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Kathryn Abajian is the author of First Sight of the Desert: Discovering the Art of Ella Peacock. A native Californian, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches writing and literature, since the early 1970s. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Salon, and Travelers' Tales.
website: www.kathrynabajian.com . e-mail: kathryn@kathrynabajian.com . Raised in Chile, Isabel Allende worked for many years as a journalist before writing the international bestseller, The House of the Spirits. Other books include Of Love and Shadows, The Stories of Eva Luna, Paula, Aphrodite, Daughter of Fortune, Portrait in Sepia, The Infinite Plan and City of Beasts (2002), her first book for young readers. She lives in San Rafael. website: www.isabelallende.com . good works: www.isabelallendefoundation.org . Lisa Alpine is a co-author of Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel (Globe Pequot Press). She is the travel columnist for the Pacific Sun in Marin County and was founding publisher of THE FAX, a community newspaper. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies. When not acting as book midwife and writing coach, she works as a freelance writer and teaches writing at The Writing Salon in San Francisco and Book Passage in Corte Madera. website: www.lisaalpine.com
. e-mail: writing@lisaalpine.com . Children’s writer and Encarta columnist whose post-9-11 e-mail was forwarded around the world and grew into the book, West of Kabul, East of New York. He also has written Election Day and Cool Collections: Dolls/Insects/Model Cars/Natural Objects/Stamps.Tamim Ansary lives in San Francisco. website: www.mirtamimansary.com . A native of Fresno and a PEN Award winner, journalist Mark Arax chronicled his ongoing search for his father’s killers in his memoir, In My Father’s Name: A Family, a Town, a Murder. “Almost every American town harbors some brutal secret, but few produce writers like Mark Arax with both the courage and artistic talent needed to coax the story out and shape it into fine literature.” — Los Angeles Times columnist Peter King.
is a Los Angeles-based short fiction writer whose current works appear in various literary magazines and anthologies, including All Hands On, Cairn, Clackamas Literary Review, Emergence, Oyez Review, Pearl, PMS, So to Speak, Standards: An International Journal of Multicultural Studies, and Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership. She serves as a contributing editor to Other Voices, and a senior editor to the new book imprint, OV Books. “Stacy Bierlein's short fiction is elegant, sensuous, and tough too. In website: www.othervoicesmagazine.org Co-author of 2 screenplays, Short Time and Blue Streak, Blumenthal has written numerous magazine articles and books, including The Tinseltown Murders, Love's Reckless Rash, Hollywood High, and What's Wrong With Dorfman? website: www.WhatsWrongWithDorfman.com . e-mail: jbautog@aol.com . Southern California author of more than a dozen fiction books, including A Friend of the Earth, The Tortilla Curtain, T.C. Boyle Stories and After the Plague, which won the Southern California Booksellers Association book award for fiction (2002). website: www.tcboyle.com/public_htm/tcboyle.html . The author of more than five hundred published works — short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse. Ray Bradbury’s books include The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. “The jails are full of one million non-readers. We can’t let it happen again. If you allow another generation to grow up to be 12 years old without the ability to read, write, and think, we’re sunk.” — Ray Bradbury website: www.raybradbury.com . e-mail: RayBradbury@harpercollins.com Catherine Brady is the author of two story collections, Curled in the Bed of Love, winner of the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and The End of the Class War. Her stories have appeared in many journals and in Best American Short Stories 2004. “Brady's characters are painstakingly particularized, emotionally, complex, of their time and place: northern California in the late decades of the twentieth century... It's rare for a writer to explore with such subtlety and respect the curious symbiosis of the needy and the needed as Brady does.” — Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books e-mail: bradyc@usfca.edu website: www.ceciliabrainard.com . e-mail: cbrainard@aol.com . Riverside author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write and The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel, winner of The Bellwether Prize in Support of a Literature of Social Change. On The Book of Dead Birds: “Lyrical, imaginative, beautifully crafted and deeply intelligent. Before anything else, its characters take you by the heart.” — Barbara Kingsolver website: www.gaylebrandeis.com . e-mail: gaylebrandeis@hotmail.com . Lynette Brasfield’s novel Nature Lessons (St. Martin's Press, May 2003) tells the haunting story of a woman's search for her missing, mentally ill mother; it's also a reflection on love and loss and guilt, and the unique perspective each of us brings to the universe. Five percent of book profits funds a Get Involved for Mental Health Scholarship. “Nature Lessons is a striking debut...Lynette Brasfield movingly explores the weight of love between a mother and daughter and the complex legacy it leaves behind. Set against the turbulent backdrop of South Africa, the novel is both illuminating and absorbing.” — Gail Tsukiyama, author of Dreaming Water. website: www.literati.net/Brasfield . e-mail: lbrasfield@literati.net Born in Honolulu, Richard Alan Bunch grew up in the Napa Valley. His poetry works include A Foggy Morning and Wading the Russian River. Night Blooms is a selection of journal entries on philosophy, literature, and religion. His stories have appeared in several venues. He