Kris Kovick (September 10, 1951 – October 26, 2001) was an American writer, cartoonist, and printer based in California.
In San Francisco, she lived in the Bernal Heights neighborhood, where she became known as "The Mayor of Norwich Street", a take-off on San Francisco activist Harvey Milk's nickname "The Mayor of Castro Street".
[7] She toured nationally with Sister Spit, a group of women writers that also included such well-regarded authors as Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Lynn Breedlove, Sini Anderson and others.
[8] In 2000, she founded a reading series at the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts, called "San Francisco in Exile.
[1] In 2005, Kovick was the subject of a short documentary by director Silas Howard entitled "What I Love About Dying," which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.