Co-founder. A cultural worker who writes nonfiction and poetry. Her writing focuses on her working-class Irish American heritage and the oppression of peoples worldwide. Working on a memoir of her Irish family in the Pennsylvania coal mines.

Grew up in London, escaped Thatcher's England for the USA in 1981, and settled in San Francisco in 2002. Author of four novels and two nonfiction books. Lives within earshot of the Golden Gate foghorns.

Poet and editor. Co-editor of the Haight Ashbury Literary Journal since 1984. Blue Light Book Award winner for Mural. Active with the Gray Panthers and the CWA.

Grew up on a farm in rural Wisconsin, studied Scholastic Philosophy, worked for social change in Minneapolis, then joined Local Union 510 in San Francisco. Since retiring in 2007 he gardens organically and walks at Candlestick Park.

Joined in 2005. Her poetry and fiction are rooted in community and labor history.

Born in Greenwich Village, raised in Queens. Air Force veteran, SF State journalism graduate. Copy editor, sports columnist, and poet.

Born in the Bronx, raised in Westchester. She explores the moments when collective life and inner life converge — through poetry, nonfiction, memoir, and solo performance.