Sini Anderson is a performance artist, poet, producer and director who lives in San Francisco and Brooklyn. She was the co-founder and co-director of Sister Spit, the infamous all-girl open-mic series that took San Francisco by storm, and subsequently toured the country for 5 years with over 40 different writers, performers and performance artists. She went on to be Artistic Director of the non-profit of the same name until 2005. She is currently working on a feature length documentary of the Spitters that will be finished someday. Musically, she has collaborated with artists including Kathleen Hanna, Kaia Wilson, Amy Ray, and Bitch. You can find her poetry in the anthologies The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and Word Warriors among many places.

She has served as the chief curator and Artistic Director for The National Queer Arts Festival; a co-producer for the Nectar Stage at San Francisco’s Pride; rresident of the board of directors for the Harvey Milk Inst., and co-chair of the board of directors for The Queer Cultural Center. Currently, she is finishing a book trailer for Melissa Febos’s memoir, Whip Smart, and in the early stages of directing a documentary about the musician and feminist Kathleen Hanna.

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