is also author of the play, The Russian River Returns. His poetry has appeared in California Quarterly, Black Moon, Oregon Review, Long Islander, James River Poetry Review and the Hawaii Review. His latest poetry collection is Running for Daybreak. He resides in Davis, California. e-mail: rgbunch@ucdavis.edu lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a screenwriter. His debut novel, Christopher, was a finalist for the 2004 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction. His second novel, The House Beautiful, will be published in September 2006. “Part Truman Capote, part Oscar Wilde, part Humbert Humbert, part Dr. Pangloss, and yet uniquely himself, B.K. Troop is that rarest find: an unexpected and entirely engaging new character. It is B.K.'s voice — his allusions, fulminations, deprecations and ultimately his hapless, hopeless romanticism — that makes this fine first novel such an enjoyable romp." — Los Angeles Times website: allisonburnett.com David Carkeet was born and raised in Sonora, California. His most recent novels are The Full Catastrophe and The Error of Our Ways, both of them New York Times Book Review "Notable Books of the Year." “David Carkeet wrote The Greatest Slump of All Time, a baseball novel so funny that audiobook manufacturers hesitate to record it for fear of vehicular liability.” — San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Editor David Kipen, writing in The Atlantic website: www.geocities.com/davidcarkeet/ . e-mail: davidcarkeet@hotmail.com An urban historian and political activist, Chris Carlsson is the editor of The Political Edge; Bad Attitude: The Processed World Anthology; Reclaiming San Francisco; and Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration. In 2004, Carlsson published his first novel, After The Deluge. For the last twenty-five years his activities have focused on the underlying themes of horizontal communications, organic communities and public space. He lives in San Francisco's Mission District with the award-winning muralist Mona Caron. “On a rainy Tuesday in December, a sleeping giant stirred in San Francisco. The Political Edge is a must read for anyone energized by the grassroots campaign to elect Matt Gonzalez for mayor. Full of progressive hope, The Political Edge paints a picture of a city that can be radically better.” — San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly. website: www.citylights.com . Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon’s work also includes Wonder Boys and The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. Summerland (2002) is his first children’s book. website: www.michaelchabon.com . Perhaps best known as the creator of the irrepressible Ramona Quimby, Beverly Cleary is the Newberry Award-winning author of numerous children’s books, including Ramona the Pest, Henry Huggins, Risby, Dear Mr. Henshaw, Sister of the Bride, Ralph S. Mouse, Romona Forever, Ramona’s World and the Ramona Boxed Set. She lives in Carmel. “Cleary is adept at taking everyday events and making the reader see the humor and delight in simple things. Everyone will want to visit with this old friend.” —Sharon Salluzzo, Children’s Literature website: www.beverlycleary.com Michelle Cliff is a Jamaican-American writer whose work includes the short story collections Bodies of Water and The Store of a Million Items — the latter chosen by The Village Voice as one of the best books of 1998. Her novels are Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. She is the recipient of two NEA fellowships and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, New Zealand. She currently resides along California's Central Coast. “Free Enterprise is an angry, gaudy, multicultural storm of a historical website: www.citylights.com . Author of The Immortal Game and Vulture Capital, Mark has been nominated for multiple book awards and his work has appeared in several best of the year lists, including those compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Detroit Free Press. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Linda, and their cat, Taki. "From the boardrooms of Palo Alto to the wineries of Napa, [he] gives us Northern California in the 21st century, as noir as it ever was ... Po Bronson, for all his talents, did not catch the Valley's entrepreneurial/venture capital lifeblood ... as unerringly as Coggins does." — Salon.com Website: www.immortalgame.com . e-mail: coggins@immortalgame.com . Best-selling author of seven, internationally published novels: The Day After Tomorrow; Regina’s Song; The Ladies of Beverly Hills; Marital Affairs; Love, Sex and Money; Lives of Value; and Innocent Gestures. Also wrote the musicals Sheba (book and lyrics), Blackout (book and lyrics) and Stormy Weather, The Story of Lena Horne (book), which was awarded Honorable Mention in the Stage Play Script category of the Writer’s Digest 2000 Competition. Website: www.sharleencoopercohen.com . e-mail: sccInc1@aol.com . A science writer for the Los Angeles Times, K.C. Cole is the author of The Universe and the Tea Cup; The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything; First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life and Mind Over Matter. A California native, Nik C. Colyer worked as a sculptor before writing the quirky relationship novel, Channeling Biker Bob Heart of a Warrior. Other novels include Channeling Biker Bob Lover’s Embrace, Maranther's Deception,(2005) and his first book of poetry; Kicking Ass and Taking Names. The third in the Biker Bob series, Magician’s Spell, will be published in 2006. He resides in Nevada City, California. website: www.channelingbikerbob.com . e-mail: nik@ncws.com Dora E. H. Crow is the author and illustrator of the children's book, Winky & Wonder: Book I and Book II. Told with humor and excitement, these tales of adventure and triumph-over-evil present lessons about virtues, moral