Writers With Drinks just keeps getting hotter. Lindy West is a columnist at The Guardian, a contributor to This American Life, and the author of a memoir called Shrill. Julia Vinograd is a Berkeley street poet and the unofficial Poet Laureate of Berkeley, who has published 50 books of poetry. Zahra Noorbakhsh is cohost of the award winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. George Higgins is a public defender in Oakland, California whose poems have appeared in Fugue, Lungfull, Nimrod, Pleiades, and Salamander. Meg Elison's debut novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife won the 2014 Philip K Dick Award.