Babylon Salon

Bonnie Tsui is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and California Sunday Magazine. She has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Bonnie has also performed numerous times at Pop-Up Magazine and other live storytelling events. She helped to launch F&B: Voices from the Kitchen, a storytelling project from La Cocina that shares stories from cooks and kitchens that are less often heard. She is also her first children’s book, Sarah & the Big Wave, about big-wave women surfers; it will be published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers in spring 2021.

Tomas Moniz edited Rad Dad, Rad Families, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019, he released a chapbook, All Friends Are Necessary, with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel, Big Familia, on Acre Books (which received a STARRED Kirkus review), in November 2019. Big Familia was a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel 2020 Award, a Finalist for a LAMBDA 2020 award for Bisexual Fiction and a Finalist for the Foreword Review Indies Award.

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Art Elliot sings of apocalyptic futures, lost loves, ice ages and Depression-era folk art, among other topics. Born the second son of a carpenter and a singer during the height of The Catastrophe™, Elliot took to his iron horse and rode west at the age of 22. Art has collaborated with a few of the well-known troubadours of Sector 6 including Larry Gallagher, The Dirty Snacks Ensemble, Jack O’ the Clock, and Eli Wise. He currently dwells deep underground in a bunker near what was once known as Oakland, California.