Elaine Bartlett was the recipient of the 2003 Yemassee prize in fiction and a scholarship to the 2002 Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop. Her poetry and fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as So to Speak, Blithe House Quarterly, Calyx and Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. She works as a journalist in San Jose.

Email: elaine@sjal.org

Designer

Luis Ledezma is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo where he earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is currently the webmaster of the San Jose Art League (www.sjal.org), Just Traveling E-Zine (www.justtraveling.net) and the town of Tuxca (www.tuxca.com). Ledezma resides in San Jose.

Email: lledezma@alumni.calpoly.edu

Associate Art Editor

Bea Garaidh is a poet and visual artist whose ceramic sculpture, plaques and drawings have been shown up and down the West Coast. She has also hosted poetry readings in the San Jose area for about seven years and has helped create and edit various publications throughout her artistic and poetic career. Garaidh has been president of the San Jose Art League (SJAL) since April of 2001.

Associate Poetry Editors

Lara Gularte is a graduate student in the M.F.A. creative writing program at San Jose State University and is a contributing writer for Downtown Magazine in San Jose. Her poetry has been published by The Santa Clara Review, The Montserrat Review, Writing for Our Lives, The Sandhill Review and others. Her chapbook, Days Between Dancing, was published by Poet’s Corner Press of Stockton. One of her poems was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2002.

Contributors

David Cummings’ work has appeared in Bellowing Ark, Poetry Flash and the Sand Hill Review. He has studied at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Poetry Workshop, the Napa Valley College Writers Conference, Recursos in Santa Fe and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Cummings lives and works in Sunnyvale.

Amy MacLennan has been published in Rattle, South Dakota Review, The Wisconsin Review, Slant and Confluence. One of her poems was included in the recently released So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets. She received a first place award in the 2003 Ina Coolbrith Circle poetry contest. MacLennan resides in Belmont.

Amy Miller’s poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in many magazines, ranging from Rattapallax, Borderlands, Rattle and Whiskey Island to Fine Gardening and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Her online column appears on Hazel Street (www.hazelst.com). She is a member of the Saturday Poets writing group and is one of the organizers for the Piccolo Poetry Reading Series. She lives in Burlingame.

Email: amymca@earthlink.net

Website: www.saturdaypoets.org/about.htm

Robin Somers won the Alice B. Longon award for women writing about the Southwest. She has been published in Dry Places by Pronghorn Press, Apostrophe and the Nevada City Poetry Anthology 2002. She has been a featured poet for Berkeley’s Watershed Festival and numerous readings in the Sierra Nevada foothills. She is in the M.F.A. program at San Jose State University.

Aradhna Tandon grew up in the small town of Hardoi in central India the youngest of six children. An artist since childhood, she has participated in many solo and group exhibitions, including shows at All India Fine Arts and Lalit Kala Akademi in New Dehli. Tandon will be featured at the gallery at the California Institute of Integral Studies in February and March 2004.