A longtime participant of the workshop since 1977, Costello created the San Francisco Public Library archive for the San Francisco Writers Workshop. We’re happy to share a collection of her writings about the Workshop.
Kitty Costello worked for thirty years for the San Francisco Public Library, while also practicing Shaolin kung fu and working as a teacher, editor, and social justice organizer. She earned a master’s degree in social psychology, specializing in labor and mental health, and in recovery from trauma. She practices psychotherapy and leads meditation, writing and chi gung classes. She is literary trustee for Native Alaskan writer Mary TallMountain. Working with Freedom Voices, she has helped give voice to marginalized writers and artists, especially in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, for nearly thirty years. Costello lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Introduction to the San Francisco Writers Workshop
Dean Lipton, 1960-1992
Ballad for a Scottish Bard, about Leonard Irving
Published by Olga Zilberbourg
Olga Zilberbourg’s English-language debut LIKE WATER AND OTHER STORIES (WTAW Press) explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to The Moscow Times. It also dives into topics of bisexuality and immigrant parenthood. Anthony Marra called it “…a book of succinct abundance, dazzling in its particulars, expansive in its scope,” and Karen Bender said, “Olga Zilberbourg is a writer to read right now.”
Zilberbourg’s writing has appeared in World Literature Today, The Believer, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Born in Leningrad, USSR in a Russian-speaking Jewish family, she makes her home in San Francisco, California. She has published four collections of stories in Russia, including most recent Задержи дыхание [Hold Your Breath] from Vremya Press. She serves as a consulting editor at Narrative Magazine and as a co-facilitator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Together with Yelena Furman, she has co-founded Punctured Lines, a feminist blog about literature from the former Soviet Union. She is currently at work on her first novel.
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