise
- Levithan, David
- Lewis, Thomas B.
- Lim, Genny
- Linde, M.D., Paul R.
- Lisick, Beth
- Litquake Live! Streaming
- Littlefield, Sophie
- Lonely Christopher
- Lopez, Erika
- López, Nancy
- Lucianovic, Stephanie V.W.
- Luckett, Jacqueline
- Lutz, Erika
- Lux, Dottie and Red Hots Burlesque
- Lyrics Born
- Ma, Kathryn
- Madonna, Paul
- Mansbach, Adam
- Manyika, Sarah Ladipo
- Maran, Meredith
- MariNaomi
- Marsh, Jason
- Martin, Chelsea
- Martin, Manjula
- Martin, RJ
- Martin, Waldo E. Jr.
- Maxwell, Glyn
- Mayer, Andrew
- Maynard, Joyce
- McClure, Joanna
- McConahay, Mary Jo
- McDonald, Country Joe
- McKee, Colleen
- McLaughlin, Robert Francis
- McPherson, Bryan
- Mechem, Kirke
- Medrich, Alice
- Meidav, Mae Ziglin
- Mell, Sue
- Michael, Myron
- Michel, Deborah
- Midori
- Miller, D. A.
- Mirosevich, Toni
- Moehringer, J.R.
- Mohr, Joshua
- Moon, Janell
- Moor, Indigo
- Moore, LJ
- Moss, Marissa
- Moya, Paula
- Murguía, Alejandro
- Murphy, Annie
- Murphy, Monica
- Myer, Caitlin
- Newark, Elizabeth
- Nicosia, Gerald
- Noorbakhsh, Zahra
- Nosowsky, Ethan
- Nunberg, Geoffrey
- Obenzinger, Hilton
- Olson, Jill
- Omololu, Cynthia (CJ)
- Orozco, Daniel
- Paglen, Trevor
- Painter, Pamela
- Pantera, Pyro
- Parfrey, Adam
- Parr, Todd
- Patel, Sanjay
- Paulson, Ingrid
- Payne, Holly Lynn
- Peele, Thomas
- Peñaranda, Oscar
- Penley, Karen
- Percer, Elizabeth
- Perry, John
- Perry, Matteson
- Peters, Bill
- Petersen, Micaela
- Peterson, Katie
- Pham, Thien
- Phan, Aimee
- Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
- Plaut, Joshua Eli
- Polsky, Richard
- Powell, D.A.
- Purnell, Brontez
- Rabasa, Diego
- Rader, Dean
- Rasberry, Vaughn
- Raskin, Jonah
- Ravine, Jai Arun
- Raymundo, Oscar
- Reid, Allison
- Rhodes, Tom
- Rich, Simon
- Riggsby, Sophie
- Roback, Missy
- Robinson, Christian
- Rollins, Lisa Marie
- Rosen, Rob
- Rosenfeld, Seth
- Ryan, Dylan
- Saffo, Paul
- San José, Sean
- Sanchez, Nancy
- Scheer, Gene
- Scholes, Ken
- Seeley, Tracy
- Segura, Camila
- Serber, Natalie
- Serrano, Nina
- Serros, Michele Marie
- Sharpe, Catherine
- Shaw, The Very Reverend Dr. Jane
- Sheehan, Captain Jim
- Sheppard, Simon
- Shoemaker, Jack
- Silberg, Richard
- Siler, Julia Flynn
- Simmons, Marcia
- Skyye, Ginger
- Slater, Dashka
- Smith, Jean
- Smith, Lois Keaney
- Sohn, Amy
- Solnit, Rebecca
- Sonnenberg, Susanna
- Spotswood, Beth
- Stardust, Andi
- Starr, Lara
- Stead, Rebecca
- Stephens, John
- Stephens, Ransom
- Sterry, David Henry and Arielle Eckstut
- Stewart, Matt
- Stiefvater, Maggie
- Stone, Matty
- Stone, Tamara Ireland
- Stories on Stage
- Straight, Susan
- Streicker, Joel
- Stuckey, Barb
- Sundaralingam, Pireeni
- Sundquist, James
- Surrence, Matthew
- Talbot, David
- Tannenbaum, Judith
- Taylor, Ken
- Tea, Michelle
- Teague, Alexandra
- Tenorio, Lysley
- Terence, Susan
- The Infamous Lit Crawl
- Thompson, Chuck
- Tobar, Hector
- Tomlinson, Max
- Trigg, Nicole
- Tsukiyama, Gail
- Turpin, Angela Lam
- Tuttle, Ian
- Ullman, Ellen
- Vahey, Sean and Jake Godby
- Van Sciver, Noah
- Vixen, Ruby
- Vogel, Marci
- Volz, Alia
- Vossoughi, Siamak
- Wa Ngugi, Mukoma
- wa Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ
- Warner, James
- Warner, Penny
- Wasik, Bill
- Waters, Rayme
- Waxman, Jamye
- Weil, Elizabeth
- White, Arisa
- Whitney, April
- Whitney, Daisy
- Willdorf, Barry
- Williams, Tad
- Wilson, Ronaldo V.
- Winston, Hilary
- Winter, Ariel S.
- Yamazaki, Paul
- Yépez, Heriberto
- Young, Al
- Zapruder, Matthew
- Zeidner, Lisa
