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Terry Adams' book, Adam's
Ribs, came out last summer from Off The Grid Press, in Weld, Maine. He has had poems in Poetry Magazine, The Sun, and many other journals. He restored
and lives, with his wife, Eva, in Ken Kesey's
infamous house in La Honda, CA, and works as Public Works Director for the
community of La Honda. http://web.mac.com/ta56ek/Site/The_Site.html
is his website.
Ellen Bass's poetry books include The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press,
2007) and Mules of Love (BOA
Editions, 2002). She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific
University
and at conferences and retreats nationally and internationally. http://www.ellenbass.com.
Dan Bellm’s third book of poetry, Practice, came out from Sixteen Rivers
Press in San
Francisco in March 2008. His
translations of fiction and poetry from Spanish have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Two Lines, The Kenyon
Review, The Village Voice, The Berkeley Poetry Review,
Literary Imagination, and other journals and anthologies. His
translations of twenty prose poems by the French poet Pierre Reverdy are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review. His translation of Laura Gallego García’s novel, The Legend of the Wandering King
(Scholastic), was an ALA Notable Book for Children and a School Library
Journal Outstanding International Book for 2006. Andrés Ramírez’s
poems were taken from his recent book, Zapping
(Universidad de Guanajuato, 2006), which Bellm
encountered during a trip to Guanajuato last year. Another of his
translations of this poet will appear in a forthcoming issue of Nimrod focusing on Mexico.
Jennifer
Swanton Brown
published her first poem in the Palo
Alto Times when she was in the fifth grade. She has studied Linguistics, German
Literature, and Nursing, and works as a clinical research educator at Stanford
University.
Jennifer has been a poet/teacher with California Poets in the Schools since
2001. She has been active with Waverley Writers in Palo Alto
since 1986, and first joined the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in 1989.
Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in multiple local journals.
Jennifer is currently writing her thesis on Irish poet Eavan
Boland for the Masters in Liberal Arts program at 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.
Mary-Marcia Casoly
is a native San Franciscan who currently lives in Palo Alto. She has a degree in Creative Writing from San
Francisco State University. Mary-Marcia is a steering committee member
of Waverley Writers, a poetry venue in the South
Bay.
She has been featured online on Big Bridge
(www.bigbridge.org) and The Tower Journal (www.towerjournal.com). Her book Run to Tenderness, published by Pantograph Press and Goldfish
Press, is available at Small Press Distribution in Berkeley,
CA.
Although
born into a literary family—parents edited and published The Writer magazine and The
Writer’s Handbook—Elizabeth
Chapman did not write her first poem until she was forty-three. Since then, however, her work has appeared
in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Bellevue
Literary Review, Image and The
Texas Observer. Her poem “On the Screened Porch” was included in Best American Poetry, 2002. Creekwalker,
her 1995 chapbook, won the (M)other Tongue Press international competition,
and her collection, Candlefish, was
published in 2004 by University of Arkansas Press. It was one of four manuscripts chosen that
year by Enid Shomer as part of their Poetry Series.
Chapman earned her B.A. from Smith
College,
her M.A. from the Shakespeare Institute, and her Ph.D. from Columbia University; spent
seventeen years as a psychotherapist; and has taught at Claremont McKenna,
Radcliffe, Scripps and Smith Colleges.
She lives in Palo Alto, California.
Janice Dabney is the Poetry Editor of The Sand Hill Review and works as
Special Assistant to the COO at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Her
work has appeared in numerous literary journals over the last thirty-five
years. She appreciates the opportunity to read the work of SHR contributors
and help Marty Sorensen produce such a fine journal.
Jewelle
Gomez is the
author of seven books including the double Lambda Literary Award-winning
novel, The Gilda Stories. Her
adaptation of the novel for the stage was commissioned by Urban Bush Women
Company and toured 13 US cities. She's a lesbian feminist activist who's
worked in philanthropy for more than 20 years. Her forthcoming novel is
entitled Televised and chronicles
the survivors of the Black Nationalist movement. She is also working on a play about James
Baldwin. Visit her at www.jewellegomez.com
Lara Gularte
earned an M.F.A. degree from San Jose State University
where she received several Phelan Awards and the Anne Lillis Award for
Creative Writing. A previous
contributor to The Sand Hill Review,
her poetry has appeared in such journals as the Hiram Poetry Review, the Evansville
Review, Bitter Oleander, The Fourth
River,
the Monserrat Review, Windfall, Kaleidoscope, Santa Clara Review,
and Watershed, and has been
translated into Portuguese by the University of the Azores.
Her work was presented at an international conference on storytelling
and cultural identity in June of 2005.
In July of 2008 she was a resident poet at the Footpaths to Creativity
Writer's Residency and Retreat on Flores
Island
in the Azores. She is an assistant poetry editor for Narrative Magazine.
The
new fiction editor for the Review is James
Hanna, who wandered Australia for seven
years before settling on a career in criminal justice. He spent twenty years as a counselor in the
Indiana Department of Correction and is presently a probation officer in San Francisco. James' short stories have appeared in Old Crow Review, Sandhills
Review, Edge City Review,
and The Sand Hill Review. Two of these stories were nominated for the
Pushcart Prize. James has recently
completed his second novel, The Farm. It depicts a riot in an Indiana penal facility. He is looking for an agent to represent
this book. You can send your fiction to submissions at sandhillreview dot org.
John Hutton grew up in Northern California and has been writing
poetry since the late 1980s. 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 Waverly Writers reading in Palo Alto.
He has been featured in Los Angeles,
San Francisco,
and Austin, TX.
