Voices from the Hill

Britta Stromeyer is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Her writing appears in The Common, World Literature Today, Tupelo Quarterly, Beyond Words Magazine, Necessary Fiction, On the Seawall, Flash Fiction...

<p>Kim Shuck was born in San Francisco and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She received a BA in art and an MFA in textiles from San Francisco State University. Shuck is the author of the poetry...

<p>Maw Shein Win is the author of several beautiful poetry collections, including Percussing the Thinking Jar, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, and Invisible Gifts. Her work pays close attention to memory, the body...

<p>Andrew Paul Nelson, author of the recent poetry collection, How to Draw a Guillotine, and the owner of The Golden Sardine in North Beach—an intimate wine bar that has quickly become a cultural hub for Bay Area poets...

<p>Today, we're joined by Mark Bittner, a writer whose life has followed anything but a conventional path. You may know him from The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, his best-selling memoir that chronicled his unlikely...

<p>Gail Reitano grew up in the southern New Jersey Pine Barrens. After graduating from Rutgers University, Gail lived in New York and London before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fiction, memoir and personal...

<p>Bart Schneider grew up in San Francisco and lives in Sonoma. He spent twenty-five years living and working in Minnesota, where he was the founding editor of Hungry Mind Review and Speakeasy Magazine. He is the author...

<p>Nadia Terranova is the author of Gli anni al contrario, Casca il mondo, and Bruno, il bambino che imparò a volare. Her first novel translated into English, Farewell Ghosts (Seven Stories, 2020), was awarded the...

<p>Genny Lim is an American poet, playwright, and performer. She is the ninth poet laureate of San Francisco, California, and the first Chinese American in the role. She was the Chair of Community Arts and Education...

<p>Stuart Schuffman, also known as Broke-Ass Stuart, is an American travel writer, television host, poet, performer, and journalist based in San Francisco. He pioneered budget-living zines and books, created IFC’s...

<p>Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women, Never a Stranger, a collection of award-winning travel essays, and San Francisco Pilgrimage. Tania’s work has been...

<p>Gary Kamiya, journalist, historian and author of “Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco” and “Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City” with artist Paul Madonna” – His “Portals of the...

<p><br>Welcome to “Voices from the Hill” from Telegraph Hill Books in North Beach, celebrating the vibrant literary voices of the San Francisco Bay Area. With each episode we sit with a local author to explore their...