The Sand Hill Review               http://www.sandhillreview.org 2011

Sally Ashton is a poet, writer, teacher, and editor of the DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. She is author of Some Odd Afternoon (BlazeVOX, 2010), a prose poem collection, Her Name Is Juanita (Kore Press, 2009), and a chapbook These Metallic Days. Poems also appear in An Introduction to the Prose Poem, and Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes. She is the current Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County.

Helene Barber attended California College of the Arts as well as the San Francisco Art Institute.  She studied with Jack Jefferson as well as Wally Hedrick.  She has taught art classes on the Peninsula for many years. Her work has been shown in the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Palace of Legion of Honor, The Oakland Museum, the  de Saisset at Santa Clara University as well as the Crocker Museum in Sacramento. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Francesca Bell’s work has appeared in, among other journals, Willow Springs, The Sun, Nimrod, North American Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Work is forthcoming in slipstream, RATTLE, Solo Novo, Spillway, and 5 AM. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2008.

Janice Dabney is a native Californian and loves walks by the ocean with her partner Lorraine. She is a currently a documentation specialist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she has worked in various capacities since 1983. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and she enjoys the chance to interact with other poets in her capacity as The Sand Hill Review Poetry Editor.

Patrick Daly writes poetry and prose on his lunch hours. His poetry has been published in Nicholas Kristof’s column in the New York Times and has received honorable mention in the Pushcart Prizes. His chapbook, Playing with Fire, won the Abby Niebauer Memorial Prize. He and his wife Charlotte Muse were the co-founders of Out of Our Minds, the prime-time poetry show (now in its twenty-fourth year) on KKUP radio in Cupertino, California. Poems of his have appeared most recently in the anthology The Place that Inhabits Us (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010) and in Transfer 100, the anniversary edition of the San Francisco State literary magazine; and—for the second year in a row—he has just received an award in the Basil Bunting Awards at University of Newcastle in England.

Catherine Freeling lives in Berkeley, California, and appreciates its many theatres, parks, and footpaths. Since retiring from a career as a public school teacher, she has more time to write, though it never seems like enough. Her poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Alimentum, New Ohio Review, Georgetown Review, and other publications.

Jewelle Gomez is the author of seven books including the double Lambda Literary Award winning vampyre novel, The Gilda Stories, which is celebrating its 20th year in print. Her new play about writer/activist James Baldwin, Waiting for Giovanni, will open at New Conservatory Theatre in August 2011. On the web: www.jewellegomez.com. Follow her @VampyreVamp.

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' stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Old Crow Review, Sandhills Review, Edge City Review, Fault Zone, Eclipse and The Sand Hill Review. Two of these stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. James has recently completed his third book, The Siege, which depicts a riot in an Indiana penal facility. He is looking for an agent to represent this book. Visit James at willwriteforfood.org.

Muriel Karr formerly taught French and German at colleges in Indiana and Maine. Her first two poetry books are available from Bellowing Ark Press. She has been working on a third collection.

Bardi Rosman Koodrin, M.A. As literary director for the San Mateo County Fair, Rosman Koodrin enjoys giving writers a presence and a voice on her stage. She serves as the PR Chair and board member for the San Francisco/Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club. Moderator of the Healing is a Journey chat room for over a decade, she has contributed health and wellness columns for sanbruno.patch.com. She is Chair of the San Bruno Culture & Arts Commission; and is a volunteer segment producer and on-camera interviewer for Senior Moments, a San Bruno Cable TV program. The Midpeninsula Community Media Center is honoring her with its 2011 Local Hero Award for her community service and inspirational story of living well despite chronic pain. Bardi has authored three novels: Journey to the Other Side; Bruja; and The Mud-Eater’s Apprentice; written numerous short stories; and illustrated three health-related book and magazine covers. Her work has been published in Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association; Razor’s Edge; We Laughed, We Cried: Life with Fibromyalgia; Journey to the Light; and Fault Zone: Words from the Edge. Visit her at www.bardirosmankoodrin.com.

The art of Leslie Lambert begins as a meditation on the fascinating geometry of the human figure. Intuitive, spontaneous drawing and painting often combines with the studied application of transfer imagery and collage, allowing the artist to build a multi-layered and fragmented world where the viewer might recognize herself. Lambert was raised in West Virginia, graduated with a BFA from Arizona State University and maintains a studio in Palo Alto. To contact, see www.leslielambert.com, www.paloaltostudios.com, or email her at lazure@pacbell.net.

Eva Langston recently received her MFA from the University of New Orleans.  Her fiction has been published in Talking River Review and The Normal School and she won third place in the 2010 Playboy Fiction Contest.  Currently she lives in Washington, DC and works as a high school math teacher. 

Robert McGowan’s fiction and essays are published in several dozen prominent literary journals in America and abroad, including Chautauqua Literary Journal, Connecticut Review, Etchings (Australia), The Louisiana Review, New Walk Magazine (UK), and South Dakota Review, have been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and have been anthologized. McGowan is the author of the forthcoming story collections, NAM: Things That Weren’t True and Other Stories (Meridian Star Press (UK) 2011) and Stories from the Art World (Thumbnail Press, 2011). His work as an artist is in numerous private, corporate, and public collections internationally. Robert McGowan lives in Memphis.