choices, accountability for one's own actions, forgiveness, and life's realities. Mrs. Crow lives in Santa Cruz County. “Winky and Wonder are two courageous Whisper Children from Whisperland. Invisible to humans' eyes and unheard by their ears, Winky and Wonder whisper directly to human children's hearts, encouraging them to listen to what they already know deep inside.” — Winky & Wonder: Book I and Book II. website: www.winkyandwonder.com A mythic figure in the Southern California arts scene, Kamau Daáood is a performance poet, educator and community arts activist who is widely acknowledged as a major driving force behind Los Angeles' black cultural renaissance. He is the author of two chapbooks, and a spoken word album, Leimert Park, named after the thriving Los Angeles community that is fast becoming the west coast's black cultural mecca. The Language of Saxophones is his first book, a long-awaited selection from a lifetime of poetry. "I was taught that the concept of the local artist is a noble one. That to live and work in a community and to be known for that work, is very dignified." — Kamau Daáood website: www.citylights.com An internationally renown neuroscientist, Antonio Damasio is the author of The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness; Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. Since 2005, he has been Director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. “In clear, accessible and at times eloquent prose, Damasio is outlining nothing less than a new vision of the human soul, integrating body and mind, thought and feeling, individual survival and altruism, humanity and nature, ethics and evolution.” — The San Francisco Chronicle. website: http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1008328.html . Founder of L.A. Style, L.A. Weekly and Sí magazine, she is the author of Marked for Life, A Memoir; Infusions of Healing; and with Esmeralda Santiago, she is the editor of two story anthologies, Las Christmas and Las Mamis. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, author of A Woman of Independent Means, called Marked for Life “A brave and liberating book... overflowing with tender wisdom.” website: www.joiedavidow.com . e-mail: joie@joiedavidow.com . Lucille Lang Day’s first poetry collection, Self-Portrait with Hand Microscope, was selected for the Joseph Henry Jackson Award in Literature by Robert Pinsky, David Littlejohn, and Michael Rubin. Her other poetry collections are Infinities, Wild One, and Fire in the Garden. She also has a chapbook in the “Greatest Hits” series from Pudding House Publications. “Few books of poems have the sheer narrative intensity of Lucille Lang Day’s Wild One. It sweeps the reader up like a powerful coming-of-age novel — half hilarious, half heartbreaking — but always with the sharp lyric edge of genuine poetry.” — Dana Gioia Website: www.scarlettanager.com . e-mail: lucyday@earthlink.net A resident of Venice, Ca, Joan taught a course in writing the mystery called "A Guide To The Pitfalls From Someone Who Has Fallen Into Most of Them. She is the author of Plonk Goes the Weasel (2004) and Death had a Yellow Thumb (2005). She also wrote a bibliography on antiques for Los Angeles Public Library.
website: www.joandelmonte.com An award-winning author and poet, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's most recent novel is Queen of Dreams (Doubleday, 2004.) Her other books include The Conch Bearer; Victory Song; Vine of Desire; Sister of My Heart; and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives. She was born in India and has spent most of her life in Northern California, which she often writes about. website: www.chitradivakaruni.com The author/editor/annotator of three books about the Grateful Dead, David Dodd is the City Librarian of San Rafael, California. He has reviewed books for Library Journal and the San Francisco Chronicle. He hopes to turn his efforts toward his fiction. website: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/david.html . e-mail: ddodd@well.com This Oakland-based writer is one of the world's leading tennis journalists. First book, Jimmy Connors Saved My Life (2004), set largely in LA. Wrote five major cover stories for San Diego Reader, including "A Jew & The California Dream" and "San Diego's Tennis Curse." Work cited in Best American Sports Writing. e-mail: JDruck@aol.com Dumas is the author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, a Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and 2004 selection by the “Orange County Reads One Book” program. She lives in Northern California. Website: www.firoozehdumas.com Author of Margaret Cape, winner of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters’ 1998 Best Fiction prize. She lives in Nevada City, California. Her second novel is My Life with Corpses (Harcourt, June 2004). “Wylene Dunbar found a wonderful central metaphor . . . then invested it with life, passion, and an eerie resonance into the spirit of these troubled times. . . .a stunning new novel.” — Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler said of My Life with Corpses website: www.wylenedunbar.com . e-mail: wylene@wylenedunbar.com Mikel Dunham is the author of the "Rhea Buerklin" murder mystery series (St.Martins Press), Stilled Life and Casting for Murder. He is also a reknown photographer and artist. He was the art director for two Nyingma Buddhist temples: one in Sarnath, India, and one in upstate New York. His photographic history, Samye: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of Tibetan Buddhism, was published in 2003. His newest book, Buddha's Warriors, will be released by Tarcher/Penguin in January 2005. Buddha's Warriors is a history of the Tibetan resistance who fought the Chinese invasion in 1950 and based on seven years of interviews with the warriors who led the resistance. “...I am glad that Mikel Dunham has been able to tell these brave men's