Judith Bishop
is from New England and New York City but has been living in California over
twenty years. Her degree is in writing from Columbia, and she won the Academy
of American Poets University Prize—judged by Auden and Marianne Moore—when she
graduated. She has had her own press and worked as a book designer, teacher,
and symphonic violinist. She was an editor of Coastlight,
an anthology of Northern California poetry, and has published in many magazines
and anthologies, including Kalliope, Taos
Review, Nimrod, and americus
review. She won the 1991 Five Fingers Review Chapbook Award for The
Longest Light, and her first full book is The Burning Place, Fithian 1994. Her second book, Snow Mountain: The
Health of the Healers, has been a finalist several times and she “hopes
it’s warming up for a hit!”
Janel
Burnett is a pacifist and poet living in Mountain
View, California. Her poems have appeared in The Eagle: New England's
American Indian Journal, Caesura, and elsewhere. She says,
"Once a poem arises as a gift, the task is to locate its musical
notation."
Mary-Marcia Casoly
has a degree in Creative Writing and Art from San Francisco State. Her poems
have appeared in Alchemy, Bellowing Ark, Chrysanthemum, The
Montserrat Review, and local anthologies.
Many of her poems were inspired by travels to far off places such as
Australia and Thailand. She serves on the Steering Committee of Waverley
Writers, a South Bay poetry forum, which meets once a month in Palo Alto. Her
first book, Run To Tenderness, is forthcoming by Pantograph and Goldfish
Press.
April Eiler
has been a dancer for over 50 years with progressively lower standards and a
writer for over 40 years with progressively higher standards. Her poems
have appeared in many publications including Bellowing Ark, Blue Unicorn,
The Comstock Review and The Montserrat Review
Christina Glass
lives and writes stories and screenplays in Salt Lake City.
Bill Kirk grew up in
the east, moved west, worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center for 40
years, edited a semi-scientific journal, retired, and rewrote an old
story. May write a new story.
Janet
Krauss has published
her poetry widely in such journals as Plainsongs, American Goat, Spoon
River Quarterly, Jewish Currents, and College English. She
was nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice, most recently in 1995. She is an
adjunct professor at Fairfield University and St. Basil in Connecticut, where
she tries to impress upon her students that learning and understanding occur
through the written word. She feels her own work reflects her need through her
love of language to comprehend situations, scenes and feelings that affect her.
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.