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Maxine Chernoff is the author of six collections of fiction, including the New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1993, Signs of Devotion. Both her novel, American Heaven, and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends that Year, were Ūnalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Her seven books of poetry include World: Poems 1991-2001 and Evolution of the Bridge: Selected Prose Poems (Salt Publishing, Cambridge, England). Editor of New American Writing, she lives with poet Paul Hoover and their three children in Mill Valley, California.
Valerie Coulton's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 26, A Magazine of Paragraphs, Barnabe Mountain Review, Chase Park, Coracle, Fourteen Hills, syllogism, and Volt. Her chapbook, passing world pictures, was published by EtherDome Press in 2002. Another chapbook, the lily book, is the recipient of the 2003 Michael Rubin Chapbook Award and will be published by San Francisco State University.
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was raised in India and Nepal. Tsering received her MA from University of Massachussetts and her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her first book of poems, Rules of the House, published by Apogee Press in 2002 was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards in 2003. Other publications include two chapbooks, In Writing the Names (A.bacus, Potes & Poets Press) and Recurring Gestures (Tangram Press). Tsering works for a San Francisco based non-profit foundation that provides humanitarian aid to people of the Himalayas.
Kathleen Fraser's sixteen books include her recent chapbook of collaged wall pieces hi dde violeth i dde violet and an essay collection Translating the Unspeakable, Poetry and the Innovative Necessity. She has collaborated on two artist books — boundayr, with aquatints by Sam Francis, and from a text, with original paintings by Mary Ann Hayden. Fraser currently teaches a Master's seminar at CCA focused on mixed genre writing and mixed media collaborations. During her teaching career at San Francisco State University she founded The American Poetry Archives and wrote/narrated the hour video "Women Working in Literature." After a Guggenheim took her to Italy in 1981, she established residence in Rome where she and husband A.K. Bierman live each spring, lecturing and translating. Fraser published and edited the ground-breaking journal HOW(ever) from 1983 to 1991, forwarding the dialogue between scholarship and innovative writing by women; in 1997 she initiated its more recent electronic version How2.
Alice Jones's books include The Knot which won the Beatrice Hawley Award in 1992 and Isthmus which won the Jane Kenyon Chapbook Award, both from Alice James Books. Anatomy was published by Bullnettle Press. Extreme Directions (The fifty four moves of Tai Chi Sword) was published by Omnidawn Press. She has been awarded fellowships by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Denver Quarterly, Volt, Chelsea, and Best American Poetry of 1994.
Stefanie Marlis is the author of three previous collections of poetry, Slow Joy, rife, and fine—which was also published by Apogee Press, and nominated for a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. The recipient of numerous awards, including an NEA fellowship, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and the Brittingham Prize, Stefanie works as a freelance copywriter. She lives in Patagonia, Arizona.
Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes's books include First
Language (Juniper Prize), To Remain (Gesu Award), and
Magnetism (Poetry Award from Bay Area book Reviewers Association).
His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Gettysburg
Review, Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review, New Yorker, Poetry, TriQuarterly,
Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best American Poetry.
He received a 1997 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
Poetry. Bodysongs, a collection of love poems, was published
by Heyeck Press in 1999, and Works and Days (Associated Writing
Programs Award Series) was published by the University of Pittsburgh
Press in 2000. With Frances Mayes, he is the author of In Tuscany,
and lives in San Francisco and Cortona, Italy.
Pattie McCarthy's bk of (h)rs was published by Apogee Press in 2002. She received her M.A. in Creative Writing-Poetry from Temple University. She is a founding editor of BeautifulSwimmer Press. Her work has appeared in many magazines and journals, including 26: a journal of poetry & poetics, American Letters & Commentary, ixnay magazine, Kiosk, and Pom2. She has taught literature and writing at Queens College of the City University of New York, Loyola College in Baltimore, and Towson University. She lives in Philadelphia.
Denise Newman is a poet and translator living
in San Francisco. Her translation of The Painted Room by
the Danish poet Inger Christensen will was published in the fall
of this year by The Harvill Press, U.K. She is the author of two
chapbooks, Why Pear? (Em Press) and Of Later Things Yet
to Happen (Meow Press). Her poems have appeared in Volt,
apex of the M, Chain, and Five Fingers Review, where
she is a staff editor. She has been a Djerassi Resident Artist,
and she teaches creative writing at the California College of Arts
and Crafts and at Mills College.
Elizabeth Robinson was educated at Bard College, Brown University, and Pacific School of Religion. Her previous books include In the Sequence of Falling Things, Bed of Lists, House Made of Silver, and Harrow. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a National Poetry Series Winner for Pure Descent. Her work was included in The Best American Poetry of 2002. She co-edits EtherDome Press, 26 Magazine, and Instance Press, and lives in Berkeley, California, with her family.
Edward Smallfield's poems and stories have appeared
in The Battery Review, Fourteen Hills, Manoa, Seven Hundred Kisses,
Yellow Silk, ZYZZYVA, and other periodicals. With Toni Mirosevich
and Charlotte Muse, he is the author of Trio. One Hundred
Famous Views of Edo, a collaboration with Doug MacPherson, will
be published by Battery Press this fall.
Cole Swensen's previous books include Try,
winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry
Center Book Award, and published by the University of Iowa Press
in 1999, and Noon, winner of Sun & Moon's New American Poetry
Award and published by that press in 1997. Numen, published
by Burning Deck Press in 1995, was a finalist for the Pen West Award
in Poetry, and another earlier book, New Math, was selected
in the National Poetry Series in 1987. She also translates contemporary
French poetry, fiction and art criticism, and has received grants
from the French National Bureau du Livre and from Fondation Beaumarchais
as well as residencies at the Camargo Foundation and the Atelier
Cosmopolite at Royaumont.
Truong Tran is the author of three previous collections of poetry and a children's book. The Book of Perceptions, published in 1999 by Kearny Street Workshop, was a finalist for The Kiriyama Prize. placing the accents, published in 1999 by Apogee Press, was a finalist for the Western States Book Prize for Poetry, and dust and conscience, also published by Apogee Press in 2002, was awarded the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Prize. He recently ventured into the world of children's literature, authoring Going Home Coming Home, published by Children's Book Press. In 2003, he served as Writer In Residence for Intersection for the Arts. Truong lives in San Francisco.
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