Lindsay Kent lives in Half Moon Bay. Her book, 'My Twin the Murderer' came out in June, 2026. It's a mind-bending thriller about estranged twin sisters battling a murder rap, the psychedelic mafia, and their own fractured past.

Lauren C. Johnson lives in San Francisco. Her book, The West Facade came out on March 3rd, 2026. It’s a fantasy novel about a statue of St Genevieve who gives into her desire to be human.

"Shavasana, Between Breath and Death," is about the final pose done in a yoga class, as well as using the pose to change our relationship to our feelings about death and dying.

It's a novel that takes on the ways women can disappear; physically and emotionally.

The book is about the first 30 years of one of the most important record labels to come out of the South Bay Area.

Vanessa Hua lives in the East Bay. Her novel, Coyoteland, came out May 12th, 2026. It’s about wealth, privilege and the housing market, as well as territory, predator, and prey.

Jase Peeples lives in San Francisco. His book, Before You Can Fly, came out May 8th, 2026. It’s a YA coming of age romance about a gay, comic-book obsessed teen who is struggling with his growing feelings for his best friend.

It's about a teenage daughter of Armenian immigrants from Istanbul Turkey, who struggles with her identity and searches for the true stories of her family's history of surviving genocide.

Caroline Paul lives in San Francisco. Her book Why Fly? came out February 24th, 2026. She reads a passage about an emergency landing she had to make.

Liam O’Brien lives in San Francisco. His book, "Butterflies of the Bay Area, and (Slightly) Beyond," is about the places and the zones where humans and butterflies converge. It came out September 30th, 2025.