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OUR DONORS
Litquake is grateful for the continuing support from the Bay Area’s vibrant community of writers, readers, and fans of the written word.
Donors listed below have given from October 1, 2024 to date.
MUSE
$20,000+
​Anonymous
Margaret and William Hearst III
​Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
LITERARY ANGEL
$10,000–$19,999
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
​Scott James and Gerald Cain
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Craig Newmark
The Rock Foundation/Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock
​​​Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund
BENEFACTOR
$5,000–$9,999
Allison-Layman Family Trust
Jared Bhatti
Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler
​Greg Sarris
Kevin Smokler
PILLAR
$2,500–$4,999
Nancy Calef and Jody Weiner
Evette Davis
Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne
The Hellman Family Fund
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
James Kass
Julius and Eleanor Kass Family Fund
Peg Stevenson and Karen Topakian
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PATRON
$1,000–$2,499
Anonymous
​Maryann and Alex Amado
Antoinette Baker
BergDavis Public Relations
Martha Carter-Bhatti
​​​​​​​​Anne Germanacos
​Patricia and Richard Gibbs
​​Michelle Jeffers
Susan Karp and Paul Haahr
​​The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Lila LaHood
​Susan Moldaw
Sara Newmann and Doug Sovern​​
Caroline Paul​
Patriarca Wang Family Fund of
the Horizons Foundation
Loree and Steve Potash
Marcia Schneider​
Olivia Sears
​Tracy Stampfli
Frances Stroh
Barbara and Charlie Winton
James Wright
VISIONARY
$500–$999
Betsy Aubrey and Steve Lichtenberg
Joachim Bechtle
Judith Ann Bernhard & Byron
Spooner
Diane Carr
​​​​​Tom Collins
Allegra Fisher
Rebecca Foust
Gisele Garraway
​​Jordan Gill
Jennifer Hobart
Mady Jones
Alka Joshi
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer​
Diana Kapp
Gretchen Kish
Nancy Klehr
Jennifer Lynch
Margaret Lynch
Ana McCracken
Jason Molenda
Jacqueline Murray
Tina Myers and Benjamin Thompson
​Janis Cooke Newman
Lisa Poulson
​Danielle Roberts
Emily Sellers
Jeremy Stone
Margaret Wagner
ICON
$250–$499
​Vickie Bowen
​Louise and Arthur Conner
Julia Cope
Debra Cox
​Maura ​Devereux
Deborah Doyle
Jennifer Eberhardt
Natasha ElJurdi
Angela Engel
Britta Stromeyer Esmail
Vendela Fehrm
Tracy Freedman
Chris Gembinski
​Andy and Rick Goldman
​Aaron Hobson
Lisa Hoover
​Cindy Hubert
Beej Jasani
Christine Lu and Matt Lee​Shana Mahaffey
​Susan Mattmann
Ryan McGinnis​​​​​
Maryanne McGlothlin
Lilliana Mendez-Soto
MoEr Family Fund
Laura & Philipp Muessig
Martha Neal
​Debra Newman
Kathleen and Charles Piehl
Norah Piehl & Justin Hardy
Michael Pincus
Elise Proulx
Radhika Rao
Lisa Saffran
​​​​Julia Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Kim Teevan
Dora Wang
Shantha Wilson
Sue Yeh
Ben Zabin
LUMINARY
$150–$249
Emily Alter
Joni Anderson
Kristin Aw
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Roberto Haro
Milicent Johnson
Mike Kappus
​​Janine and Matt Kovac
Debby Krant and Tamim Ansary
Mimi and Lee Kravetz
Aravind Kumaraguru
Tony Laidig
Marianne Lonsdale
Analee Newitz
Lori Ostlund
Doug Powell
Tam Putnam
Becka Robbins
Natacha Ruck
Allen Samelson
​Mark Schlagenhauf
Jane Smiley
Catherine Thorpe
Terrence Tierney
Adrian Tomine
Lindsey Txakeeyang
Rina and Jacob Wiseman
​Olga Zilberbourg
CONTRIBUTOR
$100–$149
Anonymous
Leslie Absher
Sigfrid Anderson-Kwon and
Michael Kwon
Ariel Balter
Debra and Marc Barach
Julie Barton
Alison Bing
​Matt Bissinger
​Anita Bloch
Miles Ceralde
Hannah Darst
Jasmin Darznik
Donna Davis
Christina Diorio
Marilee Enge and George Frost
Melissa Eizenberg and Adam Diamant
Audrey Esquival
​​​Karen Garrison and David Edelson
Angela Gascho
Sara Goetz
Gravity Goldberg
​Louise Gregory
Charles Haas
Dawn Hatch
Edward Henry
​​Luis Herrera
Pia Hinckle
Lauren Howard
Vanessa Hua
Sheri Joseph
Kristin Keane
​Andrew Keeler
Shamika Klassen
Kristine Klein and William Donahoe
Ryan Kotler
Joe Lamb
Tania Malik
Diane Marcus
Tina Martin
​Craig Mautner
Megan McDonald
John McMurtrie
Rosie Merlin
Eliska Meyers
Jennifer Millar
Michael Montgomery
​Lynda Murtha and Hartmut Gerdes
​Lori Narlock
Ellen and David Newman
Margie O'Driscoll
Claire Oldani
Christina Pappas
Laura Peters
Priscilla Rich
Ethel Rohan
Helmut Schmidt
Dana and Mike Serleth
​Heather Shane
James Shearer
Jen Siraganian
​​​Amal and Rick Smith
​Neil Stollman
​​​​​​Shruti Swaminathan
Patrick Taffe
Brooke Warner
Robert Weiner
​Anne Wilbur
​Jennifer Winch
Jale Yakupoglu
Samantha Zeitlin
BOOSTER
$50–$99
Frances Adams
Claudette Allison
Karen Sprinkel Ancelet
Eddy Ancinas
Lucy Bernholz
Katherine Bickford
Lisa Brickman
​​Susan Brunig
Lukas Bundonis
Karla Brundage
Katie Burke
Nora Rodriguez Camagna
Kelly Clancy
Ilene Diamond
Jean-Claude Ellena
Zoe Elton
Anita Felicelli
Yalitza Ferrerras
​Zoe Francis
Todd Freeman
Forrest Gander
​Parker Gibbs
​Sara Goetz
Glen David Gold
Harriet Heydemann
Brenda Hillman
Heiki Hiss
Rachel Howard
Yeva Johnson
Jenna Kade
Pete Kirsheman
Alan Lanee
Andrew Leong
Rachel Levin
Dong Li
Hannah Lincecum
Kathryn Ma and Sanford Kingsley
Emil Margolis
Katherine Maslyn
Maudie McCormick
Steven Meloan
​​Lindsey and Ken Meyersieck
David Millard
Jessica Millett
Josh Mohr
Kannan Namrata
Adam Nimoy
​Ethan Nosowsky
​Prasant Nukalapati
Brandon Paluzzi
Janet Parker
Katherine Perry
Minnie Phan
Sophia Raday
Maya Rath and Jonathan Ring
Lakshmi Rebbapragada
Narasu Rebbapragada
Robin Rose
​Brenda Salguero
Carla Schick
Regina Schwartz
Barbara Selhorst
Jesus Francisco Sierra
Beth Spotswood
Britta Stromeyer
Rana Tahir
Adrienne Torf
​Bonnie Tsui
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