Contributors
Kathy Abelson lives in Mountain View,
California, and works as a technical writer for a Silicon Valley software company.
She is a member of Waverley Writers and has been a guest reader on KKUP (91.5
FM) and KFJC (89.7 FM). Her poetry has appeared in Writing For Our Lives. She
has one chapbook, Lady Godiva, and is a contributor to the collection titled
Unusually Suspicious, published by her poetry group, "The Usual
Suspects."
Len Anderson is a poet and physicist
who lives in Santa Cruz, California. His work has appeared in Bellowing Ark,
Sarasota Review of Poetry, The Montserrat Review, Quarry West and
disquietingmuses.com. He is a winner of the Dragonfly Press Poetry Competition
and the Mary Lonnberg Smith Poetry Award, and he
handles publicity and Contact Person duties for Poetry Santa Cruz.
Jennifer
Swanton Brown started writing and publishing poetry when she was in the fifth
grade and since then has studied Linguistics, Literature and Nursing. She
currently works as a technical writer and a mother, studying with many San
Francisco Bay Area poets and at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She is a
member of the Waverley Writers group in Palo Alto and is finishing her training
to become a California Poet in the Schools.
David Cummings has been published in
Poetry Flash and Bellowing Ark. He reports that at one time he did physics, and
poetry was a side interest; now it's the other way around!
Janice Dabney is the Poetry Editor for
Sand Hill Review and appreciated the opportunity to read such high-quality work
for this issue. She is also a member of Waverley Writers and has published her
work in various journals, including Poetry Northwest and Santa Clara Review.
Her chapbook is entitled Connections.
Patrick Daly lives in Menlo Park. He is
the author of the chapbook Playing with Fire. He has always suspected that art
is long, but has only recently begun to notice that life is short.
Greg Ennis is a native Californian
who has sampled life as a jazz musician, mathematician, teacher, and engineer,
and who now would love more than anything to focus on poetry. His work has
previously been published by the United States Patent Office.
Lara Gularte is a native Californian who won first place in the San Jose
Mercury's Gold Rush Series for her poems. Her work has appeared in various
publications including The Santa Clara Review, The Montserrat Review, The TULE
Review, and O PROGRESSO, a Portuguese Historical Cultural Publication. She
serves as a board member for the San Jose Center for Poetry and Literature.
Beth Houston has taught at San
Francisco State University and currently teaches at UC Berkeley Extension and
the Harvey Milk Institute. Her work has appeared in The Literary Review, Yale
Review, Massachusetts Review, Chicago Review, and Feminist Studies, and online
at http://www.webdelsol.com/tlr and http://www.ablemuse.com/premiere.
Esther Kamkar was born in Tehran, Iran and has been living in the US for thirty
years. She began to write poetry eleven years ago. She lives with her family in
the Bay Area.
Muriel Karr has published a book
entitled Shape of Pear, which was published by Bellowing Ark Press of Seattle
in 1996. Her second collection from the same publisher will be forthcoming by
the end of the year.
Richard Lawson was born in Kansas City,
Missouri. He holds a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature
from Wayne State University. In addition to writing poetry he has written and
directed a number of musical comedies. He lives with his muse in Mountain View.
Ruth Levitan has been writing poetry since she was ten years old. She has won
several awards and has had poems published in Poetalk,
Milvia Street, Women of the Fourteenth Moon, and
Remembering, in addition to producing four chapbooks. She writes "I
believe that writing poetry, like the practice of any art, is done in an
attempt to remain sane in a chaotic world. Sometimes it works."
Amy MacLennan is a Bay Area native. Her
work has been published in South Dakota Review and Lynx Eye.
Ziba Mahdavi grew up in Iran, and moved
to California in the mid-seventies. She works at Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center as Manager of Project Coordination for the Business Services Division.
She has a collection of poems, and she occasionally works on completing a
mystery novel and a children's book.
Beverly Acuff Momoi
has received several awards for her writing, including a Loft-McKnight Award
for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the anthologies, Looking for Home: Women
Writing About Exile and The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose
Poetry, and in journals such as River Styx, A View from the Loft, and Japanophile.
Charlotte Muse teaches and writes poetry.
She lives in Menlo Park.
Sharon Olson is a librarian at the Palo
Alto City Library. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Kalliope, Santa Clara Review, and The Seattle Review, and
in the anthologies Peace or Perish and Fire in the Hills. Her chapbook, Clouds
Brushed in Later, was selected by Carolyn Forché as
the winner of the first Abby Niebauer Memorial
Chapbook Award.
Richard M.
Rocco is a
medical researcher who works in the biotechnology industry in the San Francisco
Bay area. His poems have appeared in Chiron Review, Sarasota Review of Poetry,
Paterson Literary Review, and Forkroads, among
others.
Kathy St.Claire has won several awards for poetry and fiction. She lives and
writes in Menlo Park CA.
Gini Savage has two books of poetry, Natural Selection (a song cycle) and
Triad. Her work has appeared in Kumquat Meringue, Backspace, Convolvulus, and
The Squaw Review, among other journals. Three poems from her song cycle appear
on "The Faces of Love" CD with music by Jake Heggie,
and the entire cycle was sung by Nicolle Foland last
year at Lincoln Center.
Jim Standish, recently exiled from
California by the high cost of housing, still misses his homeland terribly, but
is gradually making his peace with Idaho. His most recent publications are in
the Spring 2001 issue of Connections, the magazine of the Idaho Writers
Connection, and the June 2001 edition of Snakeskin at
http://www.snakeskin.org.uk.
Jeanne Watson was born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania during the decline of the steel industry, the third of seven
children. She sought escape, connection, illumination, and consolation through
and with poetry from the age of twelve. Though possessed by her roots she
attempts to reach widely into the staggering joys and hidden sorrows that
living brings.