2011 Writers Conference Speakers

Here is our growing list of authors, agents, editors, publishing professionals and other presenters who will be speaking at the 2011 San Francisco Writers Conference. To find out more about each of them, click on the underlined name.

KEYNOTERS:
Dorothy Allison, bestselling author of Cavedweller and awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
David Morrell, is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created.

PRESENTERS:
Sam Barry, Marketing Manager at HarperOne
Philippa Burgess co-founder of Creative Convergence
Stephanie Chandler, author, online marketing and social networking guru
Ying Chang Compestine, author The Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
Albert Flynn DeSilver, author, internationally published poet, writer, teacher.
Robert Dugoni, author of Wrongful Death
Jane Ganahl, author of Naked On The Page
Diane Gedymin, author of Get Published!
Joan Gelfand, poet and author of A Dreamer's Guide to Cities and Streams
Tanya Egan Gibson , author of How to Buy a Love of Reading
Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax and Wired Style
Brad Henderson, UC Davis professor and poet (co-author of Split Stock)
Victoria Hudson, freelance writer
Kathi Kamen-Goldmark, author of And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
Bharti Kirchner, author of for novel and four cookbooks
Adair Lara, author, columnist and teacher.
Linda Lee, Founder of Askmepc-webdesign & Smart Women Stupid Computers
Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Build Your Name, Beat the Game: Be Happily Published
Lee Lofland, author of Police Procedure and Investigation
Ron Powers, author of Mark Twain: a Life
Wendy Merrill, author of Falling Into Manholes
Douglas Rees, author of Vampire High
Barbara Santos, author of Maui Onion Cookbook and Practice Aloha
Penny Sansevieri , author, Marketing Expert
Robert San Souci, children's book author
Kemble Scott, author of SOMA
Ann Seymour, author of I've Always Loved You, Nob Hill Gazette journalist
Rusty Shelton, Phenix Publicity
Sheldon Siegel, author of Judgment Day
Kevin Smokler, author of Bookmark Now
Elisa Southard, author of Break Through the Noise
Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge
Henry Tenenbaum, Emmy Award winning TV Reporter, Producer, Program host of KRON4's weekend morning news
Wendy Tokunaga, author of Midori by Moonlight
Penny Warner, author of How to Host a Killer Party
Susan Wiggs, author of The Ocean Between us
Fan Wu, author of Beautiful as Yesterday

EDITORS:
Caitlin Alexander, Editor at Random House
Mary Colgan, Editor in the children's division of Chronicle Books
Jane Friedman, Editor at Writers Digest Books
George Gibson, Publisher of Walker Books
Jennifer Joseph, Publisher at Manic D Press
Annette Pollert, Editor at Pocket Books (S&S)
Brenda Knight, Editor at Viva Editions a division of Cleis Press
Jaime Levine, Grand Central Publishing
Margaret O'Neill Marbury, Editor at Mira Books
Lisa Rector-Maass, Editor at Third Draft (NY)
Annette Pollert, Editor at Simon Pulse, YA imprint at Simon & Schuster
Daniela Rapp, Editor at St. Martin's Press
Alan Rinzler, Executive Editor at Jossey-Bass/Wiley & Sons
Kim Robinson, University of California Press
Julie Romeis, Chronicle Books
Jeevan Sivasubramaniam, Berrett-Koehler
Brooke Warner, Editor at Seal Press

AGENTS:
Andrea Brown, Andrea Brown Literary Agency (SF)
Elise Capron, Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency (LA)
Minju Chang, Bookstop Literary (Santa Rosa)
Verna Dreisbach, Dreisbach Literary Management (Sacramento)
April Eberhardt, Reece Halsey North (SF/NY/Paris)
Stephany Evans, Fine Print Literary Management (NY)
Wendy Keller, Keller Media (LA)
Michael Larsen, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (SF)
Jill Marsal, Marsal Lyon Literary Agency
Donald Maass, Donald Maass Literary Agency (NY)
Laurie McLean, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agency (SF)
Elizabeth Pomada, Larsen/Pomada Literary Agents (SF)
Laura Rennert, Andrea Brown Literary (Palo Alto)
Andy Ross, Andy Ross Literary Agency (SF)
Meg Ruley, Jane Rotrosen Agency (NY)
Katharine Sands, Sarah Jane Freymann Agency (NY)
Adam Schear , DeFiore and Company (NY)
Robert Shepard, Robert Shepard Agency (LA & SF)
Ken Sherman, Ken Sherman & Associates (LA)
Rebecca Strauss, agent and director of Subsidiary Rights at McIntosh & Otis, Inc.
Ted Weinstein, Ted Weinstein Literary Management (SF & NY)
Christine Witthohn, agent at Book Sense Literary Agency (WV)

This list is subject to change without notice.

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