Featured Reader
Virtual Event on October 14th, 2025–6:00 P.M to 8:00 P.M.
Live stream will be available on our YouTube Channel at the time of the event!
Elise Kazanjian
Elise Kazanjian is a San Francisco poet/writer who spent her childhood in Northern China. Her work has appeared in New Verse News; the 2025 Marin Poetry Center’s Anthology;Fog & Light: San Francisco Seen Through the Eyes Of The Poets Who Live Here; the 2024 Nature of Our Times (Kent State University); Poet Laureate Lee Herricks Our California; The San Francisco Chronicle; among others.
She has worked at Sunset Magazine; as Foreign Editor, CCTV, Beijing, China; and as a San Francisco pawnbroker.
She is a co-author of the 2024 Season Lightly With Salt, and feels inspired when writing with one of her more than 100 ink fountain pens. Currently, she is working on a chapbook.