Litquake 2026

Graham Todd is a fiction writer and the Artistic Director of Litquake, San Francisco's Literary Festival. He studied literature and religion at Stanford and received his MFA from Bowling Green. His writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Southampton Review, Notre Dame Review, Epiphany... Read More →

Rucy Cui is a writer from San Jose, California, who has also called Texas, Wyoming, and the south of France home. Her stories appear in The Georgia Review and other publications, where they’ve been recognized with the Barry Hannah Prize and the Bennington Fiction Prize. Her nonfiction appears in Lonely Planet. A 2024–26 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she has received support from Hedgebrook, Monson Arts, Ucross Fo... Read More →

Cristina Fríes is a Colombian-American fiction writer based in San Francisco, CA. Her work engages with the literary “unreal,” including magical realism, surrealism, fabulism, horror, and the gothic, often exploring women’s experiences and feminist themes. She has written a... Read More →

William Lohier is a PhD Student at Berkeley from Brooklyn, New York. His short story collection, Black Star Line, is forthcoming from Simon and Schuster in March 2027.