Gail Barchfeld is a frequent visitor to the Sierra Nevada, the inspiration for Desolation. She plans on more fun, both in the mountains and with writing.
Thomas Bynoe
graduated from Towson State University in Maryland with a Bachelor's degree in
English. He is currently a short story fiction writer pretending to be a
full-time Web Developer in New York City. He has several writers’
workshops under his belt including an NYU fiction writers workshop, The
Writer's Voice fiction workshop in New York, and the Advanced Science Fiction
Writers workshop from Towson. Thomas is driven to writing stories which
place mundane characters in extraordinary and surreal situations.
Elizabeth Biller Chapman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and following her graduation from Smith College, did graduate work at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham, U.K., and Columbia University, from which she received her M.A. and Ph.D. respectively. Formerly a teacher of Renaissance literature—and for twenty years a psychotherapist in private practice—her chapbook Creekwalker was published by (M)other Tongue Press (Salt Spring Island, B.C.) as the winner of their 1995 international chapbook competition. In 1999, Bellowing Ark Press (Shoreline, Washington) published her first full-length collection, First Orchard. Individual poems have appeared in Yankee, Poetry, The Texas Observer, Blueline, and many other periodicals. Recently, one of her poems was selected by Robert Creeley for inclusion in the forthcoming The Best American Poetry 2002. She lives happily in Palo Alto with her husband, Richard F. Chapman, two cats and a lovely garden.
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 a California Poet in the Schools. She has a poem forthcoming in Tundra.
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.
Ann Hillesland is writing a collection of sports-themed short stories and has a story forthcoming in The MacGuffin.
Esther Kamkar was born in
Tehran, Iran and has been living in the US for thirty years. She began to write
poetry twelve years ago. She lives with her family in the Bay Area.
Muriel Karr lives in Sunnyvale, CA. Her two poetry collections, Toward Dawn (2002) and Shape of Pear (1996), are both available from Bellowing Ark Press.
Jacklyn M. MARDEROSIAN writes “I am a poet with a day job at Stanford. I have been an active poet in Palo Alto for at least 12 years and have hosted the Gates of Hell open reading in the Rodin Garden for about the same amount of time. For details just drop me a line at jacklynm@stanford.edu.”
William Minor has published several books of poetry, including Pacific Grove, For Women Missing or Dead, Goat Pan, Natural Counterpoint, Poet Santa Cruz: Number 4, and Some Grand Dust (Chatoyant, 2002). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. His short fiction has appeared in Best Little Magazine Fiction and The Colorado Quarterly Centennial Edition. He is also a jazz writer with over 150 articles to his credit. He has published two books on music: Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union and Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years, and a third, Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within, will be published by the University of Michigan Press in October, 2003. You can find more about his prodigious output at www.bminor.org.
Henrietta Mosley writes poetry, short stories and travel pieces. She has written a novel set in Colorado’s historic Arkansas River Valley and is currently engaged in local history research in Southern California.
Robert Noriega has spent his adult life working at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and has recently begun writing stories.
Erica Olsen lives in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared recently in ZYZZYVA and High Country News.
Martin F. Sorensen is the editor of the Sand Hill Review and previously edited Dimension. He has written a novel, The Madrones of Magnolia Bluff, and is writing a new thriller.
Jim Stanfield is the author of the
novels Humbert and Venus Pizza. His
work has been published in The Exphorizer, The
Intelligencer, Gargoyle and Graffiti and previously in the Sand
Hill Review.
Eve Sutton teaches Poetry at Palo Alto Adult School, and directed the Palo Alto Writers Conference in June 2002. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Bellowing Ark, and West Wind Review. She was the winner of the Poetry Society of America's Emily Dickinson Award, and now helps other poets to edit and submit their work for publications and contests.
Michael Dylan Welch is editor and publisher of Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem, Press Here haiku and tanka books, and contributing editor of Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society. He is also the president of the Tanka Society of America, a past vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and co-founder of the American Haiku Archives at the California State Library in Sacramento and the biennial Haiku North America conference. He has poems in anthologies from Norton, Kodansha, Tuttle, Andrews-McMeel, and other publishers. Originally from England, he recently moved from California to Washington.