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Authors and Artists
Rebecca Solnit is the author of eleven books, including Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, forthcoming this spring from U.C. Press, 2004's Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, and 2003's River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, which won a Guggenheim in its research phase and several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, after publication.
Adrián Arancibia is a poet, writer, and educator. He, along with Adolfo Guzmán-López and Miguel-Ángel Soria, founded the seminal Chicano spoken-word collective the Taco Shop Poets in 1994. Adrián Arancibia was born in Iquique, Chile in 1971. Since 1980, he has resided in San Diego, California. Arancibia is the co-editor of the Taco Shop Poets Anthology: Chorizo Tonguefire and currently writes for the San Diego Union Tribune and for national magazines like The Green Magazine.
San Diego based trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos is a major force on the San Diego jazz scene and one of the leading trumpeters in the Southern California area. Castellanos is known equally for his work as a leader and as a member of two top jazz ensembles in the Los Angeles area- guitarist Anthony Wilson's Nonet, and one of today's most critically acclaimed big bands, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Underground is his latest release on Seedling Records.
Kim Stringfellow is an artist and educator living in San Diego, California. She teaches multimedia and photography at San Diego State University. Her professional practice and research interests address ecological, historical, and activist issues related to land use and the built environment through hybrid documentary forms incorporating writing, digital media, photography, audio, video, installation, and locative media.
After graduating from UCSD, she spent several years working in book publishing before returning to school to pursue a master’s degree in journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Since subsequently worked as a business writer at regional newspapers and publications, first in California and later in Louisiana, where she moved in the late ‘90s.
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A poet, writer, political activist
and teacher, Amiri Baraka is one of the nation's most influential and
prolific African American artists. A vanguard in the Black arts movement,
he has published numerous volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama,
and anthologies. Over the last five decades, he has also edited several
important literary magazines and journals.
A true child of La
Frontera, Denise Chávez is the author of the novels 
The first official Poet
Laureate of the State of California, Quincy Troupe, is the author of 17 books. His
distinctions include a 2005 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award,
2 American Book Awards (for poetry and non-fiction), the Milt Kessler
Award for Poetry, a Peabody Award for co-producing and writing the Miles
Davis Radio Project, and his segment on Bill Moyers' Power of the Word,
"The Living Language," won a television Emmy Award. For over 20
years, he taught the craft of writing at Columbia University’s Graduate
Writing Program and at the University of California, San Diego, where he
is professor emeritus. Currently, he is editor of Black Renaissance Noire,
a journal of literature, the arts and political thought, published at New
York University.
Oakley
Hall was born and raised in San Diego and Hawaii, attended San Diego State
College, and took his BA from the University of California at Berkeley in
l943. He served as a Marine lieutenant in WWII. He received an MFA
from the University of Iowa in l950. He was Director of the Programs in
Writing at the University of California at Irvine for 20 years, and was a
founder of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, a summer writers'
conference currently in its 38th year He has published 16 novels including
Mel
Freilicher is a longtime San Diego resident who was publisher and
co-editor of CRAWL OUT YOUR WINDOW for 15 years, a magazine of
regional literature and arts; he was an activist, including working with
downtown artists groups; did a stint as a performance artist, and was the
first Vice-President of the Board of Sushi.
David
Bacon is a writer and photojournalist based in Oakland and Berkeley,
California.
Mexican author Daniel
Reveles' award-winning books 
Steven
Hiatt is a professional editor and writer, but also has a long history as
an activist; he went on his first demonstration, for a city equal housing
ordinance, in Des Moines in 1965. He went on to edit an underground
newspaper, was active in the movement against the Vietnam War, and then
became a community college teacher and teachers union organizer. He is the
co-editor, with Mike Davis, of 
Sara
Bongiorni, author of 
Cellist
Zoë Keating is a one-woman string quartet, using live electronic sampling
to create "layers of sound, that feel more like orchestrations than a
solo instrument" (National Public Radio.) She has performed
across North America and Europe, including 4 tours supporting and
accompanying Grammy-nominated artist Imogen Heap. Zoë's
self-released album 