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lang="EN">Books authored by residents of California and published during the 2024 calendar year may be submitted between August 15 and November 15 for consideration for the California Book Awards.<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Please use the following submission form: </span><a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commonwealthclub.org%2Fcontact%2Fcalifornia_book_awards_entry_for&data=01%7C01%7Clrobertson%40pfd.co.uk%7C910aac59bbcb49083b8d08d64bf3938a%7Cf6147f763d0c48e2a3b563cc42e26bb4%7C0&sdata=BGPt8LU5lg5Fa3bGM0ScOVzq6YvtakjN%2Bw%2B1LYO%2FDeo%3D&reserved=0"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">2024 Submissions</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none;"></span></o:p></u></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Books received without the submission form filled out, will not be considered.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">After completing the form, please ship 6 copies of each submitted book to the address below:<o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><strong>USPS<o:p></o:p></strong></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Commonwealth Club World Affairs</span><br><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Attn: California Book Awards </span><br><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">110 The Embarcadero</span><br><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">San Francisco, CA 94105</span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><strong>UPS/FEDEX<o:p></o:p></strong></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Commonwealth Club World Affairs </span><br><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Attn: California Book Awards</span><br><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">115 Steuart St.</span><br><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">San Francisco, CA 94105 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><strong>WE ACCEPT</strong></span></p> <ul> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Books in the categories of Fiction, First Work of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Juvenile (to age 12), Young Adult, Californiana, and Contribution to Publishing</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Work must have been written by authors living in California at the time their work was published or submitted for publication.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">To be eligible for Californiana, the work must deal with a California-based issue, topic, or historical period.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">To be eligible for Contribution to Publishing, the publisher must be a California resident.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">To be eligible for Juvenile, the author must be a California resident. Illustrators can live out-of-state.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">To be eligible for First Work of Fiction, the work must be the author’s first fictional effort. Previously published short story collections will disqualify an author from the First Work of Fiction category; however, the author can still submit for the Fiction category.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Short story collections and essays by the same author will be accepted for consideration under the Fiction category.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">If certain stories in the short story or essay collection have been published previously, the work may still be submitted for consideration. Eligibility is at the discretion of the jury.</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> </ul> <h3 style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:5.0pt;margin-left:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-top:0in;page-break-after:auto;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><strong>WE DO NOT ACCEPT<o:p></o:p></strong></span></h3> <ul> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Self-published works</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Works from a publishing house that does not have some sort of vetting process</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">E-books</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Guidebooks or manuals</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">“As told to” books</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Anthologies from multiple authors</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Works by dual authors, unless both authors are California residents</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Translations of deceased authors or older works</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="background-color:white;margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Reprints of books published in previous years</span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </li> </ul> <p style="background-color:white;"><span style="color:black;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Please direct any questions regarding the Book Awards to: <a href="mailto:bookawards@commonwealthclub.org">bookawards@commonwealthclub.org</a></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span> <span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><a href="/events/special-events/california-book-awards/awards-history"><span style="color:#006AB6;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Click to learn more about the awards</span></a></p> <h3 style="margin-top:14.0pt;page-break-after:auto;"><span style="color:#282A2A;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"><strong>CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS JURY<o:p></o:p></strong></span></h3> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Christopher Chen is an associate professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Chen has published articles, poetry, interviews and reviews in </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">boundary 2</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Post45 Contemporaries</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">1913: A Journal of Forms</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Los Angeles Review of Books</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The New Inquiry</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">. He is the author of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Bloomsbury, 2022), a comparative study of contemporary Black and Asian North American experimental poetry. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Roy Eisenhardt is a lecturer at UC Berkeley and USF schools of law. He is a former attorney, president of the Oakland Athletics and executive director of the California Academy of Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Peter Fish is a San Francisco-based writer, editor and teacher. For many years travel editor of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Sunset</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> magazine, he now writes regularly for the </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">San Francisco Chronicle</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Via</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Coastal Living</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> and other publications. In fall of 2018 he was Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University; he currently teaches travel and nature writing for Stanford Continuing Studies. His fiction has appeared most recently in </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Sewanee Review</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Kelly Loy Gilbert is the author of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Conviction</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, a finalist for the Morris Award; </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Picture Us in the Light</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, a California Book Award winner and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Los Angeles Times</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> Book Prize Finalist; and, most recently, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">When We Were Infinite</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">. She writes and occasionally teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Gravity Goldberg is the director of public programs and visitor experience at The Contemporary Jewish Museum. She sits on the advisory board for the Litquake Literary Festival, and is the co-founder of Instant City: A Literary Exploration of San Francisco. She lives in San Francisco with her brilliant husband and fluff ball of a cat.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Mary Ellen Hannibal is a journalist and author, most recently of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">. It received a Nautilus Book Award and was named one of the best books of 2016 by the </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">San Francisco Chronicle</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Gordon Jack is the author of two young adult novels, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Boomerang Effect</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (HarperTeen, 2016) and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Your Own Worst Enemy</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (HarperTeen, 2018). When he’s not writing books, he’s recommending them as librarian at Los Altos High School, where he’s worked since 1995.