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Rain Ananael is an ecologist and writer who lives in the northern California Coastal ecosystem. She has a B.S. in Ecology from Colorado Mesa University, extensive graduate work in Conservation from the University of Pennsylvania and CSU, and an MA in English from CSU, Sacramento. She is one of the founding members of a CSU, Sacramento writing group, whose members formed the new Editorial Board of Convergence Journal. She continues to work in various capacities as an ecologist, conservationist, writer and editor. Lytton Bell Lytton Bell has published three books (A Path Before Winter, 1998; The Book of Chaps, 2002; and Nectar, 2011), won five poetry contests and performed at many venues. She is a member of Poetica Erotica and her work has appeared in over two dozen publications. Bell earned a poetry scholarship to the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts in 1988 and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1993. She is a civil servant by day. Cynthia Linville (Managing Editor/Designer) Cynthia Linville teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and frequently hosts and reads at poetry events both on her own and with Poetica Erotica. Her book of collected poems, The Lost Thing, is available from Cold River Press. The last poem in the book, “I am Fortune’s Ungraceful Daughter,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012. A music aficionado with a theater background, Cynthia is usually out and about supporting the arts in Sacramento and in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
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Myles Boisen Myles Boisen is a recording engineer, album producer, professional musician, teacher and writer who lives in Oakland, California. His photography has appeared in print publications and on fashion and music websites. He regularly shows his work in Bay Area galleries. View more of his photos at www.flickr.com/photos/21341545@N00/ and find out more about his work at www.MylesBoisen.com. Dane Cobain Dane Cobain has written a collection of poetry and a number of full-length pieces of fiction and non-fiction. His new book, Oceanus, is an occasionally psychedelic and often nonsensical exploration of the Titanic. For more information, visit his website. Johanna DeBiase Johanna DeBiase is a writer living in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Her poems and fiction have appeared in SNReview, Hot Metal Press, the Wising Up Press anthology Through a Glass Darkly and the anthology Home Tomorrow by 6E Publishing, among others. In her spare time, she edits an online collaborative of Taos, New Mexico writers called Petroglyphs. Most recently, she finished work on her novella, Mama & the Hungry Hole, as a resident and grant recipient at the Vermont Studio Center. Elijah Enos Elijah Enos studies at California State University, Sacramento, where he is working on a degree in English. He envisions a poetry in which clear, direct images convey a philosophical depth, a poetry in which the past is made present and impermanent things become symbols of vitality. He has been published in the anthology Late Peaches: Poems by Sacramento Poets. Grant Flint Grant Flint has been published in the Story Quarterly, Nation, King’s English, Poetry, Weber, Courtland Review, Sun, Slow Trains, Northwind, and 37 other print and online journals. He won the memoir prize in the 2007 Soul Making Literary Contest, was published in the 2007 Writer’s Digest Short Story Competition Collection, and was nominated for a 2009 Pushcart Prize. Bill Freedman Bill Freedman is a retired English literature professor, currently teaching part time and serving on the board of governors at Sakhnin College for Teacher Education in the Arab town of Sakhnin, Israel. In addition to books and essays on literary criticism and theory and an oral history of baseball fans, he has published three books of poetry. His poems have been included in the Antioch Review, Iowa Review, Shenandoah, Quarterly, International Quarterly, Dalhousie Review, Nation and elsewhere. A.J. Huffman A.J. Huffman is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has previously published six collections of poetry all available on Amazon.com. She has also published her work in numerous national and international literary journals. Most recently, she has accepted the position as editor for four online poetry journals for Kind of a Hurricane Press. Find more about A.J. Huffman, including links to her work, on Facebook and Twitter. James Lee Jobe James Lee Jobe has been published in Manzanita, Tule Review, Pearl, and many other periodicals. His poems are also included in The Sacramento Anthology: 100 Poems; Jewel of the Valley: A California Anthology, and How to Be This Man: The Walter Pavlich Memorial Anthology. He edited and published the poetry journals Clan of the Dog and One Dog Press. What God Said When She Finally Answered Me, his fourth chapbook, is available from Rattlesnake press. He is a producer of radio commercials in Sacramento and lives in Davis, California with his wife and children. He posts new poems regularly on his blog Pablo. April Salzano April Salzano teaches college writing in Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in Poetry Salzburg, Pyrokinection, Convergence, Ascent Aspirations, Rainbow Rose, Camel Saloon, Applicant, Mindful Word, Napalm and Novocain, Second Hump, and is forthcoming in Jellyfish Whispers, South Townsville Micro Poetry Journal, and Inclement. She is working on her first collection of poetry and an autobiographical novel on raising a child with Autism. Fabio Sassi Fabio Sassi started making visual artwork after varied experiences in music and writing. He creates acrylics with the stencil technique on board, canvas, or other media. He uses logos, tiny objects and whatever is considered to have no worth by the mainstream. He stilll prefers to shoot with an analog camera. Fabio lives and works in Bologna, Italy. His work can be viewed at www.fabiosassi.foliohd.com. Anita Scharf Anita Scharf’s photos appear in many publications, including the University of the Pacific Swimming and Capital Public Radio media guides. She specializes in commercial portraiture, athletic events, and fine art platinum-palladium printing. She teaches writing at California State University at Sacramento and owns Scharf Photography. You can view more of her work and contact her there. Allyson Seconds Allyson Seconds is a singer, musician and physical culturist with an artist's mind. She discovered photography studying sculpture at UC Davis and has since shot for several publications, bands, record labels, and gallery shows. She likes messing with the precision of digital photography, tousling its perfect hair-do. You can contact her at alnational1@gmail.com. Jeanine Stevens Cherry Grove published Jeanine's collection, Sailing on Milkweed, and Finishing Line Press released her sixth chapbook, Women in Cafes. She has received awards from the Mendocino Coast Writer's Workshop, Stockton Arts Commission, Bay Area Poet's Coalition, and the Ekphrasis Prize. Her work has appeared or will appear in Poet Lore, South Dakota Review, Edge, Tule Review, Sierra Nevada Review, PMS poem-memoir-story, Alehouse, and Quercus Review, among others. Her essays and photos have appeared in other publications. Besides poetry, Jeanine enjoys Balkan folk dancing, Tai Chi, and collage. Don Thompson Don Thompson been publishing his work for over forty years. Recent chapbooks are Turning Sixty from March Street Press, which published Been There, Done That a few years ago, and Sittin’ on Grace Slick’s Stoop from Pudding House. Where We Live was released from Parallel Press. Back Roads was selected as the winner of the 2008 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook competition. Its sequel, Everything Barren will be Blessed has just come out from Pinyon Publishing. Michael J. Vaughn Michael J. Vaughn's poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming in Many Mountains Moving, Yarrow, Montserrat Review, Confrontation and Caveat Lector. He is a regular contributor to Writer's Digest in the areas of fiction and poetry, and his novel The Popcorn Girl is available from Amazon.com. Brenda Yamen Brenda Yamen is a Health Scientist and amateur photographer currently residing in Washington DC. She has loved photography since the age of 15 and goes nowhere without her trusty sidekick, Nigel the Nikon. Brenda's interest in photography occasionally crosses paths with her love of great music; her photos have been used by some of her favorite musicians. In addition to concert photography, Brenda enjoys landscape and nature photography, and travels extensively searching for her next photo op. Her collection can be seen at www.flickr.com/photos/bjy/. |
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