Judith Bishop is from New England and New York City but has been
living in California over twenty years. Her degree is in writing from Columbia,
and she won the Academy of American Poets University Prize—judged by Auden and
Marianne Moore—when she graduated. She has had her own press and worked as a
book designer, teacher, and symphonic violinist. She was an editor of Coastlight,
an anthology of Northern California poetry, and has published in many magazines
and anthologies, including Kalliope, Taos Review, Nimrod,
and americus review. She won the 1991 Five Fingers Review Chapbook Award
for The Longest Light, and her first full book is The Burning Place,
Fithian 1994. Her second book, Snow Mountain: The Health of the
Healers, has been a finalist several times and she “hopes it’s warming up
for a hit!”
Janel
Burnett is
a pacifist and poet living in Mountain View, California. Her poems have
appeared in The Eagle: New England's American Indian Journal, Caesura,
and elsewhere. She says, "Once a poem arises as a gift, the task is to
locate its musical notation."
Mary-Marcia
Casoly has
a degree in Creative Writing and Art from San Francisco State. Her poems have
appeared in Alchemy, Bellowing Ark, Chrysanthemum, The
Montserrat Review, and local anthologies.
Many of her poems were inspired by travels to far off places such as
Australia and Thailand. She serves on the Steering Committee of Waverley
Writers, a South Bay poetry forum, which meets once a month in Palo Alto. Her
first book, Run To Tenderness, is forthcoming by Pantograph and Goldfish
Press.
April
Eiler has
been a dancer for over 50 years with progressively lower standards and a writer
for over 40 years with progressively higher standards. Her poems have
appeared in many publications including Bellowing Ark, Blue Unicorn, The
Comstock Review and The Montserrat Review
Christina
Glass lives
and writes stories and screenplays in Salt Lake City.
Bill
Kirk grew
up in the east, moved west, worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
for 40 years, edited a semi-scientific journal, retired, and rewrote an old
story. May write a new story.
Janet Krauss has published her poetry widely in such journals as Plainsongs, American Goat, Spoon River Quarterly, Jewish Currents, and College English. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice, most recently in 1995. She is an adjunct professor at Fairfield University and St. Basil in Connecticut, where she tries to impress upon her students that learning and understanding occur through the written word. She feels her own work reflects her need through her love of language to comprehend situations, scenes and feelings that affect her.
Richard Lawson was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He holds a Master of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from Wayne State University. In addition to writing poetry, he has written and directed a number of musical comedies. He lives with his muse in Mountain View.