California Fever Dream: A Memoir chronicles Judy Juanita’s 60 years in literature and activism. At San Francisco State University in the 1960s, Juanita joined student protesters to revolutionize higher education and create America’s first Black Studies department. She recollects her path to develop her fiction and other works.

Judy Juanita is an award-winning writer, and playwright. Juanita was the editor-in-chief of The Black Panther, the Black Panther Party newspaper. She is a winner of the American Book Award (2021) and the Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN Oakland (2024). Juanita is currently a Lecturer in the College Writing Programs at the University of California, Berkeley.