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Co-Directors
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Kathie Isaac-Luke
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Kathie Isaac-Luke's poetry collection, Chrysalides, was recently published by
Dragonfly Press. Editor of caesura, the journal of Poetry Center San Jose
for five years, she is a freelance writer for the Union Democrat. Kathie's
short story, "The Collection," was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart prize.
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Ginger Bennett Griffin
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Ginger Bennett Griffin, a clinical hypnotherapist for more than 30 years, is
completing a book, Affirming Your Life--Healing Your Life, in which she
incorporates her vast experience in accessing creativity, dream analysis,
effective use of affirmations and facilitating personal growth.
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Faculty
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Amy Franklin-Willis
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Amy Franklin-Willis
An eighth generation Southerner, Amy Franklin-Willis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She received an Emerging Writer Grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation in 2007 to complete The Lost Saints of Tennessee, a novel inspired by stories of her father's childhood in rural Pocahontas, Tennessee. Atlantic Monthly Press, a division of Grove/Atlantic, published The Lost Saints of Tennessee in 2012. It was an "Indie Next" Selection and a Vanity Fair "Hot Type" Pick. She now lives with her family on the West Coast.
You may find her on the web at http://www.amyfranklin-willis.com.
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Lost Saints of Tennesee
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Helen Bonner
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Helen Bonner
Helen Bonner, PhD, is founder of Starthistle Press. Her novel, Cry Dance, is the
winner of a 2012 Sharp Writ Book Award in the coveted general fiction category
In 2011 the novel was a finalist for the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award. Her
two memoirs, Laid Daughter and First Love Last, are becoming classics. A
historical novel, MsDemeanors, came out in February.
Dr. Bonner taught creative
writing at Ohio University and Minnesota State U. Her short story, Roadside
Trinity, won several Best Short Story awards, and her screenplay on
Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin has been optioned.
Her website is: www.hbonnerbooks.com
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Dolphin Papers
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The Laid Daughter
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Cry Dance
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First Love Last
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Judith Horstman
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Judith Horstman
Judith Horstman is an award winning writer specializing in science and health.
She has been a Washington correspondent, journalism professor and Fulbright
scholar and been published (and self-promoted) in just about every medium from
newspapers to the internet.
She is the author of seven books including The
Scientific American Healthy Aging Brain, for which she wheedled a jacket blurb
from Dr. Oz and which was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best
guides to later life for 2012. A popular public speaker and workshop leader,
Judith has taught most recently at Book Passage, the Sacramento Library I
Street Press, and in UC Davis writing classes.
Her website is: www.judithhorstman.com
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Day in the
Life
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Brave New
Brain
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Love Sex and the Brain
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Healthy Aging Brain
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Gillian Bagwell
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Gillian Bagwell
Gillian Bagwell began her professional life in theatre and united her life-long love of books, British history, and theatre to write her first novel, The Darling Strumpet, based on the life of Nell Gwynn. It was a 2012 RWA RITA finalist for Best First Book. Her second novel, The September Queen, is the first fictional account of the story of Jane Lane, who risked her life to help the young Charles II escape after the Battle of Worcester. Gillian's third novel, Venus in Winter, based on the first forty years of the life of the formidable four-times widowed Tudor dynast Bess of Hardwick, will be released in July 2013.
Visit Gillian's website, www.gillianbagwell.com, for further information about her books and upcoming events, and links to her blogs, articles, and videos of sites in Nell Gwynn's London.
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Indigo Moor
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Indigo Moor
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Indigo Moor is a poet, author, and playwright. His second book, Through the Stonecutter’s Window was selected for the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize.
His first book Tap-Root was published in 2007 as part of Main Street Rag’s
Editor’s Select Poetry Series. He is a 2003 recipient of Cave Canem’s Writing fellowship,
former vice president of the Sacramento Poetry Center, and former editor for the Tule Review.
He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2008 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize.
Other honors include: finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Crab Orchard First Book Prize, Saturnalia First Book Award, Naomi Long Madgett Book Award, and WordWorks Poetry Prize. He has received scholarships to the Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg Russia, the 2006 Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program, the Indiana University Writer’s Conference, and the Napa Valley Writer’s Conference Review.
Indigo's short stories and poetry have appeared in the Arkansas Review, Xavier Review, LA Review,
Mochila Review, Boston University’s The Comment, the Pushcart Prize
nominated Out of the Blue Artists Unite, Poetry Now,
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry, Cave Canem Anthologies VIII and IX,
The Ringing Ear, the NCPS 2006 Anthology, Blue Moon Literary & Arts Review,
Breathe 101: Contemporary Odes, and Gathering Ground.
He was recently the featured artist for the Suisun Valley Review.
Indigo is a graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists and
teaches residencies and workshops across the country and is enrolled in the
Stonecoast MFA program for the University of Southern Maine where he is studying Poetry, Fiction, and Playwriting.
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Tap-Root
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Through the Stonecutter's Window
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Amy Smith
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Amy Smith
Amy Elizabeth Smith, originally from Pennsylvania, teaches creative and
professional writing at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. Her
recent memoir, All Roads Lead to Austen: A Yearlong Journey with Jane, recounts
a year traveling in six Latin American countries learning Spanish and holding
reading groups on Jane Austen; it was praised by Booklist, Publishers Weekly,
and Kirkus. You can visit her website at allroadsleadtoausten.com.
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All Roads Lead to Austen
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