Dan Barth

Dan Barth's poetry, fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications including Ant Farm, Beat Scene, Dharma Beat, Jazz Times, Redwood Coast Review, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Western American Literature, Whole Earth Review, Wild Duck Review and Zam Bomba!. He is the author of Ukiah Haiku: Journal of a Year (Goin' Prose Press, 1996), Coyote Haiku (Secret Goldfish Press, 2004) and Fast Women Beautiful: Zen Beat Baseball Poems (Tenacity Press, 2008), and a contributing editor of The Redwood Coast Review.

Daniel was born and reared in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a graduate of Duke University with a B. A. in Anthropology. He lives near Talmage with his wife Mary and their son Nate. In addition to writing and editing, he works as a teacher and librarian at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage.

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Marc Bojanowski

Marc Bojanowski graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received his MFA in creative writing from The New School. His writing has appeared in The Literary Review. He lives in northern California. His first novel, The Dog Fighter, was highly acclaimed and received critical attention, with some critics comparing him to a young Ernest Hemingway. He recently completed his second novel.

Armand Brint

Armand Brint has published two books of poetry: Schools of Lightand The League of Slow Cities. He was also Poet Laureate of Ukiah from 2001-2004.

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C.E. Chaffin

C.E. Chaffin, M.D., FAAFP, is a contributing editor for Umbrella. Credits include The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Pedestal, The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review and Rattle. He published The Melic Review for eight years. His new volume, Unexpected Light was released by Diminuendo Press in 2009. He also teaches an online poetry tutorial. Inquiries can be made at his website:

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Molly Dwyer

Molly Dwyer has been a transformational educator for twenty
years. She earned an MA from Sonoma State University and a PhD from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. Her debut novel, Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, was nominated for the 2009 Northern California Book Award in Fiction-one of "the Bay Area's Best and Brightest."

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Doris Eraldi

Born and raised in Northern California, Doris Eraldi is a horsewoman, web designer and author. Her first novel, Settler's Law, (Berkeley, 1999) is a Western Historical set in 1883 Montana Territory and the sequel, Settler's Chase, will be released this July. She currently edits and writes for two monthly online magazines, working from her home in Potter Valley, California, where she lives on a small ranch with her partner, seven horses and two dogs.

 

Armando Garcia-Davila

Armando Garcia-Davila is the author of three poetry collections, El Gran Viento, Out of My Heart, and At the Edge of the River and has had short stories and poems published in small press publications.

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Jean Hegland

Jean Hegland is the author of a book of nonfiction, The Life Within: Celebration of a Pregnancy, and two novels, Windfalls, and Into the Forest.  Into the Forest has been translated into a dozen languages and been chosen for a number of college- and community-wide reading programs; Windfalls is often book group pick; and portions of The Life Within have been excerpted in a college English textbook, a high school science textbook, and a book about journal-keeping for pregnant women.  Her third novel, Rapids, is currently with her agent, and she is at work on another novel, tentatively titled So Quick Bright Things.
 
Jean Hegland has taught creative writing at Santa Rosa Junior College for many years, as well as teaching at the Mediterranean Center for Arts and Sciences in Sicily, and the University of York St. John in York, England.  She lives in the hills west of Healdsburg.

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Elizabeth Haze Vega

Elizabeth Haze Vega is an author, an educator and a musician. She teaches 5th grade in the Healdsburg Unified School district. Elizabeth integrates the arts into her classroom and works with young writers, empowering them to become the heroes of their own stories. This year she was honored and recognized by Congressman Michael Thompson, for her work in environmental education. Nature figures strongly in her beautifully illustrated children's book, The Laughing River, a Folktale for Peace. This musical story is orchestrated and narrated by the author and has been presented as a theater piece by Sonoma Counties 'Actor's Theater' and school children across the United States. Elizabeth will facilitate a drum building workshop and an interactive presentation of the Laughing River, which integrates drumming, instrument playing, and singing. Participants will share in the telling of this delightful folktale for peace.

