Visit the Small Publishing in a Big Universe Marketplace at the Bay Area Book Festival 2025!
Sunday, June 1, 2025
11:00am – 5:00pm
Downtown Berkeley, California
Kelley York
(attending)
Kelley York can be found with her wife playing video games and D&D in the redwoods of the Northern California coast. Her stories are a mishmash of queer characters, mental health issues, dark twists, bittersweet endings, and the macabre. In addition to writing, Kelley is the mastermind behind Sleepy Fox Studio, creating book covers for other authors like her.
Kelley York and Rowan Altwood
(attending)
Kelley York can be found with her wife playing video games and D&D in the redwoods of the Northern California coast. Her stories are a mishmash of queer characters, mental health issues, dark twists, bittersweet endings, and the macabre. In addition to writing, Kelley is the mastermind behind Sleepy Fox Studio, creating book covers for other authors like her.
Hannah Rebekah Graves
(attending)
Kelley York can be found with her wife playing video games and D&D in the redwoods of the Northern California coast. Her stories are a mishmash of queer characters, mental health issues, dark twists, bittersweet endings, and the macabre. In addition to writing, Kelley is the mastermind behind Sleepy Fox Studio, creating book covers for other authors like her.
Mark London Williams and Doug Potter
(attending)
Mark London Williams wrote the Los Angeles Times best-selling Danger Boy time travel series, among other books and anthology contributions. Mark is also the author of Max Random and the Zombie 500. He covers show business, its content and discontents, as a columnist in Los Angeles.
Sidharta Ochoa
(attending)
Writer, editor, and translator, founder of Abismos Editorial. Author of La ilusión de la ligereza. She received the Brazilian Publishers grant in 2019, the translation support grant from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and DGLAB (2019), and the Latvian Literature for Publishers grant in 2019 and 2020, as well as the Magdalena Mondragón National Literature Prize in the Essay Category (2019), the Camões, I.P. Editing and Translation Support Grant (2021), and the KPIPA (Korea) grant in 2023.
Diego Uribe
(attending)
Diego Uribe holds a PhD in English Philology from the University of Granada (Spain) and a Master’s degree in Educational Administration from Pepperdine University (USA). In 1998, he moved to the United States, where he began writing fiction with Japanese Stories of Death and Desolation, a book of short stories that expose the origins of Japanese traditions surrounding death and tragedy. This was followed by a crime novel, I, the Killer, in the purest style of American true crime shows. Now he returns to his roots with Rite of Passage, a book set in a Tokyo slum at the beginning of the 21st century, where the underworld rules everything that happens there.
Horacio Alejandro González Sánchez, Pablo Muñoz Covarrubias, and Sergio Espinosa Proa
Edon Kleine
Edon Kleine’s writing draws from a broad spectrum of influences, including classical novels, biographies, poems, behavioral science, spiritual writing, communication studies, philosophy, and even pop culture, as well his own personal experiences and the experience of people in his network.
Stephanie Rose
Stephanie Rose is an indie author of historical romance and Greek mythology horror. She’s also a Wattpad Originals author of steamy sapphic romance, and other steamy romances. And she’s known to dabble in the fantasy and paranormal genres.
William C. Tracy
William C. Tracy writes and publishes queer science fiction and fantasy through his indie press Space Wizard Science Fantasy (spacewizardsciencefantasy.com). His largest work is the Dissolutionverse: a space opera with music-based magic. He also has a standalone epic fantasy with seasonal fruit-based magic and a nonfiction book about body mechanics and correct posture. He is working on the final book of The Biomass Conflux, a hard sci-fi trilogy with generational colony ships and a planet covered by a sentient fungal entity.
J. S. Fields
Michael Thal
Michael Thal is a freelance writer and author in Los Angeles, California. Michael began his career in public education. Due to a severe hearing loss, he left his tenured sixth grade teaching assignment to learn the writing craft. Michael has written over 80 articles for magazines like Highlights for Children, Fun for Kidz, Writer’s Digest, and San Diego Family Magazine.
