Alexandra Kostoulas is an award-winning writer of poetry, fiction and journalism. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute and publisher of the Mid-Market News. She has performed her work on stage locally and nationally at Santa Barbara Book & Author festival, Los Angeles Festival of Books, UC Berkeley, Beyond Baroque Bookstore in Venice, CA, Mills College, the Lit Symposium at UC Santa Barbara, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley, Books and Books in Miami, and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and more. She teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day as an instructor in The Jack Grapes METHOD WRITING Program and at the SF Creative Writing Institute.