Nancy Beel spent most of her life teaching high school math, but she recently quit to make soap and write poetry. "White Heart" is her first published poem. Yippee! Sandra Bozarth, a California native, teaches Spanish to teachers. The earth, the family cats, and a lifetime with horses form the core of her award-winning writing. Ardyth Bradley has taught at the University of Colorado and in the Illinois Arts Council's Poets-in-the-Schools program. She has also produced three volumes of poetry, including Light and Chance. Larry R Brooks, a CIA retiree, now lives near Las Vegas and teaches English at the Community College of Southern Nevada. He finds pleasure in the process of creating something new. Beverly Burch has taught literature and psychology at DeKalb College and New College of California. Her recent work has appeared in North American Review and Borderlands. Stephen Campiglio has work forthcoming in the Anthology of New England Writers and an international anthology of Italian and Italian-American poetry. He lives in Fiskdale, Massachusetts. Rachel Crossman is a freelance writer, a substitute high school teacher and a multi-tasker. She spins her wheels in and around Berkeley, California. Erica Crowell, a poet and short story writer, lives with her daughter and poodle in Richmond, California. Barrett Cummings, originally from Oregon, has recently moved to Hawaii. Her poems have appeared in Perceptions and The Golden Mantle of Evening. Jeneé D Darden, a native of Oakland, California, participated in the 2003 National Book Foundation's Summer Writing Camp. "The Belle of Monster's Ball" is her first published poem. Yippee! Janine DeBaise teaches writing and literature in upstate New York, where she lives with her husband four children. Her chapbook Of a Feather was published in 2003. Rafaella Del Bourgo, a Bay Area writing instructor, has lived in Tasmania and sailed the Sea of Cortez. Her first collection of poetry, I Am Not Kissing You, was published in 2003. Robert Eastwood lives and writes in San Ramon, California. His poems have appeared in The Blue Unicorn, The Carquinez Review, Ekphrasis, and Oxford Magazine. Patricia Edith, an Alameda resident, has published in Calyx, The Minnesota Review, and Sonoma Mandala. Her chapbook The Modern Office was published by Redfruit Press in 1998. Gayle Eleanor is a retired Marriage and Family Therapist living in Concord, California. She has published two volumes of poetry--Grace Happens (2001) and Nahanni (2002) Jonathan Fink is the Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry at Emory University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Tri- Quarterly, and The Southern Review. Jim Fisher is a Bay Area writer whose poems have appeared in Snowy Edgret, Troubadour, Icarus, and last year in The Peralta Press. Catherine Fraga, a writing instructor at CSU, Sacramento, has been published in numerous journals. This is her second appearance in The Peralta Press. Carol Frith, co-editor of Ekphrasis, has been published in Midwest Quarterly, Borderlands, Spillway, and was MacGuffin's winner of the 2001 Poet Hunt. Laverne Frith, co-editor of Ekphrasis, has been published in Sundog, California Quarterly, Permafrost, and Comstock Review. His chapbook Kimera is available through Talent House Press. Ar Foster lives, writes, and perpetually studies in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her work has appeared in The Greyrock Review, Gertrude Magazine, and Zang Spur. Susan Fuller earned degrees from both Cal State, Los Angeles, and Carnegie Mellen University. A resident of Lafayette, California, she is working on her first collection of poems. Margaret Gish-Miller, a retired community college English teacher, still enjoys writing. Her work has received awards from New Millennium Writings and The Writers Digest. Jessie Grabowsky, a New York octogenarian, has been writing for eight decades. Four years ago, she first began submitting her work. Since then, she's published twelve poems and four short stories. Stephen D Gutierrez, creative writing instructor at Cal State Hayward, won the 1996 Nilon Excellence in Minority Fiction Award. He is the author of chicano tales from fresno & l.a. Alvin Hadad, originally from Boston, has lived in California the past quarter century. Now retired, he's focused himself on writing poetry. "Haiku Poem 3" is his first publication. Yippee! Katharine Harer, an Oakland native, teaches writing at Skyline Community College. A widely published poet and performer, she hosts the Poetry & Pizza reading series in San Francisco. Patricia Harrelson teaches English at Columbia College in Northern California. Her work has appeared in Tiny Lights, Snowbound, Penumbra, and previously in The Peralta Press. Juley Harvey, an associate editor at the LA Daily News by day, is a poet-girl by night, having appeared in more than thirty magazines, both slicks and literary. Lee Herrick's poetry has appeared in The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, and Hawai'i Pacific Review. He teaches at Fresno City College. Darla Himeles, a student at Santa Monica College, works days in educational consulting and aspires at night to teach English. "The Knock" is her first publication. Yippee! Margaret J Hoehn's poetry has appeared in North American Review, The