James Dalessandro
JAMES DALESSANDO, was the co-founder of the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival, the nation’s largest literary event for four years and which brought together Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Allen…
Fork in the Road
by Cheryl McLaughlin It was one of those third-shift nights. I was done with the busyness of the day and the silence of nighttime surrounded me like a huge bubble—that…
Reading Series
MONDAY May 8, 2006 Left Coast WritersTM Reading and Networking, 6pm Book Passage, Ferry Plaza, San Francisco, CA For info: leftcoastwriters@aol.com
John Flinn
With articles ranging from experiencing the culture shock of Japan and chronicling the lives of survivors of Hiroshima, to choosing the world’s worst airport, finding solitude in Tahoe’s Emerald Bay,…
Kevin Smokler
Kevin Smokler is one of the nation’s leading thinkers on the future of contemporary literature, publishing and the arts at large. He is the founder of The Virtual Book Tour…
Jennifer Leo
 Jennifer L. Leo is a Chinese-American who was born with a gift for gab and a hunger for an everlasting craps game (which probably explains her recent move to…
Firoozeh Dumas
Firoozeh Dumas moved with her family from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California, at the age of seven. With great humor and a sense of adventure, Dumas chronicles the American journey…
Georgia I. Hesse
Georgia I. Hesse was founding travel editor of the San Francisco Examiner and held that position on the S.F. Examiner-Chronicle for 20 years. She has contributed to several anthologies, is…
Sheldon Siegel
Sheldon Siegel graduated from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He has been in private practice in San Francisco for over…
Larry Habegger
Larry Habegger, executive editor of Travelers’ Tales, has been writing about travel since 1980. He has visited almost fifty countries and six of the seven continents, traveling from the frozen…