Litquake Year-Round 2019

Lourdes Figueroa was born in Yuba City, California during a trip her parents made from Mexico to the USA when they worked in the campo tilling the soil for tomatoes. Lourdes is a proud 2009 and 2011 VONA alum.  Her work has been published in the SF Poet’s 11 2008 & 2010 an Anthology... Read More →

Sanjana Shukla is a vocalist, theatre artist, and Bay Area native who strives to highlight diasporic experiences and voices through her work. 

Baruch Porras Hernandez is the author of the chapbooks “I Miss You, Delicate” and “Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle” both with Sibling Rivalry Press. He had the honor of touring with the legendary Sister Spit Queer poetry tour with Radar Productions in 2019, is a is a two-time... Read More →

Maggie Tokuda-Hall is the author of the Parent's Choice Gold Medal winning book, Also an Octopus. She has books forthcoming from Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press and Harper Collins. She's also the host of the animal facts podcast, Drunk Safari. Her dog is objectively perfect.

Josiah Luis Alderete is a full blooded Pocho spanglish speaking poet from La Area Bahia who learned to write poetry in the kitchen of his Mama’s Mexican restaurant. He was a founding member of San Francisco's outspoken word troupe The Molotov Mouths and is also a radio insurgente... Read More →

Camilo Villa is a Colombian artist, poet, and educator based in Oakland, California. He has performed in venues, such as Lit quake, The Queer Open Mic and Donde esta mí gente.  Camilo holds a Fine Arts Degree with a minor in Social Action & Public Forms from the California College... Read More →