The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2006

Contributors

Jennifer Swanton Brown published her first poem in the Palo Alto Times when she was in the fifth grade. She has degrees in Linguistics, German Literature, and Nursing, and has worked as an RN, a bureaucrat, a consultant, and is currently a medical/technical writer. Ms. Brown has been a poet/teacher with California Poets in the Schools since 2001, a member of the Waverley Writers group in Palo Alto since 1986, and part of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers since 1989. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Tundra, Disquieting Muses, The Sand Hill Review, Tangents, and other journals. Ms. Brown is currently pursuing a Masters in Liberal Arts from Stanford University. She is a two-time recipient of a Fine Arts Commission grant from the City of Cupertino, where she lives with her husband and two children.

Richard A. Burns is a former failure analysis engineer, working in quality-systems 29 years at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies. He has dabbled in light verse since high school (1961), and has copyrighted over 35 original country and children's songs including You’re 39 Again, Restless, Ordinary Woman, and Sleepyland (A Lullaby). His passions include improving education and job opportunities for the next generations. Born in Burbank, Richard obtained his BSEE at UC Santa Barbara, an MBA at the University of Utah, and served in the Air Force. He is married and has two grown daughters. He is a member of the South Bay branch of the California Writers Club. Check out http://www.richsays.net for more.

Maureen Eppstein, who lives in Mendocino, CA, has been published in Calyx, Blue Unicorn, The Sand Hill Review and numerous other journals. She is determined to parlay Honorable Mentions in several national poetry book contests into a winning manuscript. A former Stanford staffer, she serves on the planning committee of the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference (http://www.mcwc.org/ ).

Robert A. Garfinkle is a native of Alameda and now resides with his family in Union City, California. Robert graduated from California State University, Hayward with BA degrees in History (1975) and English Literature (1994). He is the author of "Star-Hopping: Your Visa to Viewing the Universe" (Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1997) and a co-author of "Advanced Skywatching" (The Nature Company, Time-Life Books, 1997). Robert has published numerous astronomy articles and short fiction in national and international publications, such as: Astronomy, Selenology, Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (JALPO), Journal of the British Astronomical Association, and Short Story International. Robert serves on the editorial staff of JALPO. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. For over 25 years, he was a Senior Technical Writer. Robert serves as the representative for his South Bay branch of the California Writers Club to the  club's Central Board. He recently received the award for best fiction piece submitted to the South Bay Branch Newsletter.

Muriel Karr has published two books of poetry, Shape of Pear and Toward Dawn (both from Bellowing Ark Press). She has appeared in previous issues of The Sand Hill Review.

Jim Keim is a coauthor of the book, The Violence of Men (Jossey-Bass, 1995). He is also a social worker and threat assessment specialist with a special interest in human trafficking. He teaches clinical workshops in Southeast Asia but resides in the Bay Area of California. Jim is a member of the Peninsula Branch of the California Writers Club.

Dave LaRoche, young captain of log rafts down swollen Missouri creeks, explorer of deep limestone crevasses and heavily brambled woods, brings his mid-western recollections to short fiction focused on moral dilemma—an interest, he says, that attached from his rearing in the show-me state where “do-unto-others” is often supplanted by a rigorous get even and stay even. Dave is the managing editor of WritersTalk, a sixteen page monthly from the South Bay Branch of the California Writers Club.

Beverly Acuff Momoi has had poems published in the anthologies Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile, Cloud View Poets, and The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry, as well as in journals such as River Styx, Reed, and A View from the Loft.  Her work last appeared in The Sand Hill Review in Fall 2001.

Juliana Richmond lives in Los Gatos, CA, and is a member of the South Bay branch of the California Writers Club.  She has been published in Across the Generations, Volumes VI and VIII, and Second Harvest, Life Stories of the Twentieth Century.  She is currently working on a Memoir, Dancing Mama.

Lauren Rusk's poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies in the United States and United Kingdom, including Best New Poets 2005, in which she won one of two open-competition prizes. In addition, she has published a critical study, The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson (Routledge, 2002).  She teaches literature and writing at Stanford University and lives part of each year in Oxford, England.

b.b. wei was born in Shanghai, educated in England and pursued a career in media production and marketing in London and Hong Kong. She published her first short story in China at the age of 15, and, five years later, her first novella appeared in the World Journal (Hong Kong) Literary Supplement. wei’s publications include poems, short stories, film criticism and essays. She recently completed a 400-page novel in her second language, English.