An Anthology of San Francisco Area Writers and Artists of Color Edited by Shizue Seigel • Pease Press

ENDANGERED SPECIES, ENDURING VALUES is a literary and artistic guide to the real San Francisco—a sampling of the seldom-heard 58% that brings color and diversity to the city in every sense of the word.  

The book invites readers, whether people of color or not, to meet an array of people unlike themselves. Knowledge is power—it leads to understanding, compassion, and informed action. We can actively work towards transformative growth as individuals, as a region, and as a nation by listening to each other, learning lessons, and finding commonalities.

More than 70 established and emerging writers and artists of color contributed over 150 pieces of prose, poetry and artwork. They include San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, San Francisco Fire Commissioner Francée Covington, artist/curator Rene Yañez, physician/educator Sriram Shamasunder, mental health advocate Kelechi Ubozoh, poets Sandra García Rivera, Jennifer Hasegawa and Clara Hsu, storytellers/performers Thomas Robert Simpson and Nancy Wang, union activists Choppy Oshiro and Karina Muniz-Pagan, writer/activist Li Miao Lovett, artist Mark Harris, Afrofuturist Kwan Booth and Rochelle Spencer, pioneering educator/psychiatrist Keh-Ming Lin, UC Berkeley, Assistant Dean Sandra Bass, and others.