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.

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