Madison Review, Nimrod, and New Millennium. Her book The Trajectory of Sunflowers will soon be published. Gene Howell, is a poet, playwright, and artist--plus the ever esteemed host of the monthly "Fireback! Poetry on the Waterfront" series in Oakland, California. Kake Huck, a college instructor in Bend, Oregon, has been published in Ekphrasis, Freshwater, and The Peralta Press. She is oddly inspired by both death and strippers. Bryan Tso Jones, like some mad wild-haired scientist, insanely concocts poetry as a second year MFA student at California State University, Chico. Allison Joseph is a poet and essayist who lives, writes, and teaches in Carbondale, Illinois. Her next book of poems, Worldly Pleasures, won the 2003 World Press Poetry Prize. Heather Kamins recently received an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. She writes poetry and fiction from her home in Massachusetts. Demitri Keriotis teaches English at Modesto Junior College and has recently discovered the joy of writing poetry. His work has appeared in Quercus Review. Ask him about his acorn squash. Frank Krasnowsky, after retiring from Bethlehem Steel in 1979, began a career as an actor, singer, and translator of Yiddish songs. He lives and writes in Washington State. Gene Kent Nitz, originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana, now lives and writes in Phoenix Arizona. Over the years, he's worked in publishing, in promotions, and with the Art Theater Guild. Gina Ochsner lives in Kizer, Oregon, with her husband and three kids. A big kid herself who's never grown up, she prays each night to levitate and float across her ceiling. Joyce Odam, Sacramento editor of Poetry Depth Quarterly, has a special fondness for the brief poem. A strong proponent of writing workshops, her work has appeared in The Seattle Review. Mike O'Reilly, a newlywed in Royal Oak, Michigan, may be found hunting, golfing, mountain bike riding or, when not substitute teaching, playing drums in a rock-n-roll band. Sereana Oxendale has been published many times, including in Michigan Young Poets. She has received two Editor's Choice Awards and is featured on a spoken word CD. Myra L Peak, both farmer and poet, is currently writing a novel about her work in a coal mine. Last year, she placed second in the Wyoming Writers 2003 writing contest. Judie Rae, of Grass Valley, California, is a freelance writer and college English instructor. She has authored four novels for young adults, including a Nancy Drew Mystery. Bruce Rettig lives with his wife and three children in South Lake Tahoe, California, where he runs an ad agency by day and writes fiction by night. Daphne Roe began writing three years ago and has since been published in The Porter Gulch Review, La Gazette, and Nimrod. Poetry, for her, has been a lovely mid-life surprise. Jay Rubin, a College of Alameda writing instructor, writes poetry and prose in San Francisco, where he lives with his Pudding Cup and their luscious little Lula Bear. Barbara Schweitzer received a 2002 poetry fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and won the 1999 Galway Kinnell Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been widely published. Cheryl Slobod, a composition instructor at Cal State Northridge, is currently writing a memoir about her travels to India. She recently earned a Creative Writing MFA from the CSU Consortium. Phyllis M Teplitz, at 79, writes about her current life in Marin County and her early life in South Dakota. She credits her poetic skills to Tom Centolella's writing class. Judy Clement Wall lives in Livermore, California, with her husband and two sons. Her writing has appeared in Tattoo Highway and Eureka Literary Magazine. Carol Weinstein, a third generation San Franciscan, writes for pleasure while also running an arts outreach program for youth. "Covenant" is her first published poem. Yippee! Edgar Werner was a merchant marine during World War II, a soldier in the Korean War, and a teacher of biological oceanography. He now lives and writes in Virginia. Tamara Westerhold, born and raised in Northern California, is a writer, teacher, and children's rights activist now residing in Southern California. Jennifer Wheelock, with poems in several journals and anthologies, was a recent semi-finalist in the Steel Toe Books poetry contest. She lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. Jessica Wickens lives, writes, and makes a living in Oakland, California. She torn between realism and romanticism, but above all, cherishes a good night's sleep. Dera Williams has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her life. Her award-winning non-fiction has appeared in a number of anthologies. Wendy Patrice Williams, a College of Alameda English instructor, has published her fiction in Shore Stories: An Anthology of the Jersey Shore and Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sport. Lauren Elyssa Young, a Stanford University freshman, learned to love words from reading Dr Suess. Her work has appeared in both American and Canadian literary journals. Felice Kahn Zisken works as an editor and translator in Jerusalem, Israel. Her poetry has appeared in Judaism, Matrix, Arc, and Chinese Poetry International Quarterly. |
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