Lauren Davis

Lauren Davis is an Eisner-nominated comic book writer and cartoonist. With Mel Hilario and Katie Longua, Davis co-created the graphic novel Debian Perl, Digital Detective and the upcoming graphic novel Agent Cupcake. Her short comics have appeared…

Sandy White

Sandy White has a BFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She recently graduated from Dominican University of California with an MFA in creative writing. Her poetry has…

Nichole Turnbloom

Nichole Turnbloom lives in Sonoma County and works as a yoga therapist to alleviate pain and facilitate healing with clients, which is not unlike the process of writing poetry, on some days. She is currently a graduate candidate at Dominican…

Reneé Marie

Reneé Marie moved from Vermont to Sacramento in 2006 to serve with the Army’s Wounded Warriors In Transition Program. After a deployment to Afghanistan in 2010, she made California her home. Major Marie is now a Retired Reserve, Medical Service…

Abby Peyton Laporte

Abby Peyton Laporte is an MFA student of narrative medicine. She is previously published in The Berkeley Times Poetry Edition, Unlimited Literature, and Tuxedo Literary Magazine, with two chapbooks available (Bitter Elixir and Sacred Lucidity).…

Matthew Kline

Matthew Kline is an MFA Candidate at Dominican University of California and a bookseller at Sausalito Books by the Bay. He writes about anxiety and the unknown and has a novel in the works. His writing has been published in the Pennsylvania…

Judy Halebsky

Judy Halebsky is the author of three poetry collections—Sky=Empty, Tree Line, and Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)—and the chapbook Space/Gap/Interval/Distance. Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, she holds an MFA in English…

Britta Stromeyer Esmail

Britta Stromeyer Esmail is a writer and educator passionate about raising resilient girls and writers to find their own voice. She is the author of Raina’s (UN) Happy Birthday, a picture book recipient of the Gold Seal of the Mom’s Choice…

Brenda Hillman

Brenda Hillman is an activist, writer, editor, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry, all from Wesleyan University Press, including Extra Hidden Life Among the Days, (Winner of 2019 Northern California Book Award), Seasonal…

Henri Cole

Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published ten previous collections of poetry, including Touch (winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize) and Pierce the Skin (winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award), and a memoir, Orphic…