 

Peg Kingman

It was during the late 1990s - while Peg Kingman was a tea merchant and a beginning bagpiper -that she first stumbled across the marvelous but all-too-obscure history which sparked her novel Not Yet DrownÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡d. As founder of a tea company (now defunct), she was delighted to obtain a few genuine tea plants grown from wild Chinese seed stock, and arranged for a local grower to propagate the plants. Soon she was shipping young tea plants to tea enthusiasts throughout the United States. Her second novel, Original Sins, will be released this summer by W.W. Norton.

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Norbert Korte

Described by Denise Levertov as One of Americas foremost undiscovered poets, and by Anne Waldman as one of the lesser known illuminati (her favorite), Mary Norbert Korte has been writing in the woods of Mendocino County since 1972. Author of several books of poems, and contributor to many anthologies, Korte's passion has always been poetry: the making and proclaiming of it from boardrooms to bars, from schoolrooms to street corners.

 

 

Ethel Mays

Ethel Mays, poet from the Sierra Nevada foothills of Tulare County, has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines and is a frequent reader at poetry events throughout California. She splits writing and living time between San Francisco and Caspar, California

Blake More

A resident of Point Arena, Blake More is an artist with many creative voices and expressions, poetry being her first obsession, though her work is all over the map: from book, magazine, poetry and playwriting to performance art, dance and yogic trapeze; from teaching poetry, video and drama to costume design, functional mixed media art/life pieces and wildly painted poetry art cars. She has recently discovered a passion for radio and has become the host of her own web radio poetry show called Cartwheels on the Sky (www.snakelyone.com/radio/radio-home.html) and is also the fourth Monday host of Women's Voices on KZYX&Z Mendocino, listener supported radio. Her newest book godmeat is a collection of poetry, prose, color artwork, and a DVD compilation of poem movies (available at www.godmeat.com).

 

 

Pamela Pizzimenti

Pamela Pizzimenti grew up in Concord, California. She has been a teacher for 8 years, where she has enjoyed learning from her students what kinds of stories and themes young adults enjoy reading. Prior to becoming a teacher, she was a radio personality for eight years in California's Central Valley under the name Kellie McCoy. She received her BA in Mass Communications from California State University, East Bay. She now lives in Windsor, California with her husband and four children. Her book The River Whispers was Teenage Division Winner - 2009 Beach Book Festival, Teenage Division 2nd place - 2009 Hollywood Book Festival, and Young Adult & Juvenile Fiction Finalist - 2009 Indie Book Awards.

Robin Rule

Robin Rule, author of eight books, four published, is the publisher at
Rainy Day Women Press in Willits and frequently reads her work in the great northwest. She has also read in Paris at Club des Poets and published in their yearly anthology Poesie, and at Sigh Johnny's, an Irish pub for ex-patriots.

She has a tape Rain on Timber with Karen Almquist and several CDs of poetry and poetry and music. She is currently working with bluesman Patrick Grizzell making a full length CD with band in Sacramento. Her work can be purchased by writing P.O. 1085 Willits, CA 95490

 

 

Tara Sufiana

Born in Switzerland of a Swiss father and American mother, Tara Sufiana has lived most of her life in the U.S.A., with extended travels in 30 countries. Her professions include flamenco dancing, singing, modeling, belly dancing, acting and writing. Tara's articles have been published in leading magazines in four countries. She conducts workshops in Egyptian Dervish dance internationally. When not traveling she resides in her mountain home in northern California. Her book The Sword and the Rose is a memoir.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sandra Wade

Sandra Wade is Poet Laureate for Lake County, appointed to serve from 2006-2008. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals over the past twenty years. She is currently working on a compact disc of her poems which she hopes will be produced in time for LitFest.

Theresa Whitehill

Theresa Whitehill is a poet, designer, and letterpress printer. She is well-known to Mendocino regional audiences as an expressive performer. Her poetry appears in California magazines and anthologies, and her letterpress broadsides, many produced with her husband artist Paulo Ferreira, are in major national collections.

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