Staff

Tavia Stewart-Streit
Executive Director
Tavia Stewart-Streit graduated in 2003 with a degree in Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. Ever since, she’s been living in the Bay Area, working in the literary and visual-art community. She’s currently the Operations Manager for the Office of Letters and Light (National Novel Writing Month and Script Frenzy) and a Co-Editor/Visual Art Curator for Watchword Press. She has been published in Smokelong Quarterly and We Still Like, and is a co-author of Ready, Set, Novel! A Noveling Journal (Chronicle Books) due out in the fall of 2011.

L.J. Moore
Tour Director and Chief
L.J. Moore lives in San Francisco in a basement by the beach with one ferret, one brother, and too many books. Her interests range from martial arts to taphophilia. L.J.'s poetry, essays, photography, and reviews have appeared in Spectrum, Midnight Zoo, Danse Macabre, Coracle, 14850, 14 Hills, Limestone, Jacket, Kalliope, Transfer, Goetry, Sidebrow, Instant City 6, The Sidebrow Anthology, and is forthcoming in a collaborative book of poetry based on found photographs entitled Shadows: The Disappearing Woman. Her book-length poem, F-Stein, based on science, family, pop-culture, and the paranormal was published in December, 2008, by Subito Press. L.J. is a co-founder of bay-area-based Small Desk Press and winner of a Marin Headlands Center for the Arts Residency in 2010.

Jesse Solomon Clark
Composer
Jesse Clark is a professional film composer with a background in experimental music and sound art. Notable projects include Monday Audio which featured a new sound and music piece composed and released every week for a year. Recent work includes the score for Leena Pendharkar's feature film Raspberry Magic and the feature film about online gambling From Busto To Robusto. Jesse releases his own music under the alias Agents Del Futuro and just released a new LP 'The Mist Hardships'.

Clare Haggarty
Visual Art Curator
Clare Haggarty is an independent curator and researcher living in San Francisco, originally from Scotland. Recent exhibitions include El Alter de Recuerdos de Calle 24, a souvenir mug shrine for 24th Street and Two-Four Mission Homegirls, an exhibition about a group of teenage girls called the Tiny Locas who hung out in the San Francisco Mission District in the 1980s.  Both projects examined the history of a vibrant and changing neighborhood.  She is currently developing an exhibition about supernatural sites and post-industrial ghost towns as attractions prompted by her research into dark and disaster tourism. Clare's current curatorial practice meditates on the experiences of people interacting with places and histories and how one informs the other. Clare has an MA in History of Art from the University of Glasgow in Scotland and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.