The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org              2010

 

 

 

 

Stephen Browning works as both poet and artist. He lives in Menlo Park—on Sand Hill Road, in fact—and remembers when that road was just a country lane through a field of oaks, back in 1950 or so when he was attending Stanford.  Of his triptych of linocuts in this issue he says: In "Death and the Child" the child is "on top,"  and sees the skeleton only as an opportunity for a piggyback ride. (The child is cheered on by its  parents in the background, who are feeling the  child's youth themselves. (Later they'll begin to feel old vis-a-vis their growing offspring.) In "Death and the Maiden," death is whispering in the ear of the young woman, saying, perhaps, "I'll get you, just wait and see." But the young woman is too entranced with her flowering to pay much attention. (Her companion has seen the truth of the situation and is "fleeing the scene.") In "Death and the Old Man" the situation in the first picture is reversed. The loyal dog is bent on protecting its master from this grinning interloper. (It also has an eye on all those bones!)

 

Peter Neil Carroll has written one book of poetry titled Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem (Higganum Hill Books, 2008). He reads frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poems have appeared recently in The Arkansas Review, The Monterey Poetry Review, and Heavy Bear (online).  He lives in Belmont, California, with the writer Jeannette Ferrary.  http://poetspace.ning.com/profile/PeterNeilCarroll is his website.

 

J. David Cummings has been published in Poetry Flash, Bellowing Ark, Convergence, Cuts From the Barber Shop, and several times in The Sand Hill Review. He reports that a long time ago he did physics with poetry as the sidecar. Now it’s the reverse. He also admits that on rare occasions under the cover of night he’ll sneak a bit of physics into a poem, although you’re not likely to know physics is the culprit in that line of “huh?”. Don’t ask him why the subterfuge. Perhaps he thinks being right out there with the physics terms is like empty name dropping. Otherwise, he likes poems to make some straightforward sense and to have an emotional core (one that’s not so deeply buried it might as well be a secret agent).

 

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

 

Margaret Davis lives in Belmont, CA.  Her debut novel, Straight Down the Middle (Kelso Books), was published in December, 2009.  She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and was a senior research sociologist at SRI International.  Later, she became the director of the internal management consulting section at Pacific Gas & Electric. In addition to her novel, she is also the author of two non-fiction books.  She is a member of the California Writers Club and has served on the board of the San Francisco/Peninsula Branch.  In 2005, she received the Louise Boggess Award for valuable services performed for the branch.  Visit Margaret at www.margaretdavisbooks.com.

 

Rebecca Foust’s book All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song won the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize and will be released in April 2010.  Also released in 2010 will be God, Seed (Tebot Bach Press), environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens. Two chapbooks, Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card, won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prizes in 2007 and 2008. 

 

James Hanna, fiction editor of the Sand Hill Review, 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 third book, The Farm, which depicts a riot in an Indiana penal facility.  He is looking for an agent to represent this book.

 

Tory Hartmann’s non-fiction has been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Mateo County Times, and Parenting on the Peninsula. Her fiction has been published in The Sand Hill Review, Descant, Hurricane Review, Homestead Review, Ship’s Log: Writings at Sea, Tattoo Highway as well as many others. Her screenplays include The Ghost of Harvey Milk and three episodes of The Powerhouse Kids. She is Managing Editor of Parenting on the Peninsula.

 

David Hirzel came to California from West Virginia by way of Florida, and now lives in Pacifica working as a residential building designer. Current publications include a poetry chapbook Sea Sonnets (lulu.com), an intermittent Green Building column in the Pacifica Tribune and the first two episodes of his ten-part audiodrama Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice (http://imaginationlane.net/tomcrean/) now available as a free MP3 download at.  His poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Plains Poetry Journal, Kansas Quarterly, Blue Unicorn, and other literary magazines.  Links, works-in-progress, and commentary appear in his blogs davidhirzel.net and davidhirzel.info.

 

Meredith Ittner, born and raised in the Midwest, lived on the East coast and in England and Australia before settling in the San Francisco Bay area. Having spent more than 30 years in publications as art editor, production manager, and technical writer, she now is a writer and editor for reports on education policy at SRI International, the research institute. In addition to writing poetry, she is a painter and collage artist. She is a passionate gardener; her work in the garden informs a keen eye for natural detail.