A. Molotkov is a writer, composer, filmmaker and visual artist, and co-founder of the Inflectionist poetry movement (Inflectionism.com).  Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, he moved to the U.S. in 1990 and switched to writing in English in 1993.  He is the author of several novels, short story and poetry collections and the winner of the 2010 New Millennium Writings and the 2008 E. M. Koeppel Awards for fiction. He was also nominated for a Pushcart. Molotkov's fiction and poetry have appeared in over 40 publications, both in print and online.  In 2010, he spearheaded a poetry and music performance "Love Outlives Us".  He often reads at a variety of Portland venues.  Visit him at www.AMolotkov.com

Diane Lee Moomey is a writer, a painter, 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, The Love Project (Anabasis), Earth Prayers (Roberts and Amidon, Harper-Collins), Faultzone (California Writers’ Club), and Writing For Our Lives (Running Deer Press). One prose piece, “Grandmother, Geothermally Yours,” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. …Place…,(2010), a work of poetry and literary fiction, and Silk Road, Iron Bird, (2011), a long poem, were published in book form by Day’sEye Press and Studios. Diane is a member of the California Writers Club, and reads frequently at Waverley Writers in Palo Alto, CoastWriters in Montara, the Not Yet Dead Poets' Society in Redwood City, and at benefits for worthy causes. Please visit Diane’s website at www.dianeleemoomeyart.com

Charlotte Muse teaches and writes poetry in Menlo Park. Her awards include the Yeats Society of New York's Poetry Award, two Atlanta Review International Publication Awards, prizes in the Joy Harjo Poetry Award contest, the Foley Prize, and the Feile Filiochta, among others. A letterpress edition of her recent chapbook, A Story Also Grows, was handmade by the Chester Creek Press in 2010. Copies are in both the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian rare book collections. She likes to sit at the bottom of a nearby dry creek bed staring into space.

Lisa Meltzer Penn's stories and essays have appeared in Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, Travelers Tales: Spain, Transfer Magazine, and The Cupboard. She also edits popular middle grade fiction, short story anthologies, and novels, and is raising two children in Belmont, CA. She has lived in New York, Spain, and California. "The Mermaid Comes Home" is an excerpt from her novel, The Siren Dialogues. Visit Lisa at www.LisaMeltzerPenn.com.

Nils Peterson is Professor Emeritus at San Jose State University where he taught in the English and Humanities Departments. He has published poetry, science fiction, and articles on subjects as varying as golf and Shakespeare, a chapbook entitled Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing, and poetry collections entitled The Comedy of Desire with an introduction by Robert Bly, Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango, For This Day, and The Revenge of the Socks. In 2011 a new collection entitled A Walk to the Center of Things will be published.

Joyce Savre continues to work at Stanford Hospital as a psychiatric RN besides her work as an artist and poet. She came to painting by way of poetry and in return, poetry and her love of words, and belief in the importance of "using our words" inform most of her art. "Poetry is the heartbeat of my work." www.joycesavreart.com

Tom Sheehan lives in Saugus, MA and just entered his 84th year. He served with the 31st Infantry Regiment in Korea, 1951. His books are Epic Cures and Brief Cases, Short Spans, Press 53; A Collection of Friends and From the Quickening, Pocol Press. Work appears in Home of the Brave, Stories in Uniform and Milspeak Anthology, Warriors. He has 14 Pushcart nominations, a Georges Simenon Fiction Award, was included in Dzanc Best of the Web Anthology for 2009 and was nominated for 2010 and 2011. He has 190 short stories on Rope and Wire Magazine. Print issues include Rosebud (4), Ocean Magazine (7) among others. He has published 3 novels, An Accountable Death, Vigilantes East, and Death for the Phantom Receiver, a football mystery, and works on 3 more. He has published poetry collections This Rare Earth and Other Flights, Ah, Devon Unbowed; The Saugus Book, and Reflections from Vinegar Hill.

Patty Somlo has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first short story collection, From Here to There and Other Stories—where “Tea Man” first appeared—was published in November 2010 by Paraguas Books. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, The Santa Clara Review, Guernica, Fringe Magazine, and others, as well as in the anthologies Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration; Battle Runes: Writings on War, and Voices from the Couch.

Marty Sorensen, the publisher of The Sand Hill Review, co-authored with his wife, Charleyne Ward Marshall, two suspense thrillers, Pike Place, and Do Not Betray Me (available at Amazon.com) and, in the category of women’s upscale fiction, is working on Carolyn: I Once Was Lost But Now Am Found.

Sean Trolinder is from St. Cloud, Florida. His fiction has appeared in or forthcoming in The MacGuffin, Muse & Stone, Helix Magazine, The Aroostook Review, Temenos, SNReview, Oracle, and EDGE. He is currently a W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellow at Texas State University – San Marcos, where he is pursuing his MFA in fiction. “Curiosity” is part of a collection he is working on entitled The Tropic of Capitalism and Other Stories.

Christopher Wachlin lives just a few miles north of Sand Hill Road. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Center, Fox Valley, and the University of Iowa. He is a member of the San Francisco/Peninsula branch of the California Writers Club. His fiction can be found at http://darkskymagazine.com/wachlin/ and in Fault Zone: Words from the Edge, 2010.

Suzannah Windsor was born and raised in the unforgiving Canadian north, but currently lives with her husband and children on a semi-tropical coast in Australia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from The University of Windsor, and a Bachelor of Education from Lakehead University. Suzannah is the editor of Write It Sideways, an online community dedicated to helping aspiring writers hone their skills. She has contributed to other sites such as Writer Unboxed, Write to Done, Women on Writing, Men with Pens, and Storyfix, and she is currently working on her first novel.

Patricia Zylius moved from Long Island, NY, to a small Southern California beach town when she was 10, believing it would be the equivalent of moving to Disneyland. She now lives in Santa Cruz with her partner, Jeffrey. She makes a living as a freelance copyeditor and works with a variety of material, including hardware and software documentation, 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 Sand Hill Review, Porter Gulch Review, the Monterey Poetry Review, the Good Times Weekly, and Caesura. She daydreams in words, not pictures.