Since 2007, Babylon Salon has been a San Francisco-based showcase and community of writers, performers, musicians, magicians, imbibers (of spirits and spirit) and revelers.

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2022

Babylon Salon Summer '22 Lineup

2021


2020


2019

Jamel Brinkley, Chia-Chia Lin, Thea Matthews, Amy Berkowitz, Celeste Chan

Daniel Handler, Jenny Odell, Namwali Serpell, Nancy Au, Jason Sheeler

Tom Barbash, Rachel Howard, Kristen Cosby, Cheryl Ossola, Jesus Sierra
Joe Loya, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Sarah Stone, Maw Shein Win, Irving Ruan


2018
Vanessa Hua, Beth Winegarner, Heather June Gibbons, Sara Mumolo, Christine O'Brien
Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Tommy Orange, Lisa Locascio, Katharine Dion, Ismail Muhammad
R.O. Kwon, Michael David Lukas, Rachel Levin, Katie Flynn, Jarvis Subia
Julie Lythcott-Haims, K.M. Soehnlein, Peg Alford Pursell, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jacqueline Doyle, Roxanne Hernandez

2017
Achy Obejas, Arisa White, Barbara Jane Reyes, Laurie Ann Doyle, and Kate Folk
Laleh Khadivi, Lee Daniel Kravetz, Shanthi Sekaran, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Ruchika Tomar
Jim Shepard, Hannah Tinti, Lydia Kiesling, Meron Hadero, Erin Byrne
Cristina García, Joshua Mohr, Ethel Rohan, Chris Drange, Sue Staats

2016

Jewelle Gomez, Anne Raeff, Vanessa Hua, Jason Bayani, Zach Wyner
Ramona Ausubel, J. Ryan Stradal, Tess Taylor, John Jodzio, Frances Stroh
Ali Eteraz, Porter Shreve, Rachel Khong, Sean Bernard, Tommy Mouton
Pam Uschuk, Matthew Zapruder, Grant Faulkner, William Pitt Root, Julia Scott

2015

Anisse Gross, Duggan McDonnell, Aamina Ahmad, Rachel Katy King
Lori Ostlund, Chris Ballard, Janis Cooke Newman, Justine Gubar, Aaron Shurin, Tam Putnam
Molly Giles, Natalie Baszile, Zahra Noorbakhsh, Michael Larkin, Candy Shue

Edan Lepucki, Charles Yu, Adam Rogers, Josh Weil, Helene Wecker

2014

Seth Harwood, Jack Boulware, Teresa Burns Gunther, Tim J. Myers, Mandy Hu, Amrit Chima
Tom Barbash, Bich Minh Nguyen, Nona Caspers, Evan Karp, Mimi Lok
Kathryn Ma, Davey D, Porter Shreve, Kirstin Chen, Stacey Kohut, Ying-Sun Ho
Daniel Alarcon, Katie Crouch, Robin Sloan, Melissa Stein, Molly Antopol

2013

Steve Almond, Anthony Marra, Ethel Rohan, Kevin Allardice, Vanessa Hua
Lysley Tenorio, Peg Alford Pursell, Jorge Cino, Valerie Fioravanti, Nina Schuyler
Adam Mansbach, Dean Rader, Ben Loory, Anita Barrows, L. Tam Holland
Glen David Gold, Justin Torres, Camille Dungy,Tess Taylor, Daniel Coshnear, Russell Bourne
Terry Bisson, Tamim Ansary, Renee Thompson, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Fred Anderson

2012

Namwali Serpell, Wesley Gibson, Michael David Lukas, Valerie Fioravanti
April Sinclair, Charlie Mandell, Phil Lang, Catherine Sharpe, Ryan Sloan
Lysley Tenorio, Thomas Peele, Stephen Beachy, Dennis Bernstein, Jorge Cino
Kevin Moffett, Reese Okyong Kwon, Heather Donahue, Mary Volmer, Eugene Cross, Noam Eisen
Karen Joy Fowler, Victoria Patterson, Nina Schuyler, Jay Barmann, Ryan Sloan

2011-2007
Yiyun Li, Ayelet Waldman, Juliet Kono, Josh Mohr, Julia Scheeres, Kim Addonizio, Howard Junker, D.A. Powell, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Lewis Buzzbee, Kevin Moffett, April Sinclair, Reese Okyong Kwon, Victoria Patterson, Skip Horack, Tom Barbash, Peter Orner, Joseph Lease, Kate Brady, Lola Haskins, Kate Braverman, Michelle Richmond, and so many more.