 

Stories and poems by Ray Keifetz have appeared in the Clackamas Literary Review, Plain Spoke, Other Voices, and the Dos Passos Review among others. He lives in Northern California. When not writing, he’s building furniture and selling wine for a living.

 

Davina Kotulski, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, life coach, and author of Why You Should Give A Damn About Gay Marriage. She has published several articles on marriage equality in Bond Magazine, Flawles Magazine, Bay Area Reporter, Outword Magazine, a poem in an anthology entitled I Do, I Don’t: Queers on Marriage; and an article on multicultural psychology in the Minnesota Psychologist. Her second non-fiction book on marriage equality for LGBT rights will be released in October 2009. Davina worked as a psychologist in the federal prison system for over twelve years and is seeking an agent for her novel set in a federal prison, currently titled Behind Barbed Eyes, about the relationship between a female armed bank robber shaken by nightmares and flashbacks from her crimes and a psychologist haunted by her own ghosts of the past.

 

Kate Ladew is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in Studio Art.

 

Justin T. Lotspeich’s goal is to obtain a Ph.D. in English and teach at the university level. The love for scholastics and writing did not find him until recently, but he is now focusing his efforts on joining the education and writing community.  His poetry has appeared in The Bohemian, with “Illinois Central” being his first published short story.

 

Elise Frances Miller has been an art critic and reviewer for several well‐known publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Art News, The Reader, and San Diego Magazine, for which she wrote a monthly column. While working in communications management at San Diego State University and later at Stanford University, she wrote short stories, made progress on two novels, and completed numerous workshops and classes in fiction writing. Her story Honey in the City was included in the 2007 Sand Hill Review and in 2008, she served as the SHR Fiction Editor. That year, she left her position at Stanford to continue working toward completion of her novel. She is currently on the board of the California Writers Club, SF/Peninsula Branch. Contact: elisefmiller at hotmail dot com.

 

Diane Lee Moomey is a sculptor, a writer, a gardener, a dreamer, and a storyteller who lives in El Granada, California. Her poetry and short prose have appeared in several publications including The Sand Hill Review, Writing For Our Lives,(Running Deer Press); The Love Project, (Anabasis); and Earth Prayers, (Roberts and Amidon, Harper-Collins). One prose piece “Grandmother, Geo­thermally Yours,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her newest work of literary fiction, …Place… (Day’sEye Press and Studios), will be published in the fall of 2010. Diane is a member of the California Writers’ Club, and reads frequently at Waverley Writers in Palo Alto, at the Not-Yet-Dead Poets’ Society in Redwood City, and at benefits for worthy causes.

 

Rita Mae Reese has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation award. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared or is forthcoming in journals and anthologies including The Normal School, Imaginative Writing, From Where You Dream, Blackbird, New England Review, The Southern Review, and The Nation. Her first book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, will be published by Arktoi Books in 2011.

 

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. http://www.joycesavreart.com is her website.

 

Marty Sorensen, the publisher of the Sand Hill Review,  is co-authoring with his wife, Charleyne Ward Marshall, a suspense thriller, Pike Place.

 

Colleen Sullivan. "My work is about movement and spontaneity, freedom and improvisation." Colleen was born in Montreal, Canada. Her work is jointly focused on the multiple aspects of printmaking, drawing, and painting. She is fascinated by the organic and abstract qualities of natural things. She keeps a studio in Palo Alto where she works and collaborates with other artists exploring their art in a variety mediums from textiles to sculpture, photography and video, etc.  http://cubberleyartists.com

 

JCWatson (Jeanne) was born in a Sardine Can on a truck route in Pittsburgh, PA.  Oxygen was scarce, but in the tiny attic where she escaped, she found writing made her feel she was real and not dead.  She has won many prizes and awards, including first place in the Montalvo Poetry Prize and second place in the Crone's Nest Annual Poetry contest.  Bellowing Ark has published 33 of her poems as well as short fiction, and additional publications include Arsenic Lobster, Americas Review, Iowa Woman, Monserrat Review, Santa Clara Review and The Sand Hill Review.  She also has a published novel, Current Wisdom, and two published short fictions, Reckless and The Flying Horse.  She has been a therapist for Autistic Children and an English Tutor for first generation American children. Finally, she wants to say that she is mostly intrepid and nearly always honest.

 

Jeffrey David Weitzel's fiction has appeared in Other, Farthing Magazine. and Flashquake. Jeff is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers' Workshop, and outside of his writing life, he lives and works in Silicon Valley.