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ALEJANDRO MURGUIA is the author of Southern Front, a short story collection about the Chicano internationalists in Nicaragua, which received an American Book Award in 1991. This War Called Love, Nine Stories was also honored with an American Book Award in 2002. He is working on a new collection of short stories, Tropic Noir.
JIM NISBET has published eight novels and five volumes of poetry. His novels include The Gourmet (aka The Damned Don’t Die), Lethal Injection, Death Puppet, Prelude to a Scream, The Price of the Ticket, and his latest, The Syracuse Codex. He lives in San Francisco where he operates the design firm Electronics Furniture.
PETER PLATE is a self-taught fiction writer and former squatter in the Mission district of San Francisco. His books address the history and geography of inner-city life. His latest novel is Fogtown.
SIN SORACCO was born at St. Luke’s Hospital in the Mission district of San Francisco. She makes up her life from whatever’s around-if there’s nothing handy, she goes somewhere else. The center remains steady: the intense visceral pleasure of stories. She says, “One day our stories will bring the bastards down.”
DOMENIC STANSBERRY is known for his dark, innovative crime novels, including his award-winning North Beach mysteries, The Last Days of Il Duce and Chasing the Dragon. Stansberry is also the author of The Confession, a “modern noir shocker” that has been hailed as the vanguard of the neo-pulp renaissance. He has been nominated three times for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
DAVID HENRY STERRY is both writer of and performer in a one-man show based on his memoir Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent. His next book will be Putting Your Passion into Print. He has worked as a chicken, chicken fryer, a Hollywood screenwriter, a cherry picker, a sitcom actor, a poet, a stand-up comic (at Holy City Zoo, Cobb’s, and Sutro Bathhouse), a barker (at the Garden of Eden on Broadway in San Francisco), and a marriage counselor.
MICHELLE TEA is cofounder of the legendary all-girl spoken word road show known as Sister Spit. She has contributed to many fiction anthologies and written several acclaimed novels, the most recent of which was a collaboration with illustrator Laurenn McCubbin, titled Rent Girl. Her first collection of poetry, The Beautiful, was released in 2004 by Manic D Press and she curates a reading series called SF Radar at the San Francisco Main Library.
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