As a teacher of creative writing at both San Francisco State University and Stanford, where she was a Stegner Fellow, Alice LaPlante knows how to…
SB Stokes has a long, complicated relationship with poetry. This week, at the age of 44, the Hayward-born son of two Oakland natives celebrates the…
No one claims to have invented poetry. There is poetry in every people and in every language. Jazz, though, was made in America. “Jazz, it…
Last year, Baruch Porras-Hernandez left his position as patron services manager of Magic Theater, where he worked for nine years, to focus on his own…
Founded by Trungpa Rinpoche in 1974, Colorado’s Naropa University is the first fully accredited Buddhist-inspired university in the United States. The school is world famous…
On Saturday, more than 90 bookstores across the state will celebrate the inaugural California Bookstore Day with readings and signings, cocktail hours, food trucks and…
Kathryn Ma was well into a successful career as a partner in a busy San Francisco litigation practice when she started writing fiction in her…
Justin, Etc. and Jason Schenheit met through the creative writing department of San Francisco State University, though they never had a class together. The two…
Twenty-one years ago, Paul Corman-Roberts left Las Vegas for San Francisco, hoping to reconcile a troubled relationship and build a career in theater. But he…
With a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in creative writing, Alexandra Kostoulas has had many teachers and learned many approaches to writing, but of…