Wednesday October 21, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm PDT
Speakers 
Alyson Sagala is a writer from San Jose, CA currently based in Mendocino County. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast Writer’s Conference, Kearny Street Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers Grotto. She is currently working on her first novel.
Bianca Datta (she/her) grew up in Maryland and has lived in San Francisco for the past four years. Formally, she trained as a scientist (studying the colors of butterfly wings) and now works on sustainable foods. She is a 2026 Fellow of the Writer's Grotto Rooted and Written program...
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Brandon Vu is an educator in the Bay Area. He was a season 22 member of AWP’s Writer-to-Writer Program and was a finalist for the 2025 Goldline Press Chapbook Competition. Additionally, he was a finalist for the 2026 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. His work has appeared in...
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Leslie V. Nguyen-Okwu is a Vietnamese Nigerian American writer and journalist with bylines in The New York Times, BBC, National Geographic, The Economist, and Harper's Bazaar. She has received fellowships and residencies from the Aspen Institute’s Summer Words, Hedgebrook, Tin House...
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Mai-Linh Hong is a Vietnamese American refugee poet and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection, Continental Drift, won the 2025 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in July 2026. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Waxwing, Ploughshares, Copper Nickel, Wildness...
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May-Li Khoe (they/she) is a queer interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer, born in the Netherlands to Chinese-Indonesian immigrant parents and raised in Vancouver, Canada. In the past, she invented new ways for people and computers to interact, many of which you probably use...
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Monica Korde is a poet and artist from India based in California. She served as Poet Laureate of Belmont (2021–2025) and is the city’s first South Asian immigrant to hold the role. Founder of Project POETRY 360, Monica centers the voices of bipoc, queer, youth, and immigrant artists...
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As a besharam (shameless) brown, queer, disabled woman, Neha M. Sampat centers life on multiple margins through her speaking, writing, creating, and acting up. Their poetry, essays, insight, and art are featured in values-aligned publications and exhibits including The B'K Magazine...
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Rose Wong is Chinese writer and journalist from Hong Kong and Vancouver, Canada and a MFA in Creating Writing candidate at St. Mary’s College of California. Her writing has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Cordella Magazine, Pile Press, the Oregonian, and the Tampa Bay Times...
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Vina Vo is a storyteller, facilitator, and organizer who bridges the cultural and geographic divide caused by displacement and diaspora. Her professional and community work revolve around creating and nurturing communities of belonging through storytelling, interactive learning experiences...
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Wednesday October 21, 2026 6:30pm - 7:30pm
PDT
Arc Gallery
1246 Folsom St, San Francisco
