Organizers
Paul Corman-Roberts
Paul Corman-Roberts most recent book is Notes From An Orgy (Paper Press 2014.) He is the poetry features editor for Cherry Bleeds, an online literary magazine.
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Hollie Hardy
Hollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU, and teaches writing classes at Berkeley City College. An active participant in the local literary scene, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading seriesSaturday Night Special, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland, co-curator of Litquake's Flight of Poets, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, sPARKLE & bLINK, The Common, Parthenon West Review, Transfer, Milvia Street, and other journals. She lives in Oakland, CA.
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Patti Orozco-Cronin
A California native and hyphenated American, Patti Orozco-Cronin is a big fan of Jose Tomas and Arctostaphylos densiflora Howard McMinn. Aside from her first publication (a hand drawn picture of Richard Milhous Nixon appearing in a history textbook) in the third grade, Patti has no publications to speak of, other than some scientific journal articles from her professional life. Patti is a member of the 9st poetry collective, The Beast Crawl Collective and is the favorite and fifth daughter in a family of six spectacular girls.
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SB Stokes
SB Stokes' first book of poetry, A History of Broken Love Things, is out now from Punk Hostage Press. You can order it here: He has produced the blog MASS COMMUNICATIONS since 2004 and can also be found on YouTube and Tumblr. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and his poetry has been published in numerous online and print publications.
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Laura A. Zink |
Bradley Penner |
Laura A. Zink lives in Oakland, teaches English at Berkeley City College, and works as an editor for MARY: A Journal of New Writing. She spent a couple years writing about boxing in Minnesota and currently writes fiction. Her work has appeared in Broad River Review, Full of Crow, sPARKLE & bLINK, Naked Bulb 2016 Summer Anthology, and Literally Stories.
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Bradley Penner is a William Dickey Fellow at SFSU and former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: the SFSU Review.
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Alums
MG Roberts
Born in Subic Bay, Philippines, MG Roberts teaches in the San Francisco Bay area. She is a Kundiman Fellow, Kelsey Street Press member, and MFA graduate of New College of California, where strange tricks were added to her bag. Her work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Eleven Eleven, Web Conjunctions, and KQED’s Writers’ Block.
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Adam Laxton
Founding Friend of the Beast, Adam Laxton is the Jack-of-all-trades, Johnny-on-the-spot, man-about-town dude that supports The Beast and its beastly ways.
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Kwan Booth
Kwan Booth is an award winning journalist, creative writer and media strategist working at the intersection of communications, community, art and technology. Kwan is the cofounder of Oaklandlocal.com and House of Local consulting and a member of the Black Futurist Working Group.
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Youssef Alaoui
Youssef Alaoui Fdili is a Moroccan-American Latino and author of The Blue Demon. His family and heritage are an endless source of inspiration for his varied, dark, spiritual and carnal writings. He lived in Paris for a few years, in the Vieux Halles, close neighbor to the ragged prostitutes of the Rue St. Denis. He has studied Classical Arabic, Spanish Baroque and Moroccan Contemporary poetry. He is well-versed on 19th Century literature of the Fantastic. He also happens to be one of the original co-creators of Beast Crawl, an associate editor for Big Bridge, and founder of Paper Press publishing.
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Andrew J. Thomas
Andrew J. Thomas is a bad ass mofo (not really). He's a father, husband, brother, son, and poet (in that order). He hasn't published anything, but he shares his poems online with anyone willing to subject themselves to such nonsense, and he enjoys reading at The Naked Bulb. He's also a flaming geek and a poo-flinging web monkey for The Beast.
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Missy Church
Missy Church, a Bay Area resident since 1996, has been writing poetry and flash since her teens. She has appeared in numerous readings in San Francisco and Oakland. Her memoir/bio/novelish thing, Church, is coming soon. She prides herself on co-creating a tiny human in the form of a boy. He enjoys long walks and Pee Wee Herman.
Missy is a member of 9st Writing Group, Anger Management Reading Series and runs The Naked Bulb, an open mic, out of her Oakland backyard. |
Lyndal Cairns
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Fred Dodsworth |
Lyndal Cairns is a communications and social media maven with a ravenous appetite for beautiful phrases. Her poems have been published by Australian Poetry and Papergirl Brisbane. She will be seen at Beast Crawl taking Instagram pictures and swooning.
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 photo by Bart Nagel
A member of the Beast Crawl Collective, and board member of Bay Area Generations, For the last three years, Fred Dodsworth has worked with Sharon Coleman producing Milvia Street. He is also publications advisor to Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash, and program and power point creater/designer for the 34th Annual Northern California Book Awards. Fred has been a featured reader at the 2014 Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival, East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, Writing Without Walls, Nomadic Press and other readings. His creative work has been published in Milvia Street, Transfer, Bay Area Generations, Writing Without Wall, and Saturday Night Special. He’s currently finishing up a book of poems and a book of short stories, and hopes to finish his first novel this year.
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J.K. Fowler
J. K. Fowler is the president and founding and managing editor of Nomadic Press, a literary and arts non-profit with bases in Oakland, CA, and Brooklyn, NY. He regularly teaches courses in the sociology and anthropology department at Rutgers University Newark on issues of deviance, privilege, and conceptions of work. For more information on Nomadic Press' event programming in the Bay Area and Brooklyn, as well as its robust publication schedule, please visit nomadicpress.org.
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