Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025

Gaia Patience Veenis, a prose writer originally from Santa Rosa and currently residing in San Francisco (honoring Octavia Butler), is a co-host of the literary series and open mic Patron Saints of Influence. I’m Sorry I Have to Do This—her memoir about barely surviving a chaotic adolescence during the late ‘90s/Y2K era—is looking for a publisher. Her nonfiction and fiction prose has been featured in Y2K Quarterly, Writing Without Walls, The VelRo Reader 2, Toad the Journal, The Bicycle Review, and Airplane Reading.