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This Residency, funded by Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler's generosity, is designed to nurture emerging and established San Francisco based writers by guaranteeing them access to free studio space and bringing them into direct collaboration with the Library for literary activities. This program honors the vital connection between the public Library and the literary world.
There would be no libraries without writers--and there would be no writers without libraries. We're very proud to help provide, in a city increasingly unaffordable to artists, a space in which our local writers can work, to ensure the survival of both. - Daniel Handler
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Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler
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Keli Dailey
Keli Dailey is a nonfiction writer, adjunct professor, comedian, and journalist with experience at the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. A 2014 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she received a First Look Media fellowship for her 2015 comedy-news web series “News Hangover.” Keli is managing editor of Globus magazine and founder of the MenoPower Writing Hour, which uses humor and storytelling to explore menopause. She teaches at Mills College at Northeastern University and the University of San Francisco. www.kelidailey.com
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Kevin Dublin Kevin Dublin is an educator, filmmaker, and writer of grants, poetry, prose, scripts & code. As founder of Living Room SF, he produces readings, publishes others, and facilitates partnerships in the Bay. He’s taught writing at Duke University’s Youth Programs, San Diego State, East Carolina University, and in the community from ages 5 - 105 at various K-12 schools & non-profits across the US. Kevin is the author of Eulogy (2023) and How to Fall in Love in San Diego (2017). You can find recent work in Brooklyn Rail, Ploughshares, and Apocrypha Magazine. He believes in you and the power of collective transformation.
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Ash Huang Ash Huang is a writer. Her speculative fiction examines themes such as inherited and intergenerational stories, nostalgia and misremembering, our complicated relationship with social media and technology, her particular slice of Chinese America, and diasporic co-creation. She is published or forthcoming in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Ecotone, Apparition Literary, Orion’s Belt, Alien Magazine, Catapult, Fast Company, and elsewhere. In 2022, she won the Diverse Worlds Grant from the Speculative Literature Foundation, and is an alum of the Roots. Wounds. Words. Retreat, the Tin House Winter Workshop and the 2024–2025 Reading Fellowship, and the Periplus Fellowship.
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Maya Kini
Maya Kini is a poet and goldsmith whose interdisciplinary practice links ideas of family, the body, material and craft, and her relationship to the natural world. Her poems have appeared in BLR, Current Obsession, Metalsmith, River Heron Review, and Wildfire. Maya studied Spanish Literature at Reed College before going on to receive an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She just completed her 2nd semester in the Master of Library and Information Science program at San José State University and looks forward to collaborating with San Francisco Public Libraries on community-based projects around poetry and storytelling. She lives on a foggy hill in Glen Park with her partner, two children, and the family dog that she walks in the Canyon. Maya is working on a memoir that weaves her father's voice from his early years in North America together with her travels.
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Akiko Neumann
Akiko Neumann is a writer and visual artist based in San Francisco. Her graphic narrative work is created for both child and adult readers, exploring the overlap of our unguarded subconscious and the operational consciousness that moves us through the world.
Akiko’s residency will be utilized towards a 12-installment mailing series, entitled Miniform Newsletter. Mailings will consist of text- and image-based collages sourced and scanned from SFPL Archives, and distributed via USPS. Subscription is free and open to all: bit.ly/4eR6IDs |
 From left: Yeva Johnson, Brendan McHugh, Flávia Stefani, René Peña-Govea, and Sam Santos Julian
 From left: tanea lunsford lynx, Jenny Qi, Lindsey Smith, Douglas Henderson, Preeti Vangani
From left Shruti Swamy, Amanda Moore, Earle McCartney
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(2024-2025)
Ekene Okobi Ploi Pirapokin Sara Marinelli Sarah Matsui Marina Hope Wilson (2023-2024)
Brendan McHugh Flávia Stefani René Peña-Govea Sam Santos Julian Yeva Johnson (2022-2023)
tanea lunsford lynx Jenny Qi Lindsey Smith Douglas Henderson Preeti Vangani (2020-2021)
Yalitza Ferreras Kristin Keane Justine Mccauley Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Shelley Wong (2019-2020)
Earle McCartney Amanda Moore Mia Paschal Maddy Raskulinecz Shruti Swamy (2018 - 2019)
Chaney Kwak Kathleen McClung Susie Nadler Kevin Simmonds K-Fai Steele |
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Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Public Library announce the creation of the Lisa Brown and Daniel Handler Writer’s Residency. Made possible by the generosity of Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown, the residency is designed to provide writers with free, adequate and accessible space in which to produce creative work, and to connect writers with the San Francisco Public Library in the course of producing and sharing their work in the community.
Friends and the San Francisco Public Library have multiple interests in creating this residency: to nurture the creative expression of diverse writers; to engage writers with the Library as partners in creating and sharing work with the community; and to assist writers by providing writing studio space available at no cost at the Friends’ office. Reflecting the Library’s mission as a democratic, public and accessible institution, we are committed to supporting writers from a wide spectrum of ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability and genre. Eligibility and Requirements Residencies will be offered to five writers for a period of one year, open to: |
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• Fiction writers
• Nonfiction writers • Children’s writers and illustrators • Poets • Playwrights/screenwriters |
