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| San Francisco writer Olivia Boler is the author of the novel Year of the Smoke Girl (Dry Bones Press, 2000). She received an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, and Facets Magazine, among others. Cecelia Chapman lives in Northern California. A graduate of Parson’s School of Design in New York, her artwork and stories appear or have appeared online in Doorway to the Mind, En Fuego, Jack Magazine, and Unlikely Stories. Her website is www.imagechapman.com. Andy Douglas is pursuing an MFA degree from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and currently working on a book about his experiences as a monk in Asia. His essays and translations have appeared in New Renaissance Journal and Nimrod. His awards include a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Iowa City with his constant companion, a black lab named Pete. Mary Fons lives in Chicago. She received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Iowa. She has performed original work under the name “Tennessee Mary” in poetry slams across the country and has been the featured performer in such venues as the Uptown Poetry Slam (Green Mill, Chicago) Urbana (Bowery Poetry Club, New York City) and The Berzerkley Slam (Starry Plough, Berkeley). In 2003 she performed her poetry with the Joffrey Ballet and she can also be heard on the CD accompaniment to The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Slam Poetry (AlphaBooks, 2004). Valentina Gnup’s recent book, Sparrow Octaves, won the North Carolina’s Writers’ Network Mary Belle Campbell Book Prize for 2005. She received her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in the Hiram Poetry Review, Nimrod,Blue Collar Review, Brooklyn Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Her chapbook A Certain Piece of Sky (Mille Grazie Press) was published in 1996. Other awards and recognition she has received include: honorable mention in the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (1997), the Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artist Award for poetry (2000). She teaches at Greensboro College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s first novel, This is the Place, and her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered are both award-winners. She is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program and was recently awarded “Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment” by the California Legislature District and her how-to book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER won USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004.” Her website is: carolynhowardjohnson.com. Bridget Hoida’s short stories have appeared in Rainbow Curve, Berkeley Fiction Review, and Reed Magazine. A graduate of UC Berkeley she lives in Southern California and attends U.S.C. where she is working on a novel titled So L.A. Stacy Nathaniel Jackson is a mixed media artist and poet. Currently a graduate student in San Francisco State's Creative Writing department, his poems have appeared online at SoMa Literary Review, The Big Ugly Review, and Lodestar Quarterly. His artwork has recently been shown at the NoDa Artist Network in Charlotte, NC, San Francisco Open Studios, and ODC Theater. Mary Laufer grew up in East Aurora, New York. She received a BA in English from SUNY at Albany. Her essays and poetry have appeared in Learning to Glow, a Nuclear Reader (University of Arizona Press, 2000), Proposing on the Brooklyn Bridge (Grayson Books, 2003), Hunger Enough: Living Spiritually in a Consumer Society (Pudding House Publications, 2004) and Hello, Goodbye (July Literary Press, 2004). She lives in Forest Grove, Oregon. Evan Nagle is from Mason City, Illinois and currently lives in Greencastle, Indiana where he studies anthropology and creative writing at DePauw University. His poems have appeared in DMQ. Charles P. Ries lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His narrative poems, short stories and poetry reviews have appeared in over ninety print and electronic publications. He is the recipient of three Pushcart Prize nominations and has read his poetry on National Public Radio’s Theme and Variations. He is the author of four books of poetry and the novel, THE FATHERS WE FIND. PB Rippey’s work has appeared in Zyzzyva, Pool, Solo, California Quarterly, Phoebe, and elsewhere. She is completing her first full-length collection of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a novel. A seventh-generation Californian, she lives in Echo Park. Kristan Ruona lives in San Rafael, CA. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Francisco State University where she has also done graduate work in creative writing. Her work has appeared in The Santa Clara Review,The Dallas Review, Phoebe, and DIAL magazine a publication of the New School in New York. Alexander Scordelis is a recent graduate of the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His story "The Great Pumpkin" appeared in the 2004 issue of Spectrum. He lives in New York City. Jeff Tannen received an MFA degree from CSUF. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Rhapsoidia and the Red Hills Review. He was born and raised in Fresno, California. Kimberly Thomas lives in Louisville, Kentucky and works as an elementary school librarian. She has degrees in Library Science, Elementary Education, and English Literature. Primarily a writer for children, her stories have appeared in the magazines Ladybug and Turtle. |
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