His work has been published in The Sand
Hill Review and Fresh Hot Bread.
He is a working aerospace engineer and lives in Mountain View,
CA with his wife.
Phyllis
Koestenbaum
is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks, among them Criminal Sonnets and Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies, a collection of prose poems. Her work has been published widely in
anthologies and textbooks, including in two volumes of The Best American Poetry, in Court
Green and Sentence. Her essay, "The Secret Climate the
Year I Stopped Writing," was one of the Notable Essays of 2007 listed in
The Best American Essays 2008. A recipient of awards from the National
Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, she is a Senior
Scholar at Stanford University's Clayman Institute
for Gender Research.
Sharon Olson recently moved to Guilford, Connecticut from Palo Alto, California. She retired
(after 29 years) from her position as reference librarian and cataloger at
the Palo Alto City Library. Her chapbook Clouds
Brushed in Later won the Abby Niebauer Memorial
Chapbook award in 1987, and her full-length book The Long Night of Flying was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in
2006. Her poems have appeared in Kalliope, The Seattle
Review, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals and anthologies. She has
new work in Caduceus (published by
the Yale
Medical Group Art Place) and in U.S. 1 Worksheets (published by the
U.S. 1 Poets' Cooperative in Princeton, NJ). Since moving to Guilford
she has become an active member of the Guilford Poets Guild, and the salt
marshes have replaced the Baylands as favorite
walks.
Robert Perry is a poet, book artist and
graphic designer who lives and works in Palo Alto,
California. He
designs and produces books in limited editions and as unique, stand alone
works of art, combining poetry and visual imagery.
Years
of editing nonfiction led Palmer Pinney to see the value of Quintilian’s advice “to
write not merely so that the reader can understand but so that he cannot
possibly misunderstand.” But that advice, which produces the prose equivalent
of Danish furniture, is ill-suited to poetry, and Palmer now tries to be
knobbier in the poems he has published in The
Sand Hill Review and Fresh Hot
Bread and read at Gallery 2611 and Not Yet Dead Poets Society in Redwood City and at
Waverley Writers in Palo Alto.
Andrés Ramírez,
whose work is translated by Dan Bellm for this
issue, is a poet and editor born in Tetelcingo,
Morelos, in 1972. Zapping is his
third book of poetry; he has also appeared in the anthologies Anuario de poesía mexicana (ed. David Huerta) and Los mejores poemas
mexicanos (ed. Elsa Cross). He is currently
literary director of Random House Mondadori in Mexico City.
Joyce Savre continues to work part time
at Stanford Hospital as
a psychiatric RN besides her work as an artist and poet. Her love of words
and respect for language were evident in much of her earlier art where
writing (though unreadable) was incorporated in one of the layers of mixed
media. More recently, writing and
language and using our wonderful words (as in negotiating with other
countries versus war) has become the
subject of her work. Her website is http://www.joycesavreart.com.
Eve Sutton returns to The Sand Hill Review after a few years
spent establishing a home for homeless cats who sleep and hide in boxes on
her front porch.
Angela Narciso Torres
was born in Brooklyn,
New York and grew up in Manila,
Philippines. Her poems have appeared in various journals
and anthologies, including Crab Orchard
Review, North American Review, Asian Pacific American Journal, Rattle,
and the anthology Going Home to a
Landscape: Writings by Filipinas (Calyx 2003). She received second place
in the 2003 James Hearst Poetry Competition. A recent transplant to Chicago
from the San Francisco Bay Area, Angela is a graduate of the Warren Wilson
MFA Program for Writers.
Ollie Mae Trost Welch
has a degree from San Francisco State University
in Creative Writing and English Lit. Her memoir was published recently in Springfield Magazine. She grew up on a
farm in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri. She is seventy-eight years old and
still plays tennis regularly. She is a member of the California Writers Club
(the San Francisco/Peninsula Branch), is a watercolor and charcoal/pencil
portrait artist in addition to a student of classical piano, and she also
sings at weddings.
Meg Withers is an old-time hippie,
writer, teacher, and community activist.
She writes when she can – usually in between correcting homework and
encouraging the community where she lives to take action on civil rights
issues. She currently teaches at Los Baños
Community College.
She loves cats. Meg has two published
books of poetry: Must Be Present to Win
(2006), and A Communion of Saints
(TinFish, 2008).
She has been nationally anthologized, earning both her MA and MFA from
San Francisco State University,
but not before she did a hefty amount of running around the planet high on
life and various other substances. Her
next book, Shadowed: The Disappearing
Woman, is being written in partnership with Joell
Hallowell, a videographer and photographer, and will utilize old black and
white photos honoring women with prose poems written by women poets. Her current personal poetry project is a
series of etymological poems with Chaucer’s Middle English incorporated into
them. The book is entitled, The Etymology of Desire. Meg Withers is a busy person, but her
belief is that she’ll have plenty of time to rest when she’s dead.
Patricia Zylius
was a member of the pioneer class at UCSC and has lived in Santa Cruz
ever since, in the same house for the last thirty-eight years, where she
raised two sons. She makes a living as a freelance copyeditor. This is, in
fact, an incurable syndrome. She gets paid to edit a variety of material,
including software documentation, academic and professional books, booklets
and articles for nonprofit organizations, and CD release notes. She gardens,
practices tai chi, walks, and listens mostly to music written before 1750 and
jazz. Her poems have appeared in the Porter
Gulch Review, the Monterey Poetry
Review, the Good Times Weekly,
and Caesura. Three of her poems
have been selected for inclusion in the forthcoming anthology Rising From the Ashes: Poets on Loss.
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