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Scott James is an Emmy-winning veteran journalist whose work has appeared in </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The New York Times</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">. His most recent book is </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Trial by Fire: A Devastating Tragedy, 100 Lives Lost, and a 15-Year Search for Truth</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, which reopened the investigation into one of America’s deadliest criminal cases. </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Trial by Fire</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> won the 2021 top prize for nonfiction from the New England Society Book Awards, plus was the subject of an episode of the CBS News program “48 Hours.” James is also the author of the two bestselling novels </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">SoMa</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Sower</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, both written under the pen name Kemble Scott.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Evan Karp is the founding director of Quiet Lightning and events manager for Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters. He’s written literary columns for the </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">San Francisco Chronicle</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, KQED, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">SF Weekly</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">SF/Arts</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Rumpus</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and his nonfiction and poetry have appeared widely in print and online. Evan has released three albums combining music, words and other sounds, two with his brother Miles as Turk & Divis and one with Maw Shein Win as Vata & the Vine.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Nathalie Khankan is the author of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Quiet Orient Riot</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, published by Omnidawn in 2020, recipient of the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. She was the founding director of the Danish House in Palestine and now teaches Arabic language and literature at UC Berkeley.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Maya Makker (she/her) grew up in the Central Valley and studied at UC Davis. She has worked as an educator in art, history, and science museums, and is passionate about telling diverse stories in our cultural institutions. Her love of books and collaborating with youth led her to 826 Valencia, where she now works as the communications manager.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Madison McCartha is a poet, critic, and multimedia artist whose debut book of poetry and visual art, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Freakophone World</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, was published by Inside the Castle in 2021. Their second book, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Cryptodrone Sequence</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, is forthcoming from Black Ocean. McCartha holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame, and is a Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. McCartha's writing can be found in </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Black Warrior Review</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Bomb</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Denver Quarterly</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">jubilat</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Spectacle</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Sarah Rosenthal is the author of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Estelle Meaning Star</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Chax, forthcoming); </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Operating System, 2019, a collaboration with Valerie Witte); </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Lizard</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Chax, 2016); and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Manhatten</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Spuyten Duyvil, 2009), as well as numerous chapbooks. She edited </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Dalkey Archive, 2010). Her film </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">We Agree on the Sun</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> has received screenings and awards from numerous film festivals, including Best Experimental Short at the 2021 Berlin Independent Film Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Scott Saul is a historian and critic who has written for </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The New York Times</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Harper's</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Nation</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and other publications. He is the author of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Becoming Richard Pryor</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (2014), longlisted for the PEN Biography Prize, and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (2003), which received the American Book Award. He teaches courses in American literature and history at UC-Berkeley, where he is a professor of English. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and son.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Julia Flynn Siler is the author of two </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">New York Times</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> bestselling works of nonfiction, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The House of Mondavi</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Lost Kingdom</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">. She is a former staff writer and longtime contributor to </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Wall Street Journal</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and her work has appeared in </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The New York Times</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Washington Post</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, the </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Oxford Dictionary of Food and Wine</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and other publications. She received a 2016–2017 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award to support her new book, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The White Devil’s Daughter’s: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Alfred A. Knopf, 2019).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Lauren Silver is the vice president for education at The Commonwealth Club. She has taught in museums, pre-K–12 classrooms, and universities, and she holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from UC Berkeley, where her research focused on young children’s development of art and narrative.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Mary Taugher is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in numerous literary journals in print and online, including </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Narrative Magazine</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Gettysburg Review</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Santa Monica Review</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Notre Dame Review</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Prime Number Magazine</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">, and </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Coolest American Stories</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">. She lives in San Francisco, where she is working on a short story collection.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:15.0pt;"><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">Dora-Linda Wang is the author of </span><em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN">The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World</span></em><span style="color:#474949;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;" lang="EN"> (Riverhead Penguin Random House, 2010), her historical memoir of practicing as a psychiatrist, as the noble profession of medicine devolves into an industry driven by dollars. A graduate of the Yale School of Medicine, she has served as president of the American Psychiatric Association Caucus of Asian American Psychiatrists. She has won a Lannan Foundation Writers Residency, a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award, and the Pfeiffer Visiting Scholar Award from Stanford University. 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