With incredibly diverse perspectives on life in The Golden State, novelist and critic Lisa Locascio brings together short fiction and nonfiction from acclaimed writers as well as new voices from under-explored environs. Our fourth annual anthology, celebrated in literary communities across the state.







- Tobias Carroll “The State of California Literature: An Interview With Lisa Locascio,” Vol. 1 Brooklyn, January 4, 2018
- Justice Fisher, “Review: Golden State 2017: The Best New Writing from California by Lisa Locascio,” Hippocampus Magazine, August 1, 2017
- Wallace Baine, The new anthology ‘Golden State’ seeks out the metaphysics of place in the country’s most fascinating state, Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 17, 2017