Contributors
Len Anderson is the author of Affection for the Unknowable
(Hummingbird Press, 2003). He is also a
physicist and has done research in elementary particle physics and developed
sensors for the automation of paper manufacturing. He is a co-founder of Poetry Santa Cruz and
lives in Santa Cruz
County.
Mary-Marcia Casoly has a degree from San
Francisco State University
in Creative Writing and Art. Her poems
have appeared in The Monserrat Review, The Café Review, So Luminous the
Wildflowers: An Anthology of California
Poethttp://www.sandhillreview.orgs
and online journals, The Muse Apprentice
Guild and Convergence, and
elsewhere. She serves on the Steering Committee of Waverley Writers, a South
Bay poetry forum which meets once a
month in Palo Alto.
Her book, Run to Tenderness, was
published by Pantograph Press and Goldfish Press.
Gail Howard
Clark is founder/1984 & director of Clark Poetry
Seminars held quarterly on the Monterey
coast. A featured poet at the 17th Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival &
member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers for three summers, she has work
forthcoming in the 2005 Cloud View Anthology & in Solo, a journal of
poetry, Fall 2005. Her poems have appeared in Calapooya
Collage, Coastal Plains Poetry, Fresh Hot Bread, Lip Service, Misnomer, Puddinghouse and The Odessa Review.
David Cummings has been published in Poetry Flash, Bellowing
Ark, The Sand Hill Review,
Cuts
From the Barber Shop and Convergence.
He reports that he once did physics and poetry was a side interest; now it's
the other way around! He also admits that every once in while, as a sort of
secret ingredient, he likes to mix some physics into his poetry.
Janice Dabney is the Poetry Editor
of The Sand Hill Review and enjoys the opportunity to read such
excellent submissions. She is a Safety Officer at Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center (SLAC) when she is not writing poetry. Her work has been published in
such journals as Poetry Northwest, Santa Clara Review, and Hayden’s
Ferry Review, and online at SF Station and Convergence. Her
chapbook is entitled Connections (RoJo Press,
2000).
Patrick Daly works as an information architect and
writes poetry and fiction on his lunch hours. He is the author of the chapbook Playing
with Fire, which won the Abby Niebauer Memorial
Prize in 1996.
J. P.
Dancing Bear has published in Shenandoah, Poetry
International, Poetry East, Mississippi Review,
New Orleans
Review, National Poetry Review and many others. He is the editor of the American Poetry
Journal and the host of "Out of Our Minds" a weekly poetry program on
public radio station KKUP. His latest book
of poems is Billy Last Crow (Turning Point, 2004).
April Eiler wishes she were more interesting and famous than she is. She has been a Palo
Alto poet, dancer and political activist since
1967. She is open to imaginary details
being added to her bio, such as how she runs a raccoon farm and dreams of
playing fiddle in a country band.
Angela Howe-Decker has had poems
published in The Comstock Review, The Wisconsin
Review, The Red Rock Review, Hip Mama, and online at SF Station
and Convergence. Her work will also appear in the upcoming 2005 Tebot Bach anthology of California
poets. Angela has also been featured at Waverley
Writers in Palo
Alto, and received a first place award in the 2004
Ina Coolbrith Circle poetry contest.
John Hutton grew up in Northern California
and has been writing poetry since the late 1980’s. His topics cover a wide
range, from dogs to love to social and economic issues. In Southern
California, he was a founding member of the Redondo Poets. John is
a regular at the Waverley Writers reading in Palo
Alto. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in
Physics and Astrophysics as well as a Master’s degree from the University
of Texas at Austin
in Aerospace Engineering. He is employed as an aerospace engineer and lives in Mountain
View, California.
Amy MacLennan has been published or
has work forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Wisconsin Review, Rattle,
Controlled Burn, South Dakota
Review, and Folio. One of her poems was included in So Luminous
the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot
Bach).
Amy Miller’s poetry, fiction, and essays have
appeared in many literary journals, most recently Rattapallax,
Faultline, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review,
and Fourteen Hills. She received the Whiskey Island Poetry Prize in 2003.
Charlotte
Muse loves, writes, and teaches poetry in Menlo
Park. She
rejoices, despairs, cooks, and grows old in Menlo
Park. Also she
teaches reading to Hispanic children and searches for meaning in the brutalized
world from Menlo Park. She has spent a good deal of time--though not
enough--at the bottom of the creek, watching butterflies.
John Nimmo has published poems in
Rattle, Stirring, Snakeskin, Half Drunk Muse, Convergence, Poetalk, Electric Acorn, and Sidereality.
In 2002 he won first prize for rhymed verse in the Foster City International
Writers Contest. He has studied with accomplished poets including Sharon Olds,
Kim Addonizio, and Dick Maxwell. He lives in Mountain
View, California, and
works as an environmental physicist specializing in groundwater issues. http://www.rubydoor.org/jnpoet/jnpoet.html
is his poetry website.
Lisa Ortiz’s poems have appeared in Princeton
Arts Review, Poesy, Literary Mama, Tryst, and Split
Verse: Poems to Heal Your Heart, and she has been a featured reader at
several Bay Area venues including Monticello Inn Literary Series in San
Francisco, Il Piccolo Reading
Series in Burlingame and Poetry21 at Art21 in Palo
Alto.
Robert
Perry
is a poet and artist who enjoys making books.
He lives in Palo Alto.
Mary Petrosky is a
freelance writer. She lives in San
Mateo with her husband, two children, and two cats.
Palmer Pinney grew up in New
Jersey, went to college in Chicago,
and has worked in Manhattan, then Palo
Alto and Menlo Park, and then deep
in Silicon Valley, making a living in these
places by earnestly moving words around.
Stephen Riddle graduated from college and went right into janitorial
work. This seems to be his calling.
Friends he keeps accept this. Describes himself as a typical Fundamentalist
Christian Gay Naturist Blue Collar Intellectual Conservative Iconoclast. Thinks
of himself as attractive sometimes, but tries not to be too obvious. Is way past or at least into middle-age and
still is not famous.
Harlan Suits grew up in Ohio,
then moved to California
to earn a degree in English and American literature at Stanford. He is the
founder of a monthly poetry group that has been meeting on the Peninsula
for the last four years. His poetry has appeared in the Waverley Writers’
Fresh Hot Bread.