Kathryn J. 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.
“This is a thoughtful, sensitive, and very honest double portrait of a painter and of the writer who attempts to capture her lonely artistry in words, only to discover that both their stories are inextricably mirrored. It successfully comb ines biography, art history, the literature of place, and the personal essay.” — Phillip Lopate
website: www.kathrynabajian.com.e-mail: kathryn@kathrynabajian.com
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.good works: www.wildwritingwomen.com
Mark Arax 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. He also is co-author of
The King of California.
“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.
e-mail: mark.arax@sbcglobal.net
Stacy Bierlein 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 addition to story, there’s rhythm here — heart and depth and precision. Reading them on the page I am struck with their lyricism and urgency.” — Lisa Glatt, author of A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That
website: www.othervoicesmagazine.org
Ray Bradbury 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
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard Born in the Philippines and now a Santa Monica resident, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard is the author and editor of a dozen books, including the internationally acclaimed novel,
When the Rainbow Goddess Wept (University of Michigan Press);
Magdalena; and
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults (PALH). Most of her books explore her Philippine and Philippine-American experiences. She has received several awards including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate 21st District, and a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths.
website: www.ceciliabrainard.com.e-mail: cbrainard@aol.com
Lynette Brasfield 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
Richard Alan Bunch 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
Allison Burnett 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
Chris Carlsson 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
Beverly Cleary 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
Michelle Cliff 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 novel. At the heart of this story are two African-American women, comrades of abolitionist John Brown. Michelle Cliff brings together a fabulous cast of outsiders to retell New World history from the women warriors’ point of view.” — Elle.
website: www.citylights.com
Mark Coggins 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
Sharleen Cooper Cohen 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
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
Kamau Daáood 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
Antonio Damasio. 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
Lucille Lang Day 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
Joan Del Monte 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.
“The centuries old saffron mystique is a terrific device for a mystery.” — The Literary Guild, on Death had a Yellow Thumb
website: www.joandelmonte.com
David Dodd 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
Laurel Doud is a native Californian whose debut novel,
This Body, was published in hardback, paperback, and translated into German. Film rights for
This Body were optioned by Fox 2000, then Hartbreak Productions for Melissa Joan Hart, respectively. She is working on a next novel set in Berlin Germany before World War I and Hollywood in the 1920s-1930s. Doud is a research librarian and lives in the Sierra Foothills outside Fresno.
“A frisky, riveting debut… With Doud’s brightly visceral prose and deft sense of tragicomedy, This Body proves equally engrossing for the senses, soul, and mind.” — Megan Harlan, Entertainment Weekly
website: www.hachettebookgroupusa.com
email: ldoud555@aol.com
Joel Drucker 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
Wylene Dunbar 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.
Elliot Feldman 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
Bill Fitzhugh 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.good works: www.flight711.com
Elaine Flinn A California native, and former San Francisco antiques dealer, Elaine Flinn’s debut novel,
Dealing in Murder, A Molly Doyle Mystery (Avon) was published in 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
Anjuelle Floyd 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.
“Karmic truth, the effect of our decisions with our secrets and our deepest loves, comes back and squeeze the hearts of these characters…” — Clive Matson, author of Let the Crazy Child Write! and winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award for Outstanding Writing.
website:www.anjuellefloyd.com
Sesshu Foster 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.
“This is pure California mainlined straight into language that sears the skin off 99 percent of what purports to be literary competence.” — Alvin Lu, The San Francisco Bay Guardian
website: www.citylights.com . www.english.uiuc.edu.e-mail: sesshu@earthlink.net
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
Kathi Kamen Goldmark 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
Sue Grafton 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
Peter Grandbois 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.
“Readers who revel in magic realism will embrace this poignant debut about a poor but honest Spaniard with a gift for communicating with the dead. Reminiscent of the work of Luis Alberto Urrea and Gabriel García Márquez, this luminous first offering brims with earthy humor and heart” — Booklist starred review
website: brothersgrandbois.com.email: peter@brothersgrandbois.com
Reyna Grande 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
Andrew Sean Greer 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
Sands Hall 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
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
Eloise Klein Healy is the author of six books of poetry, including the
The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho (Red Hen Press, 2007). She founded the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Antioch University Los Angeles and Arktoi Books (an imprint of Red Hen Press), and co-founded ECO-ARTS, an eco-tourism arts venture.
website: www.eloisekleinhealy.com.e-mail: contact.ekh@mac.com
Annamaria Hemingway 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
Bonnie Hearn Hill Intern (Mira Books, Feb. 2003, hardcover), about the disappearance of a California state senator’s intern/lover, is the first of six novels. She has worked (now part-time) for
The Fresno Bee since 1982.
e-mail: bonniehearnhill@comcast.net
Jack Hirschman 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).
Khaled Hosseini 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
Freeman House 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: www.freemanhouse.net.e-mail: lfhouse@inreach.com.good works: www.mattole.org
Laurel House 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
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.
“Kate Hovey’s verse is an excellent storytelling medium–clear, pictorial, full of action…the poems use a great variety of perspectives and (with good classical precedent) let us in on the very human feelings of the immortals.” — Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate of the United States, 1987
website: www.KateHovey.com
Arianna Huffington 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
Edward Humes A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Edward Humes is the best-selling author of nine nonfiction books, including
Baby E.R.,
No Matter How Loud I Shout,
Mean Justice, and
Mississippi Mud. He frequently lectures at universities and conferences, and enjoys teaching narrative nonfiction writing workshops. Ed 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
Pico 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
Susan Schott Karr A San Francisco resident, Susan Schott Karr is the author of nine nonfiction children’s books, which have been published by Pearson Learning Group for use in the classroom as part of an effort to motivate reticent readers to read. For the past nineteen years, Karr has edited and written financial, technical, and marketing communications for more than forty Fortune 500 companies, as well as for many smaller ones. She has published more than forty-five magazine articles in Financial Executive and Compliance Week magazines.
“When I was a supervising editor in educational publishing, Susan was one of my best go-to writers for children’s nonfiction books. She can write on any subject, she is never fazed by guideline changes and always meets her deadlines, and her work is consistently accurate and engaging” — Cindy Kane
website: www.wordsuite.com. email: susankarr@wordsuite.com
Molly Katzen An artist and award-winning author, Molly Katzen has written ten cookbooks including the
