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 →

Kate Folk is the author of the novel Sky Daddy, which received the California Book Awards’ Silver Medal in Fiction and has been longlisted for The Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and The VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her story collection... Read More →

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections, including Sky=Empty which won the New Issues Prize. At Dominican University of California, she directs the MFA program and teaches courses in poetry and live storytelling. A fan of urban hikes, walking as transportation, and... Read More →

Cintia Santana is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023) received the 43rd Annual Northern California Book Award in Poetry, the 2024 IPPY Bronze Medal, the 2023 North American Book Award's Silver... Read More →

Dean Rader is a San Francisco-based poet, essayist, translator and critic. He has authored or co-authored 14 books. His debut collection of poems, Works & Days, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His 2014 collection Landscape Portrait Figure Form was named by The Barnes & Noble... Read More →

Vanessa Hua is a nationally bestselling author of Coyoteland, A River of Stars and Forbidden City, and story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors’ Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as... Read More →

Zach Williams' debut short story collection, Beautiful Days, was a New Yorker Best Book of 2024, a finalist for the 2025 California Book Award for First Fiction, and longlisted for the 2025 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, ... Read More →