Contributors
Kathy Abelson immigrated to California
from New Jersey
in 1961. She has a degree in Physics from UC Santa Cruz, and is a dropout of
the San Francisco State Creative Writing MFA program. Her poems have been
published in The Sand Hill Review, Writing For Our Lives, and San Jose Downtown
magazine, and featured on radio stations KKUP and KFJC. She works as a technical writer for a company
that sells software for designing integrated circuits. Her work last appeared
in The Sand Hill Review in Autumn 2001.
Kate Adams has been writing since her first short story came to
her at the age of twelve, filling page after page of a very surprised
notebook. She continues to fill pages while working as the Stanford University
Drama Department admin, now filling them with music as well, writing a show, Ghost Train, about the Stanfords.
Ellen Bass’s most recent book, Mules of Love (BOA Editions), won the
Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Among her other awards are the New Letters
Prize, the Larry Levis Prize from Missouri
Review, and a Pushcart Prize. She
teaches poetry and creative writing in Santa
Cruz, CA. http://www.ellenbass.com
Jean
Chacona was born in Washington, D.C.
and grew up in Ithaca, N.Y.
She has been published in several anthologies (Autumn Sun, Something
Like Homesickness, and While the Light Lasts), has recently
published a chapbook Night Drive to Ithaca and is a member of the
Waverley Writer’s poetry group in Palo
Alto, CA.
Maureen Eppstein, who grew up in New
Zealand, now lives in Mendocino, CA.
She is widely published, most recently in Bellowing Ark and Santa
Clara Review and forthcoming in Calyx. Her work last appeared in The Sand Hill Review in Spring 2001.
Jewelle Gomez is the author of seven books including three collections of
poetry—the most recent is Oral Tradition from Firebrand Books. Her novel,
The Gilda Stories, has just appeared in its special, 13th anniversary
edition. Visit her at http://www.jewellegomez.com/.
Robert Hoppensteadt's poems have appeared in issues of the Bay Area Poetry Coalition's
Poetalk and The Pacifica Tribune, and are forthcoming in the Bellowing
Ark. He is a
regular reader and participant at the Pacifica Poetry Forum and the Waverley
Writers group, and has been a featured poet at many venues including the annual
Pacifica Poetry Festival. The Saturday Poets (http://www.saturdaypoets.org/),
his "home" writing group, sponsors a popular poetry night each 3rd
Wednesday at Il Piccolo in Burlingame
where he emcees a featured poet and open mic.
Robert also writes fiction, and his first novel, Into Wild Places,
an adventure set in a post-apocalyptic San
Francisco, is available from most internet bookstores.
David Humphreys is founder of Poet's Corner, a poetry reading series audio/text
website located at http://www.poetscornerpress.com/.
He publishes chapbooks and books of poetry through the Poet's Corner Press, has
had two of his own books published and has recently had work featured in Perihelion:
Web Del Sol, The Montserrat Review, Cæsura, Poetry Depth
Quarterly and Rattlesnake.
Rita Kasperek graduated with an MFA in
Creative Writing from the University
of Arizona, where she was
awarded a fellowship and nominated for the Nelson Algren Award. A writer who
moonlights as an editor and instructor, she is working on a novel and a TV show
pilot.
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 is presently working on a novel. Her work last appeared
in The Sand Hill Review in Autumn 2001.
Deborah Marshall teaches English in Japan
and is working on a first novel. A short story has been published in JETStream and another is a winner of a
short fiction contest in Japanzine.
Toni Mirosevich is the author of The Rooms We Make Our Own (Firebrand Books) and co-author of Trio: Toni Mirosevich, Charlotte Muse,
Edward Smallfield (Specter Press). Her fiction, poetry and essays have
appeared in Kenyon Review, The Progressive, The Best American Travel Writing—2002, Zyzzyva, Five Fingers Review, Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly,
and elsewhere. New work appeared recently or is forthcoming in Bellevue
Literary Review, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Hunger Mountain, LUNA, First
Intensity, and in the anthologies Against
Certainty: Poets for Peace Anthology (Chapiteau Press, 2003), Revenge and Forgiveness (Holt, 2003),
and The Impossible Will Take A Little
While (Basic Books, 2004). She is an Associate Professor of Creative
Writing at San Francisco
State University.
Erica Olsen
lives in San Francisco.
Her writing has appeared in ZYZZYVA and other literary magazines, and
she was recently awarded a residency through the San Juan National Forest
Artist-in-Residence Program in southwestern Colorado.
Angela Narciso Torres received her Masters from Harvard Graduate School of
Education. Her poetry appears in North
American Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, and in the anthology Going Home to a Landscape: Writings by
Filipinas (Calyx 2003), and is forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review. She received 2nd prize in the 2003 James
Hearst Poetry Prize competition. She lives in Santa Clara, CA.
JCWatson was
born in Pittsburgh, PA. She began writing early and never
stopped, obtaining a Master's in English, Creative Writing in 1992. She is published in Iowa Woman, Crones Nest, Americas Review, Chester H. Jones, Coast
Light, Montserrat Review, Santa Clara Review and Bellowing Ark. Currently teaching Special Needs Children, she has
also written four short fictions, one published in Bellowing Ark, and two novels and one novella that are looking for
good homes. She gardens like a mad woman and is a killer cook. Her work last
appeared in The Sand Hill Review in Autumn
2001.
Louise Grassi Whitney has published in
numerous journals including Bellowing Ark, Sojourner, Habersham Review, Black River Review, and Atlanta
Review. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry is included in
two anthologies.