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In 1994, Bay Area novelist/screenwriter Holly Payne was hit by a drunk driver and spent a year learning to walk again. The driver wrote her a letter of apology, and instead of replying, she decided to…
Linda Himelstein wrote The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire. She is a veteran of the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, CNN and C-SPAN. She lives near San Francisco.
Camille Picott has written fiction since age 12. As an infant, Camille was given an Asian rag doll in the hope she would always maintain a connection to her Chinese heritage. This doll inspired Raggedy Chan.
Andy Raskin authored The Ramen King and I. His stories appeared on All Things Considered, This American Life, and in the New York Times and Gourmet. A 2009 James Beard Foundation Journalism Awards judge, Andy lives in San Francisco
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s Tulips, Water, Ash (UP of New England) was selected for the 2009 Morse Prize. Her poems have appeared in Blackbird, The Iowa Review, 32 Poems, and Quarterly West. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son.
Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the poetry & flash collections, neocom(muter) & Coming WorldGone World. A former and likely future political activist, his life is currently controlled by a five year-old girl.
Holly Lynn Payne is a Mill Valley novelist, screenwriter, writing coach, and founder of the Skywriter Books imprint and publishing consultancy. Her forthcoming novel is a medieval ghost story involving Sufi mysticism.
Alexandra Teague‘s first book, Mortal Geography (Persea), winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Prize, is forthcoming in April 2010. A 2006-2008 Stegner Fellow, her work has appeared in Best New Poets 2008 and Best American Poetry 2009.
T.J. Stiles won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.
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