story in this book, much as they told it to him.” — The Dalai Lama says of Buddha's Warriors. . Editor of McSweeney’s literary magazine, Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and his latest, You Shall Know our Velocity (2002). website: www.mcsweeneys.net . good works: Founder of 826 Valencia, a San Francisco writing program for kids. . A Los Angeles resident for 26 years, but a Detroiter forever. His novel, Sitting Shiva, is the first of his Detroit Trilogy. “Feldman takes the anecdotes of memory to give us a glimpse of life. The writing is simple, direct and unencumbered with self-consciousness.” — Hubert Selby Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. e-mail: efeldman3@san.rr.com . San Francisco's Poet Laureate (1998-1999) and founder of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was written more than a dozen poetry books, including his popular A Coney Island of the Mind. His work includes: City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology, These Are My Rivers, A Far Rockaway of the Heart (1997) and How to Paint Sunlight (2001). website: www.citylights.com/CLlf.html . Bill Fitzhugh is the author of the comic thrillers, Pest Control and Cross Dressing, now in development at Warner Brothers and Universal Studios respectively. He also wrote The Organ Grinders, an ode to human organ trafficking. Fender Benders won The Lefty Award for best humorous novel of 2001. Cross Dressing received the 2002 best fiction award from the Mississippi Library Association. His political satire, Heart Seizure, was published in March 2003. His sixth novel, Radio Activity will be published in 2004. The author lives in Los Angeles where he is currently at work on his next book. "Fitzhugh is a strange and deadly amalgam of screenwriter and comic novelist and his facility and wit, and his taste for the perverse, put him in a league with Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard." — The New York Times website: www.billfitzhugh.com
. e-mail: bfitzhugh@earthlink.net . A California native, and former San Francisco antiques dealer, Elaine Flinn’s debut novel, Dealing in Murder, A Molly Doyle Mystery (Avon) will be out in November 2003. The antiques game is a killer, and it takes an antiques dealer to tell the tale. website: www.elaineflinn.com . e-mail: ejflinn@sbcglobal.net A psychotherapist and writer, Anjuelle Floyd reveals the torment of secrets in Keeper of Secret ... Translations of an Incident, a collection of short stories. She lives in the Oakland East Bay Area.
website: www.anjuellefloyd.com Sesshu Foster teaches composition and literature in East L.A. He is the author of four volumes of poetry — Angry Days, City Terrace Field Manual, American Loneliness and World Ball Notebook — and a novel, Atomik Aztex.
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Amy Friedman has published two memoirs, Kick the Dog and Shoot the Cat and Nothing Sacred: A Conversation with Feminism. Amy also writes "Tell Me A Story," the internationally syndicated column for children. Tell Me A Story, the audiobook she recently wrote and produced, was awarded the 2006 Parents' Choice Silver Honors for Story telling and the NAPPA Gold Medal for 2006. She lives in Los Angeles. website: www.mythsandtales.com
. e-mail: kellsmom@comcast.net A California native, A. J. Garrotto's fourth novel, I'll Paint a Sun, celebrates the healing power of love. Garrotto explored another favorite theme — international adoption — in Circles of Stone (2003) and Finding Isabella (2000). His debut novel was A Love Forbidden (1996). website: www.blsinc.com/garrotto.htm
. e-mail: alg@blsinc.com A native Los Angeles son, raised in Hollywood, Gilmore is the author of hard-boiled true crime, literary fiction, and Hollywood memoirs. His works include Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder; Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives & the Hollywood Death Trip; Live Fast-Die Young: Remembering the Short Life of James Dean; Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family; Fetish Blond; Cold-Blooded: The Sage of Charles Schmid; The Real James Dean; and The Tucson Murders. Several books forthcoming and in press.
website: www.johngilmore.com . e-mail: johngilmore@usa.com . Poet, critic and President Bush’s choice to lead the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is the author of Can Poetry Matter: Essays on Poetry and American Culture; Interrogations at Noon, Nosferatu: an Opera Libretto and other books. He lives in Sonoma County. website: www.danagioia.net . good works: founded Teaching Poetry is the author of And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You, a novel published by Chronicle Books in 2002. She is the co-author of The Great Rock & Roll Joke Book and Mid-Life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude. She also is the founder of the all-author rock band The Rock Bottom Remainders; president and janitor of Don’t Quit Your Day Job Records; and producer of the coast-to-coast radio show “West Coast Live.” She lives in San Francisco. Website: www.dqydj.com . Author of the popular alphabet mystery series, Sue Grafton’s latest installment is Q is for Quarry (fall 2002.) She lives in Santa Barbara. website: www.suegrafton.com is the author of the novel, The Gravedigger. He received a Pushcart Prize honorable mention for “All or Nothing at the Fabergé,” a work from his short story collection titled A Single, Straight Line. His translation into English of San Juan: Ciudad Soñada by Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá will be published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2007. Grandbois is a former member of the United States National Fencing Team and a silver medalist at the 1993 U.S. National Championships. He is a professor of Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature at California State University in Sacramento and he lives in Davis.
