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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 January 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
​Scott James and Gerald Cain
Nion McEvoy and Leslie Berriman
Craig Newmark
Camilla and George Smith
​​​Ellen Ullman Charitable Fund
BENEFACTOR
$5,000–$9,999
Allison-Layman Family Trust
Jared Bhatti
Karyn DiGiorgio and Steve Sattler
Kevin Smokler
Joanne Whitney
PILLAR
$2,500–$4,999
Nancy Calef and Jody Weiner
Evette Davis
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
BergDavis Public Relations
Martha Carter-Bhatti
Frances Dinkelspiel and Gary Wayne
​Patricia and Richard Gibbs
​​Michelle Jeffers
Susan Karp and Paul Haahr
​​The Richard J. Kruger Foundation
Lila LaHood
Susan Moldaw and Robert Stallings
Tina Myers and Benjamin Thompson
Caroline Paul
Lisa Poulson
Patriarca Wang Family Fund of
the Horizons Foundation
Loree and Steve Potash
Danielle Roberts
Greg Sarris
Anne Schukat
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
Diane Carr
​​​​​Tom Collins
Allegra Fisher
Rebecca Foust
Gisele Garraway
​​Jordan Gill
Kate Haug
Jennifer Hobart
Mady Jones
Alka Joshi
Amy Kaminer
Ruth Kaminer
Diana Kapp
Gretchen Kish
Nancy Klehr
Christine Lu and Matt Lee​
Jennifer Lynch
Margaret Lynch
Ana McCracken
Jason Molenda
Jacqueline Murray
​Janis Cooke Newman
Sophia Raday
​Emily Sellers
Margaret Wagner
ICON
$250–$499
Jeannine Acker
Vickie Bowen
​Julia Cope
Debra Cox
​Maura ​Devereux
Sally Durgan
Jennifer Eberhardt
Natasha ElJurdi
Vendela Fehrm
Chris Gembinski
Sandhya Gorman
Pia Hinckle
​​Lisa Hoover
​Cindy Hubert
Beej Jasani
Barbara Kivowitz and Richard Weissberg
Shana Mahaffey
Susan Mattmann
Ryan McGinnis​​​​​
Maryanne McGlothlin
MoER Family Fund
Beatrice Motamedi
Debra Newman
​Kathleen and Charles Piehl
Norah Piehl and Justin Hardy
Natacha Ruck
Reed Schmidt
Marcia Schneider
​​​​Julia Flynn Siler and Charlie Siler
Jeremy Stone
Patricia Suh
Terrence Tierney
Linda Wang
Shantha Wilson
Eric Windmill
Sue Yeh
Ben Zabin
LUMINARY
$150–$249
Anonymous
Emily Alter
Charlie Jane Anders
Nora Rodriguez Camagna
Jeanne Carstensen
Anita Felicelli
Tracy Freedman
Alex Hanna
Joanne Ho
Emma Jin
Milicent Johnson
Mike Kappus
Liz and Gabe Kind
​​Janine and Matt Kovac
Debby Krant and Tamim Ansary
Mimi and Lee Kravetz
Aravind Kumaraguru
Mary Ladd and Oscar Villalon
Marianne Lonsdale
Deborah Marcus
Kate Mitchell and David Cooper
Lori Ostlund
D.A. Powell
Francine Prophet
Elise Proulx
Priscilla Rich
Becka Robbins
Allen Samelson
Samantha Schoech
Dana and Mike Serleth
​​​Amal and Rick Smith
Maggie Smith
Britta Stromeyer
Elaine Tai
Catherine Thorpe
Lindsey Txakeeyang
Brooke Warner
Rina Weisman
​Olga Zilberbourg
CONTRIBUTOR
$100–$149
Anonymous
Sigfrid Anderson-Kwun and
Michael Kwun
Debra and Marc Barach
Melissa Boucher
Andi Chatburn
Christina Diorio
Audrey Esquival
​​​Karen Garrison and David Edelson
Angela Gascho
Sara Goetz
Gravity Goldberg
Charles Haas
Dawn Hatch
Edward Henry
Pia Hinckle
Lauren Howard
Sheri Joseph
Jenna Kade
Shamika Klassen
Kristin Klein and William Donahoe
Joe Lamb
Melissa Livanos
Diane Marcus
Katherine Maslyn
Megan McDonald
Rosie Merlin
David Millard
Jamie Miller
Larry Miller
​Lynda Murtha and Hartmut Gerdes
Ellen and David Newman
Christina Pappas
Laura Peters
Nora Rodriguez Camagna
Alice Rogers
Helmut Schmidt
Jen Siraganian
Geri Spieler
​Neil Stollman
​​​​​​Shruti Swaminathan
Patrick Taffe
Robert Weiner
Angela Welchel
Ariel Weiss
Linda Williams
Jale Yakupoglu
BOOSTER
$50–$99
Josiah Luis Alderete
Eddy Ancinas
Joni Anderson
Deepa Arora
Diana Arterian
Mark Baker
Kim Bender
Leslie Berlin
Marke Bieschke
Bob Bralove
Mark Brunst
Tucker Bryant
Liz Cahill
Felipe Chacon
Jeff Chang
Gillian Conoley
Gabriel Cortez
Amelia Davis
Eyra Dordi
Mark Eisner
Keith Ekiss
Karen Erickson
Linda Tay Esposito
Grant Faulkner
Doug Faunt
Todd Freeman
Jane Ganahl
Camilo Garzon
Aracelis Girmay
Sigrid Hackenberg
Rhyena Halpern
Shawn Harris
Eliet Henderson
Shirley Huey
Joshua Jackson
Jenna Kade
Joseph Kidney
Elisabeth Lagalee
Kiko Lenio
Dina Martin
Manjula Martin
Tina Martin
David Millard
Annalee Newitz
Sabrina Nouri
​Crystal Nwaneri
Russ Osterman
AnDrew Powell
Dean Rader
Jann Ronis
Suzanne Samuel
Kathy Scott
Judith Small
Kevin Stamps
Brandon Taylor
Suzanne Wang
Julia Wertz
Meredith White
Zach Williams
Sharon Wilson
JoAnne Winter
Paul Yamazaki
Tina Yannazzo
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