Thaisa Frank’s novel Heidegger’s Glasses, called a “tour de force” by the Huffington Post, has been sold to ten foreign countries. Her next book, Little Rooms for Almost Normal People, will be released in spring 2012.

Marisa Crawford is the author of The Haunted House from the feminist press Switchback Books. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and recently moved to Brooklyn after five glorious years in San Francisco.

Elif Batuman is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times Magazine.

Katie Crouch is The New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Men and Dogs. She has written for London’s Guardian, McSweeney’s, and Tin House. She lives in San Francisco.

Kaya Oakes is the author of Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, and a poetry collection, Telegraph. She teaches at UC Berkeley and is writing a nonfiction book about radical faith.