website: brothersgrandbois.com . email: peter@brothersgrandbois.com Born in Guerrero, Mexico, Reyna Grande moved to the U.S. in 1985 at ten years of age. She was a 2003 Emerging Voices Fellow. In her first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains (Simon & Schuster, June 2006), Grande uses her own experience of growing up in Mexico without her parents, and then crossing the border as an undocumented person, to give life to her main character. She lives in Los Angeles. website: www.reynagrande.com . e-mail: reynagrande@yahoo.com was born in Washington, DC, the son of two scientists. He studied writing at Brown University, where he was the commencement speaker at his own graduation. His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets was published in 2001, and his second book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, came out in 2004. He lives in San Francisco. website: www.andrewgreer.com
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. e-mail: guerreroink2005@yahoo.com is the author of the novel, Catching Heaven, a Random House Reader’s Circle Selection and a finalist for a Willa Award (Women Writing the West), Best Contemporary Fiction. She is also the author of a book of essays and exercises, Tools of the Writer’s Craft. Her produced plays include an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and the drama Fair Use. website: www.sandshall.com . e-mail: sands@sandshall.com . Daniel Handler is the author of the bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events (under the pen name of Lemony Snicket), a collection of books for children, and three books for adults: Basic Eight (based on a true story of a teenaged girl who commits murder), Watch Your Mouth (a melodramatic satire of family life), and Adverbs, due out in 2005. He lives in San Francisco. website: www.lemonysnicket.com . Jean Harfenist is the award-winning author of A Brief History of the Flood (Knopf 2002; Vintage 2003). A native of Minnesota, she now lives in Southern California. “Wonderfully wry-melancholy....An auspicious and stirring debut.” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times website: www.randomhouse.com . e-mail: harf@west.net . served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997 and teaches at UC Berkeley. His books of poetry include Sun Under Wood, Human Wishes, Praise, and Field Guide.He collaborated for years with Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz to bring his major works into English. website: www.barclayagency.com/hass.html . Cause website: River of Words. . Known for celebrating California’s small towns, Gerald Haslam has published eight collections of short stories, including The Other California, That Constant Coyote and Condor Dreams. He also is the author of Workin’ Man Blues: Country Music in California, Manuel and the Madman, and Straight White Male. He lives in Penngrove. “Gerald Haslam writes wonderfully about the California that few of us know, the farmlands and oilfields of the Central Valley, and the children of the “Okies” who grew up there. His characters may grow up and move away, but they've been formed by the Valley and never really leave it in spirit.” — Cyra McFadden website: www.geraldhaslam.com . e-mail: ghaslam@sonic.net website: www.eloisekleinhealy.com . e-mail: contact.ekh@mac.com Author of Practicing Conscious Living and Dying: Stories of the Eternal Continuum of Consciousness and writer of various magazine articles on conscious living and dying. Lives in Southern California. website: www.annamariahemingway.com . Jack Hicks teaches at the University of California , Davis and is the founding director of "The Art of the Wild", an annual summer program on writing creatively with nature, wilderness and the environment. Publications include two critical books on contemporary fiction (Cutting Edges and In the Singer's Temple ) and he co-edited The Literature of California, Volume I (2000) and California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (2003). website: http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/hicks/hicks.htm . Intern (Mira Books, Feb. 2003, hardcover), about the disappearance of a California state senator's intern/lover, is the first of six novels. Killer Body, about the weight-loss industry, will be published in Feb. 2004. A national writing conference speaker, the author has worked (now part-time) for The Fresno Bee since 1982. website: www.bonniehearnhill.com . e-mail: bonniehearnhill@comcast.net Named Poet Laureate in San Francisco in 2006, Jack Hirschman was born in New York City in 1933 and has lived since 1973 in San Francisco. He has published more than 25 translations of poetry from eight languages. Among his many volumes of poetry are A Correspondence of Americans (Indiana University Press., 1960), Lyripol (City Lights, 1976), The Bottom Line (Curbstone, 1988), Endless Threshold (Curbstone, 1992), and Front Lines (City Lights, 2002). website: www.lrna.org/speakers/jack.html . The author of five poetry collections — the latest is Given Sugar, Given Salt — and a book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. “Her poems are meant to endure.” — The Antioch Review website: www.barclayagency.com/hirshfield.html was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. He attended Santa Clara University and graduated from UC San Diego School of Medicine. The Kite Runner is his first novel. website: www.khaledhosseini.com Author of Totem Salmon: Life Lessons from Another Species, winner of the BABRA best non-fiction award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Harold D.Vursell Award for quality of prose. “Discovering salmon proves to be a path to self and community, to a large spiritual and natural etiquette ... As someone said, ‘To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture.’ This grave and delightful book — both personal and cosmic — shows how that works.” — Gary Snyder website: http://www.czrecords.com/dhouse/freeman/totem.htm Co-author, The Gurus' Guide to Serenity: A Me-Time Menu of Celebrity Stress Reducers (HarperCollins). Co-author, Raise the Barre (HarperCollins 2006). Co-author, Foundation Fitness (Wiley, January 08). West Coast Editor, Fit Magazine and Fit Yoga Magazine. Beauty Editor Healing Lifestyles and Spas Magazine. website: www.byLaurelHouse.com
. e-mail: laurel@bylaurelhouse.com is the author of numerous novels, including the trilogy, Continental Drift, Love Life, and The Last Paradise, which received a l999 American Book Award. His Snow Mountain Passage was cited by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Los Angeles Times as one of the Year’s Best Books. Among his several nonfiction works is Farewell to Manzanar. He also co-edited The Literature of California, Volume I. Houston lives in Santa Cruz. website: www.jamesdhouston.com Kate Hovey is the award–winning author of three books of poetry for young people, Arachne Speaks, Ancient Voices and Voices of the Trojan War, all published by Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. A maskmaker and poet, Hovey combines her lifelong love of Greek mythology with poetry and the 20,000 year–old art of the mask to bring the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece to life for students in classrooms across the country.
