JON LONGHI is the author of five books: Bricks and Anchors, The Rise and Fall of Third Leg, Everyone at the Funeral Was Slam Dancing, Flashbacks and Premonitions, and Wake Up and Smell the Beer. He has been published in numerous anthologies and has performed his work throughout the United States in cafés, bookstores, libraries, and nightclubs. He lives in San Francisco.
ALVIN LU was born in San Francisco. He wrote the “City God” column for the San Francisco Bay Guardian for several years and is also the author of a novel, The Hell Screens, published by Four Walls Eight Windows.
PETER MARAVELIS has been a bookseller for over fifteen years. He is currently the events coordinator for City Lights Bookstore. He was born and raised in San Francisco where he currently lives.
EDDIE MULLER is a native San Franciscan and author of three popular studies of noir: Dark City, Dark City Dames, and The Art of Noir. He is a multiple Edgar and Anthony Award nominee, and the recipient of the Shamus Award for Best First Novel (The Distance). He is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the rescue and preservation of “lost” and damaged noir films.
ALEJANDRO MURGUÍA 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.
