Here is our growing list of authors, agents, editors, publishing professionals and other presenters who will be speaking at the 2022 San Francisco Writers Conference. We’re adding more all the time, so do check back here occasionally. To find out more about each of them, click on the underlined name.
The presenters are in categories: Presenters (including authors), Agents, and Editors.
Please scroll down to see all of them.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Lysley Tenorio is the author of the novel The Son of Good Fortune and the story collection Monsters, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Whiting Award, a Stegner fellowship, the Edmund White Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Ploughshares, and have been adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the Ma-Yi Theater in New York City. The Son of Good Fortune is being developed into a comedy series by Riz Ahmed and Lulu Wang for Amazon, and Tenorio is currently a 2021-22 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, where he is working on a novel. Born in the Philippines, he lives in San Francisco, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s College of California.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy, which came out in April 2021. Up next: Never Say You Can’t Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times; and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney’s, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, “Go Ahead, Dream About the Future” got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Annalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the book Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, and the novels The Future of Another Timeline, and Autonomous, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist, they are a writer for the New York Times and elsewhere, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post, Slate, Popular Science, Ars Technica, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of io9, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo
PRESENTERS
Josiah Luis Alderete, poet, activist
Nina Amir, author and writing coach
Jim Azevedo, Draft2Digital
Benjamin Bac-Sierra, author, professor, activist
Ken Bebelle, speculative fiction author
Jordan Bernal, author and past president of CWC Tri-Valley Branch
Kiffer Brown, founder of Chanticleer Reviews & Media, OnWord Talks podcast & OnWord magazine
Steven E. Browne, author, editor, producer
Carole Bumpus, travel/food writer
James Cagney, poet
Stephanie Chandler, author and CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association
Jeff Chang, author
Mike Chen, speculative fiction author
Paula Chinick, author and past president of California Writers Club Tri-Valley Branch
Amanda Clay, mystery/suspense/thriller novelist
Elise Marie Collins, lifestyle author
Davey D, author, activist
Jenee Darden, poet, activist, filmmaker, journalist
E.J. DeBrun, animator and storyteller
Nicia De’Lovely, poet, activist
Sue Dyer, author, thought leader
Taryn Edwards, Strategic Partnerships Manager and Historian, Mechanics’ Institute of San Francisco
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Poet Laureate of San Francisco
Martha Engber, author, speaker
Kate Farrell, storyteller and author
Matthew Felix, author, marketer, podcaster, editor, teacher
Joey Garcia, author, book coach, editor and TV personality
Tiny Gray-Garcia, publisher, poet, activist
Miah Jeffra, author, activist
Julienne Jobs, news producer, journalist
Dr. Andy Jones, poet and Pub Quiz Host
Elisabeth Kauffman, indie editor and SFWC Marketing Director
Carla King, author, publishing coach, founder of SelfPubBootCamp
Mary E. Knippel, independent editor, writing mentor, and author
C. S. Lakin, author, copy-editor, and writing coach
Rocky Lang, author, producer, director, screenwriter
Linda Lee, website/WordPress expert, SFWC Volunteer Director
Louise Marley/Louisa Morgan, speculative fiction author
Tim McCanna, picture book author
Kendra Murray, audiobook producer
Lissa Provost, poet, author, SFWC Operations Director
Douglas Rees, children’s book author
OG Rev (aka Reverend Harry Louis Williams II), activist, author, street preacher
Jordan Rosenfeld, author, editor, and coach
Penny Sansevieri, marketing expert
Barbara Santos, author, SFWC Partnerships Director
Ralph Scott, Squeaky Cheese Productions audiobook producer
Rusty Shelton, author brand guru, Founder & CEO of Zilker Media
Kevin Smokler, author, performer, and public speaker
Sharon Spaulding, feminist historian and essayist
Kevin Tumlinson, Draft2Digital
Kimberly Unger, science fiction author, VR & metaverse tech expert
Julia Vee, speculative fiction author
Karlee Vincent, blogger for the Today Show and essayist
Alia Volz, nonfiction author
Lyzette Wanzer, author, instructor, coach
Bruce Wawrzyniak, publicist
Audrey Williams, author, poet, activist
Mozes Zarate, SF Chronicle Datebook assistant editor
Paul Zeidman, screenwriter and actor
Sue Zizza, audio producer, director, writer and sound designer
AGENTS
Lisa Abellera, Kimberley Cameron Associates
Michael Carr, Veritas Literary
Karly Dizon, Fuse Literary
* Laurie Fox, Linda Chester Agency
Paul S. Levine, Paul S. Levine Literary Agency (also entertainment attorney)
Laurie McLean, Fuse Literary and Director of SFWC
Tisha Morris, Morris Entertainment (also entertainment attorney)
* Liz Parker, Verve Talent & Literary
Andy Ross, Andy Ross Agency
Gordon Warnock, Fuse Literary
*Ted Weinstein, Ted Weinstein Literary Management
* These agents are not participating in Speed Dating
ACQUIRING EDITORS/INDEPENDENT EDITORS
Jacquelin Cangro, indie editor
Diane Frank, Blue Light Press
B. Lynn Goodwin, indie editor
Jennifer Joseph, Manic D Press
Brenda Knight, Mango Press
Mary E. Knippel, indie editor
Monique Muhlenkamp, New World Library (Publicity Director)
Lissa Provost, New Alexandria Creative Group
Mary Rakow, indie editor
Lisa Regul, Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House
Jill Roberts, Tachyon Publications
Suzanne Sherman, indie editor
Kristen Tate, indie editor
Wendy Tokunaga, indie editor
Brooke Warner, She Writes Press/Spark Press
Jacob Weisman, Tachyon Publications
Monica Wesolowska, indie editor