website: www.KateHovey.com is a nationally syndicated columnist, author of ten books and co-founder and editor of the HuffingtonPost.com. She is also co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's political roundtable program. Her books include Pigs at the Trough and Fanatics and Fools. She lives in Los Angeles. website: www.huffingtonpost.com . A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Edward Humes is the best-selling author of six nonfiction books, including Baby E.R., No Matter How Loud I Shout, Mean Justice, and Mississippi Mud. He lives in Southern California. “Humes succeeds where many would have failed because he is working out of the best American tradition of nonfiction narrative, of literary journalism, by paying homage to practitioners of the craft such as John McPhee, Joan Didion, Richard Rhodes and Tom Wolfe.” — The Los Angeles Times website: www.edwardhumes.com . e-mail: contact@edwardhumes.com . Jessica Barksdale Inclan is the author of five novels — Her Daughter's Eyes, The Matter of Grace, When You Go Away, One Small Thing and Walking With Her Daughter — and co-editor of the textbook Diverse Voices of Women. She lives in Orinda and teaches at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. “Inclan never condescends and never judges, preferring to let her subtly drawn people speak for themselves” — Kirkus Reviews. website: www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com E-mail: littlephi@aol.com is the author of A Ghost At Heart's Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). She lives in Oakland. website: www.readingwritingliving.blogspot.com . e-mail: susanito@mac.com Iyer has been writing about his adopted home on and off for twenty-five years now. He is the author of numerous books about the romance between cultures, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul and Abandon, an Islamic Californian romance. His latest book is Sun after Dark: Flights Into the Foreign (2004). Iyer's work often appears in Harper’s, Time, and the New York Review of Books. He divides his time between Japan and California. Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/home.html . A former fourth grade teacher, Tony Johnston is the author of numerous children’s books, including Day of the Dead, That Summer, The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote, The Iguana Brothers and Any Small Goodness: A Novel of the Barrio, which won the Southern California Book Award in October 2002. is the author of the novels Ordinary Money, Particles and Luck, and California's Over, all three New York Times Notable Books. He is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. He is co-director of the Fiction Program of The Squaw Valley Community of Writers. e-mail: louisbjones@sbcglobal.net . An artist and award-winning author, Molly Katzen has written ten cookbooks including the Moosewood Cookbook, Still Life with Menu, Mollie Katzen’s Vegetable Heaven, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up, and her latest, Sunlight Cafe. website: www.molliekatzen.com . The authors of the Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus mystery series, Faye Kellerman’s novels include Stalker, Jupiter’s Bones, The Ritual Bath, The Forgotten, Serpent’s Tooth, Sanctuary and Prayers for the Dead. Her latest book is Stone Kiss (2002). She lives in Los Angeles with novelist husband Jonathan Kellerman. website: www.mysterynet.com/kellerman_faye/ . Child psychologist turned author, Jonathan Kellerman writes psychological thrillers, including The Clinic, When the Bough Breaks, Blood Test, Over the Edge, Silent Partner, Time Bomb, Private Eyes, Devil’s Waltz, Bad Love, Self-Defense, The Web and The Murder Book. He lives in Los Angeles with novelist wife Faye Kellerman. website: www.mysterynet.com/jkellerman/main/ Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and author of five poetry collections, including A Camellia for Judy, Feather's Hand, To A Small Moth, and The Book of Insects. She also has a chapbook in the Greatest Hits series from Puddinghouse Press. Her work appears in anthologies including Highway 99, A Literary Journey through California's Great Central Valley (Heyday Books) and Claiming the Spirit Within (Beacon Press). She is former editor-in-chief of the online journal Perihelion, has written for the Sacramento Bee and has worked as program director for the Sacramento Poetry Center and the Women's Wisdom Project, an arts program for homeless and low income women. Currently she teaches poetry workshops for University of California, Davis Extension. website: http://www.versedaily.org/aboutskellydewittboi.shtml . an award–winning author and Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and The Fifth Book of Peace. website: www.randomhouse.com/knopf . Southern California mystery writer Rochelle Krich writes crime novels, including the Jessie Drake series (Angel of Death, Blood Money, Dead Air and Shadows of Sin), Til Death Do Us Part and Nowhere to Run. Her latest is Blues in the Night (fall 2002), which begins the Molly Blume series. “Krich shows that she really knows her stuff.” — The New York Times website: www.rochellekrich.com Leora Krygier grew up in Philadelphia but has lived in Los Angeles since the late 1970's. Her new novel, When She Sleeps, was released by Toby Press in December 2004.
