Category Archives: SF Bay Area

Maya Khosla is a wildlife biologist and served as the Poet Laureate of Sonoma County from 2018 to 2020. Her Legacies Project brought Sonoma poets and students together in film. Her poems have been featured in documentary films, nominated for Pushcart Prizes and featured in The Literary Review, River Teeth, Poem, and other journals. Her books are All theContinue reading “Maya Khosla”

Jing Jing Yang is the first immigrant Cupertino Poet Laureate (2020 – 2022), a grand winner of the city-wide Celebrate Creativity Poetry Contest 2017, with her poem “Logograph” in memory of her grandfather, Yang Shuda (the master philologist of Chinese language and a mentor of Mao Zedong). Her English and Chinese writings have been featured inContinue reading “Jing Jing Yang “

Amy Glynn is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Her first poetry collection, A Modern Herbal, was published in 2013 by Measure Press; her second, Romance Language, is forthcoming in early 2020. She has received the Carolyn Kizer Award from Poetry Northwest, the SPURContinue reading “Amy Glynn “

Elise Kazanjian is a San Francisco poet/writer who spent her childhood in Tian Jin, China. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fog And Light: San Francisco Through The Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here (2021); Marin Poetry Center 2021 Anthology; New Millennium Writings; and the San Francisco Examiner among others. She has workedContinue reading “Elise Kazanjian”

Flo Oy Wong, artist/poet/educator, and a daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born and raised in Oakland California’s Chinatown. Becoming aware of poetry at the age of 9 she later attended the University of California, Berkeley as an English major. When she graduated, she became an elementary school teacher. At the age of 40, she beganContinue reading “Flo Oy Wong”

Born and raised in Virginia, Hilary King has lived in Nashville, Atlanta and now the Bay Area of California. She has been active in the arts for many years. In Atlanta, she created a website and cable show called “Arts in Atlanta” to showcase local artists. She went on to co-found Atlanta Women in Theatre and theContinue reading “Hilary King”

Coco Peezy has been reading and writing poetry since 7th grade. By day she is a high school English teacher in San Mateo County. In her free time, she is usually surfing or hiking with her dog, Huckleberry. For more of her poetry, you can find her first book, Coastal, anywhere books are sold.  Poems onContinue reading “Coco Peezy”