Lit Crawl LA

Susan Berman’s stories have appeared in Zyzzyva, The Rattling Wall, Joyland, PANK, and The Santa Monica Review. A three-time Pushcart Award nominee, Susan received a special mention in The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, 2013. She was also a finalist in the Glimmer Train... Read More →

Chelika Yapa received her MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she was awarded a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship. Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, Glamour, Mamm, and Now. She was a semi-finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction and... Read More →

Lara Fitzjarrald received her MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine in 2018. She won the MacDonald Harris Award for Fiction in 2017. As a participant in the UC Irvine MFA Programs in Writing reading series, Lara read from her works in progress at venues that included Skylight Books... Read More →

Mia Taylor is a writer, copy editor, and game show researcher living in Los Angeles. Mia's work has been published in Tin House, Mid-American Review, Los Angeles Review, Dust-Up. Recently she lived in Nepal teaching English in a monastery to young Tibetan Buddhist monks.

Philip Di Giacomo’s work has appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, 1888 The Cost of Paper, Fiction on The Web, Halfway Down the Stairs, Story and Grit, Fish Food Magazine, Literary Manhattan, The Examined Life Journal, Fleas on the Dog and The Bethlehem Writers Group. He is a former... Read More →

Susan Lindheim won the UCLA Extension Writing Program’s Kirkwood Prize for an excerpt from her novel Baby Driver. Her short fiction has been published in The Nervous Breakdown, the South Dakota Review, and Voice from the Planet, an anthology of international fiction. Susan speaks... Read More →