website: www.leorakrygier.com . e-mail: lgkrygier@aol.com . Southern California author of Lightning, Midnight, Cold Fire, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, False Memory and other novels. His latest is By the Light of the Moon. website: www.randomhouse.com/features/koontz/classic.html . The author of six novels including Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart, as well as three non-fiction books, Operating Instructions, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, and Traveling Mercies. Anne Lamott’s most recent novel is Blue Shoe.(fall 2002). contact: www.barclayagency.com/lamott.html As a graduate of Harvard Medical School, Vladimir Lange's fifteen years as a doctor of emergency medicine and his eighteen years as an international, award-winning medical multi-media producer — including his best-selling book, Be a Survivor: Your Guide to Breast Cancer Treatment — have prepared him for his current incarnation as a novelist of techno-medical thrillers. He is the author of Fatal Memories (Red Square Press, March 2005). website: www.vladimirlange.com
. e-mail: author@vladimirlange.com Prize-winning playwright and author of Never Trust A Man In Curlers and Highest Traditions. San Francisco native now living in Marin County, CA. “Highest Traditions is the true story of the authors experiances flying as a door gunner on a UH-1D (Huey) helicopter in Vietnam. Highest Traditions is one of the best Vietnam memoirs ever to cross my desk.” — RebeccaReads.com website: www.tlazz.com . e-mail: tlazzarini@earthlink.net . Poet, writer on film, novelist, educator, environmentalist. Contributor, On The Waterfront (July 2003); Becoming Human, Wrestling With The Angel, poetry; Second Chances, novel; A Poetics for Screenwriters and The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television (with Ben Brady), film; Time’s Up and Other Plays, Time’s Up, and Fox, Hound, and Huntress in Playwrights for Tomorrow, Vol. 10. The Cooked & The Raw, essays on screenwriting, film, and human nature is to come out in Spring, 2005 from the University of Texas Press. On A Poetics for Screenwriters: “This is a brilliant, all-encompassing work. I cannot recall a book on screenwriting which delves so deeply into the art and antecedents of screenwriting. Aristotle himself would, no doubt, congratulate Lance Lee. However, without waiting for the great Greek's response, put me down as a ‘Bravo!’ ” — William Froug, author of Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade and Zen and the Art of Screenwriting 2 e-mail: via Los Angeles literary agent Dorris Halsey, Reece Halsey Agency: gulyas911@aol.com . Peter Lefcourt is the author of five previous novels: The Deal, The Dreyfus Affair, Di & I, Abbreviating Ernie, and The Woody. His current novel, Eleven Karens (Simon & Schuster, 2003), is an erratically fictional memoir of his romantic involvement with eleven women named Karen. Website: www.peterlefcourt.com E-mail: lefcourt@earthlink.net The author of Flash House (2003), Liu also has written two other novels, Cloud Mountain (1997) and Face (1994). Her novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Liu published an acclaimed memoir of anorexia nervosa, Solitaire (1979), at the age of twenty-five. She has worked as an associate producer for NBC's “Today” show, co-authored seven nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics and is past president of the national writers’ organization PEN Center USA. Liu teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension. Website: www.aimeeliu.net . Los Angles Times columnist also writes detective novels: In the Clear, The Sunday Macaroni Club and Third and Indiana. . Venita Louise was born in Southern California, and grew up in the San Fernando Valley. Her poetry works include The Last Time and On Bended Bough, both winning honorable mentions. Her short stories and essays have appeared in several venues. Set in the mid-sixties, her comedy/romance novel, Mixed Nuts, depicts family dysfunction at its finest. Additional works include In The Rough, an adventure/romance novel, and Dead on the Money, a mystery novel set in the 1940's. Venita resides in Castaic, California. Website: http://VenitaLouise.net Mackey’s published works include four volumes of poetry (Split Ends, One Night Stand, Skin Deep, and The Dear Dance of Eros); a novella (Immersion); and nine novels (McCarthy's List; The Last Warrior Queen; A Grand Passion; Season of Shadows; The Kindness of Strangers; The Year The Horses Came; The Horses at the Gate; The Fires of Spring; and The Stand In). Her tenth novel is Sweet Revenge (Kensington/ 2004). Breaking The Fever, her fifth collection of poetry, will be published by Oso Books in fall 2004. She is a Professor of English and Writer in Residence at California State University in Sacramento, where she teaches creative writing and film. Website: www.marymackey.com . major became the third Poet Laureate for San Francisco in 2002. Her poetry books include street smarts (Curbstone Press); where river meets ocean (City Lights Foundation); and with more than tongue (Creative Arts Books, Inc.). She has two novels published, An Open Weave (Seal Press) and Brown Glass Windows (Curbstone Press). Her poems, short stories, and essays are available in a number of magazines and anthologies. She has taught poetry and creative writing as community artist–in–residence and/or college lecturer for more than twenty years. “A visionary of hope, with a heart big enough to embrace every neighborhood, street and alley in this magical and poetical city. Here is a poet who shoots straight as Cupid’s arrow. Zing! Right to the heart.” — Alejandro Murguia, author of This War Called Love, winner of the American Book Award 2003 website: www.citylights.com The author of Silent Lies, M.L.Malcolm would love to meet with or "call in" to your book club! Born in New York, Malcolm earned a B.A. and an M.A. in political science from Emory University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She eventually determined that "she and the law were not meant for each other," and is now a self-described "recovering attorney." M.L. Malcolm spent a year in France as a Rotary Foundation Fellow, and has won several awards for her short fiction. She lives in Los Angeles.
