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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 June 1, 2025 to date.
MUSE
$20,000+
Anonymous
Margaret and William Hearst III
Nicola Miner and Robert Mailer Anderson
The Rock Foundation/Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock
LITERARY ANGEL
$10,000–$19,999
Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Craig Newmark
Camilla and George Smith
Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund
BENEFACTOR
$5,000–$9,999
Anonymous
Reed Schmidt
Joanne Whitney
PILLAR
$2,500–$4,999
Jared Bhatti
Nancy Calef and Jody Weiner
The Hellman Family Fund
Frances Hellman and Warren Breslau
James Kass
Julius and Eleanor Kass Family Fund
Peg Stevenson and Karen Topakian
PATRON
$1,000–$2,499
Anonymous
Maryann and Alex Amado
Evette Davis
Patricia and Richard Gibbs
Michelle Jeffers
Diana Kapp
The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Ana McCracken
Susan Moldaw and Robert Stallings
Tina Myers and Benjamin Thompson
Janis Cooke Newman
Caroline Paul
Lisa Poulson
Olivia Sears
Tracy Stampfli
Frances Stroh
Barbara and Charlie Winton
James Wright
VISIONARY
$500–$999
Anonymous
Betsy Aubrey and Steve Lichtenberg
Joachim Bechtle and Hannah Herzog
Judith Ann Bernhard & Byron
Spooner
Vickie Bowen
Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne
Rebecca Foust
Tracy Freedman
Jordan Gill
Mady Jones
Alka Joshi
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
Nancy Klehr
Lila LaHood
Alissa Lee
Christine Lu and Matt Lee
Jacqueline Luckett
Jennifer Lynch
Margaret Lynch
Jason Molenda
Kathleen and Charles Piehl
Danielle Roberts
Marcia Schneider
Emily Sellers
Terrence Tierney
Margaret Wagner
ICON
$250–$499
Anonymous
Diane Carr
Julia Cope
Maura Devereux
Sally Durgan
Vendela Fehrm
Pia Hinckle
Mike Kappus
Barbara Kivowitz and Richard Weissberg
Debby Krant and Tamim Ansary
Susan Mattmann
Maryanne McGlothlin
Beatrice Motamedi
Debra Newman
Norah Piehl and Justin Hardy
Natacha Ruck
Julia Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Hans Jorg Stahlschmidt
Jeremy Stone
Linda Wang
Shantha Wilson
Eric Windmill
LUMINARY
$150–$249
Anonymous
Poppy Alexander
Charlie Jane Anders
Nora Rodriguez Camagna
Jeanne Carstensen
Anita Felicelli
Alex Hanna
Luis Herrera
Joanna Ho
Emma Jin
Liz and Gabe Kind
Janine and Matt Kovac
Marianne Lonsdale
Deborah Marcus
Katherine Maslyn
Lori Ostlund
D.A. Powell
Tam Putnam
Priscilla Rich
Becka Robbins
Samantha Schoech
Dana and Mike Serleth
Amal and Rick Smith
Maggie Smith
Britta Stromeyer
Elaine Tai
Brooke Warner
Olga Zilberbourg
CONTRIBUTOR
$100–$149
Anonymous
Sigfrid Anderson-Kwun and
Michael Kwun
Melissa Boucher
Andi Chatburn
Pamela Corson
Angela Gascho
Gravity Goldberg
Lauren Howard
Sheri Joseph
Jenna Kade
Kristin Klein and William Donahoe
Mimi and Lee Kravetz
Stephanie Lee
Melissa Livanos
Diane Marcus
David Millard
Larry Miller
Anne Newman
Ellen and David Newman
Rajal Nivargi
Christina Pappas
Bridget Quinn
Alice Rogers
Heather Shane
Jen Siraganian
Geri Spieler
Shruti Swaminathan
Cameron Tuttle
Robert Weiner
Ariel Weiss
Linda Williams
BOOSTER
$50–$99
Josiah Luis Alderete
Joni Anderson
Deepa Arora
Mark Baker
Kim Bender
Marke Bieschke
Jack Boulware
Bob Bralove
Mark Brunst
Felipe Chacon
Jeff Chang
Sydney Clifton
Gillian Conoley
Gabriel Cortez
Amelia Davis
Mark Eisner
Keith Ekiss
Karen Erickson
Grant Faulkner
Doug Faunt
Zoe Francis
Lucy Friedland
Jane Ganahl
Camilo Garzon
Aracelis Girmay
Sara Goetz
Rhyena Halpern
Shawn Harris
Eliet Henderson
Shirley Huey
Elisabeth Lagalee
Kiko Lenio
Bruno Costa Lewicki
Dale Martin
Manjula Martin
Tina Martin
Annalee Newitz
Crystal Nwaneri
Russ Osterman
Tim Peek
Dean Rader
Jann Ronis
Benjamin Russack
Suzanne Samuel
Kathy Scott
Judith Small
Kevin Stamps
Shruti Swaminathan
Patrick Taffe
Brandon Taylor
Judy Vasos
Julia Wertz
Meredith White
Sharon Wilson
JoAnne Winter
Paul Yamazaki
Tina Yannazzo
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