We had so much fun last month at the Inner Sunset Flea, we decided to come back for a second round! Once again, this is an in-person, outdoor reading, with no zoom screens or webcams or headphones involved. (We love virtual events, but we've missed seeing people's faces in person.)

Once again, this event is hosted by Charlie Jane Anders, with book sales by Green Apple Books on the Park. This time around, Authors on the Street features:

• Bonnie Tsui
• Juli Delgado Lopera
• Dr. Jen Gunter
• Andrea Stewart
• Julia Serano

About the authors:

Bonnie Tsui's new book, Why We Swim, was published by Algonquin Books in April 2020; it received praise from The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Booklist, Kirkus, and more, and is one of TIME magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. It is currently being translated into eight languages. Bonnie’s first children’s book, Sarah and the Big Wave, about big-wave women surfers, was just published by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan in May 2021. In 2009, her book American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods was published by Simon & Schuster’s Free Press; it won the 2009-2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection.

Juli Delgado Lopera is the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the Winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award, a finalist of the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Juli is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Juli's received fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Granta, Teen Vogue, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, The Rumpus, The White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco.

Dr. Jen Gunter's latest book is The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism. She is an internationally bestselling author, obstetrician, and gynecologist with more than three decades of experience as a vulvar and vaginal diseases expert. Her New York Times and USA Today bestselling book, The Vagina Bible, has been translated into nineteen languages and The Guardian calls her "the world's most famous--and outspoken--gynecologist." The recipient of the 2020 NAMS Media Award from The North American Menopause Society, she is a columnist for The New York Times and the star of Jensplaining, a CBC video series that highlights the impact of medical misinformation on women. Dr. Gunter also appears in the Netflix series A User's Guide to Cheating Death and her TED Talk reached one million views in its first month.

Julia Serano's first full-length foray into fiction, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel (Switch Hitter Press, 2020), is the winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and an Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2021 silver medalist in LGBT+ Fiction. She is best known for her book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity — The Advocate placed it on their list of the best non-fiction transgender books and readers of Ms. Magazine ranked it #16 on their list of the 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time. Julia’s second full-length book, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive (Seal Press, 2013) quickly garnered considerable praise and interest: Autostraddle named it as one of the “Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013” and it was a Publishing Triangle finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction. Her third book — a compilation of her previous manifestos, essays, and spoken word pieces entitled Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism (Switch Hitter Press, 2016) — was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction.

Andrea Stewart is the author of The Bone Shard Daughter and its upcoming sequel, The Bone Shard Emperor. She is the daughter of immigrants, and was raised in a number of places across the United States. Her parents always emphasized science and education, so she spent her childhood immersed in Star Trek and odd-smelling library books. When her (admittedly ambitious) dreams of becoming a dragon slayer didn't pan out, she instead turned to writing books. She now lives in sunny California, and in addition to writing, can be found herding cats, looking at birds, and falling down research rabbit holes.