website: www.SilentLies.com . e-mail: mlmalc2@aol.com website: www.anthonymarais.com . e-mail: info@anthonymarais.com is the author of ten books, including Dirty (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003); Class Dismissed (St. Martins, 2000); Notes From An Incomplete Revolution (Bantam, 1997); and What It's Like To Live Now (Bantam, 1995). She is a frequent contributor to Salon, Health, Family Circle, and other national magazines, and lives in Oakland. website: www.meredithmaran.com . e-mail: meredithmaran@aol.com Martínez was born in Los Angeles and is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet and performer. He was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University and an editor for the Pacific News Service. In 2002, he received a literary fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He is the author of Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail; and The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City and Beyond. His newest book is The New Americans (The New Press, 2004), a companion to the PBS television series detailing the lives of migrant families. . The author of Tales of the City and the sequel, More Tales of the City. Armistead Maupin’s latest novel is The Night Listener. website: www.literarybent.com . contact: www.barclayagency.com/maupin.html A longtime activist and women's rights advocate, Robyn McGee is the author of Hungry for More: A Keeping-it-Real Guide to Black Women's Weight and Body Image. She is Director of Women's Resources at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she focuses on education and fundraising for women's health issues. Her work has been published in Seventeen, The Black World Today, and Fireweed. She lives in Southern California with her daughter.
website: www.robynwrites.com . e-mail: robyn@robynwrites.com is the author of the novel Stop That Girl (Random House, 2005). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Pushcart Prize XXV, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, and ZYZZYVA; her stories have been performed at Symphony Space in New York and Stories on Stage in Chicago, and recorded for NPR’s "Selected Shorts." A former staff editor at The Atlantic Monthly, she lives in Santa Cruz. website: www.stopthatgirl.com . e-mail: eam@cruzio.com Christina Meldrum is a Harvard Law School graduate and former litigator who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her first novel is Madapple (Alfred A. Knopf/ May 2008). Madapple is at once a literary novel and a psychological thriller, a novel of suspense and an intellectual puzzle. Addictive and thought-provoking, Madapple is a page-turning exploration of human nature and divine intervention—and of the darkest corners of the human soul. website: www.christinameldrum.com . e-mail: christina@christinameldrum.com . Living in the southern Sierra, Marilyn Meredith has placed her fictional heroine, Deputy Tempe Crabtree, in the same locale. Books in the series include: Deadly Omen, Unequally Yoked, Intervention (Golden Eagle Press), and Deadly Trail (Hard Shell Word Factory), a prequel. She also wrote Final Respects (The Fiction Works) and Guilt by Association (Treble Heart Publishing). “I love the Tempe Crabtree books. The characters are so real, so mixed up, so flawed, and so wonderful, that I find myself wanting so much for Tempe. I would truly like to introduce her to the world, so if you haven’t discovered Marilyn Meredith as an author, you might be cheating yourself out of some great reads. Yes, she’s that good. The quality doesn't fade as this series progresses, it only grows stronger.” — Patricia Lucas White, Crescent Blues Book Views website: http://fictionforyou.com e-mail: mmeredith@ocsnet.net is a critic and occasional reporter for SF Weekly, San Francisco Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and The New York Times. His first novel, Too Much of Nothing, is set in the fictional town of Calaveras Beach. A beautiful novel that manages to be scary, funny, and absolutely compelling. Moore's talent for transporting the reader into the very heart of his fictional California surf town is astonishing. — Joy Nicholson, author of The Tribes of Palos Verdes website: www.radiofreemike.com . Columnist for the Los Angeles Times and host of KCET’s The BookShow, Patt Morrison is the author of Rio L.A.:Tales from the Los Angeles River, which won the Southern California Bookseller’s Award for best nonfiction book (2002). She lives in Los Angeles. “Patt Morrison writes so well she proves there is water in the L.A. River 425 days a year.” — Ray Bradbury. website: www.pattmorrison.com An Indian-born American novelist, Bharati Mukherjee is the author of Desirable Daughters and four other works of fiction. She also has written two nonfiction books, and a collection of short stories, The Middleman & Other Stories, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Mukherjee is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Website: http://english.berkeley.edu . Nava is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, columnist and author of It's All in the Frijoles. She has appeared on KXTV & KTXL/TV, Sacramento, and KNBC & KCET/TV, Los Angeles, and also hosted the nationally syndicated TV magazine Latin Tempo. The Latino Literary Hall of Fame awarded It's All in The Frijoles the 2001 Best Self-help Book Award. e-mail: NavaAssoc@aol.com Orange County native, Alyson Noel, is the author of the teen novels, Fakin 19, Art Geeks and Prom Queens, and Laguna Cove. Art Geeks and Prom Queens was the winner of the NYPL Book of Winter award. Her first adult novel, Fly Me to the Moon, will be released in December 2006. She lives in Laguna Beach, CA. website: www.alysonnoel.com . Children’s author whose work includes work includes If You Give a Mouse A Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. Laura Numeroff lives in Southern California and has a new autobiography for kids: If You Give an Author a Pencil (2002) website: www.lauranumeroff.com Raised in Los Angeles and now living in the Sierra foothills, William O'Daly is a poet, translator, and fiction writer. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, his published works include six books of the late and posthumous poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda (Still Another Day, The Separate Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow Heart, and The Book of Questions), and a chapbook of his own poems, The Whale in the Web. With his co-author, Han-ping Chin, he recently completed |
