http://sonomalibrary.org/community/authors.xml Sonoma County Library local authors site feed of author additions. http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bob_hornback Bob Hornback is a professional horticulturist and horticultural historian, and the co-owner of Muchas Grasses Nursery in Santa Rosa. He teaches horticulture at Merritt College in Oakland and is an active member of the Western Sonoma County Historical Society. Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 2013-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jorinda_gravenstein Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 2013-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=carol_eisenpresser Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 2013-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rick_flinders Rick Flinders, M.D. Adult Medicine Coordinator, has been on the Santa Rosa faculty since completion of his training here in 1980. He has recently finished the last year as interim program director, was inpatient director from 1985-93, and is now chief of the adult medicine service where he teaches "family medicine in the hospital." He is founder and director of the RISE Program and author of The RISE Response: Illness, Wellness, and Spirituality. He spent a year in Japan as visiting professor, still believes in the dharma of medicine and practices Zen "most of the time". Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 2013-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sandy_baker Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700 2013-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=donald_mudgway Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joan_price Author and speaker Joan Price calls herself an "advocate for ageless sexuality." She has been called other things by the media: "senior sexpert," "the beautiful face of senior sex," and—her favorite—"wrinkly sex kitten." Visit Joan's zesty, award-winning blog about sex and aging at www.NakedAtOurAge.com. How did Joan start writing and speaking about senior sex? For fifteen years, Joan was a widely published health and fitness writer. Then at 57, after decades of single life, she fell deeply in love with artist Robert Rice, who was then 64. Their love affair was profound, joyful, and extremely spicy. Their passion, in contrast to society's view of older people as sexless, led Joan at age 61 to write Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty (Seal Press, 2006) to celebrate the delights of older-life sexuality. Robert and Joan married after five years together and had two more years together before Robert died of cancer in 2008. His last request to Joan was "Promise me you'll keep doing your work." Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christopher_osullivan Chris O'Sullivan received his BA from UC Berkeley and his MA and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, University of London. He was recently a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of Jordan and is a 2011 recipient of USF's distinguished teaching award. He is the author of several books including Colin Powell (2010), The United Nations (2005), and Sumner Welles (2008) which received the American Historical Association's Gutenberg Prize and was selected as a Council of Learned Societies Humanities Book. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=elda_del_bino_willitts Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=iris_dunkle Iris Jamahl Dunkle’s debut poetry collection, Gold Passage was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks, The Flying Trolley and Inheritance, were published by Finishing Line Press in 2013 and 2010. Dunkle currently teaches writing and literature at Sonoma State University, and Napa Valley College. She received her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University. She is a native of Sonoma County and currently lives with her family in Sebastopol. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=geoffrey_s_harris Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=patricia_lynn_henley Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lavinia_hightower Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=janine_canan Janine Canan is the author of 20 books including the award-winning anthologies, Messages from Amma and She Rises like the Sun; acclaimed translations of Francis Jammes and Else Lasker-Schüler; illustrated storybooks, Journeys with Justine and Walk Now in Beauty; a collection of essays, Goddesses Goddesses; and poetry including NEA grant-recipient Of Your Seed and, most recently, Ardor: Poems of Life. Janine lives in California’s Valley of the Moon, graduated from Stanford cum laude and NYU School of Medicine, and is a psychiatrist and consultant for Indian humanitarian Mata Amritanandamayi. Please visit her at JanineCanan.com Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=clarence_jonk Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jill_koenigsdorf Jill Koenigsdorf began writing at the age of ten and has never looked back. Her story “Browsers and Grazers” was published in the Chautauqua Review and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Jill’s stories have been published in ZYZZYVA, Tin House, The Southwest Review, and American Short Fiction. Her non-fiction pieces have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Sunset Magazine, The New Mexican, and New Mexico Magazine. Jill also received the McGinnis Award and a Peregrine Prize. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ken_kolsbun Ken Kolsbun, self-described Jack-of-all trades, is a photographer, writer, historian, peace activist, game inventor, landscape architect, horticulturalist, baseball fan, mail-order catalog designer, husband and father. He continues to be active in the peace movement and is an authority of the peace symbol. Ken has invented numerous boardgames based on cooperative play, including their 1978 "classic" game Save the Whales. Ken and his wife Jann live in Forestville, California, 60 miles North of San Francisco. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christopher_riebli Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marylu_downing Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kate_douglas Some people just seem to know they are meant to write, but it can still take a while to figure out exactly what their career will entail. Kate Douglas started out writing radio copy for a country western radio station in 1972, wrote and illustrated an educational cartoon strip for the American Mosquito Control Association for a number of years, was a newspaper reporter for a small town weekly where she covered everything from high school sports to drug busts, and then, in the mid-1980s, decided to write her first romance. Many submissions and rejections followed.In 1998, she published with a small ebook publisher before anyone knew what an ebook was, but it wasn't until 2005, a full twenty years after finishing that first romance, that she signed with a New York publisher. In January 2006, Kensington Publishing launched their Aphrodisia imprint of erotic romance with Kate's Wolf Tales, a sexy paranormal series about a lost race of shapeshifters. Kate has continued on as the imprint's lead author, with twenty-one novels and novellas in the full Wolf Tales series. She also has a series with Kensington's Zebra imprint, DemonSlayers, and has just completed her latest Aphrodisia series, Dream Catchers, which opened with the NightShift anthology and her novella, Dream Catcher, followed by the novels Dream Bound and Dream Unchained. Her next series, Spirit Wild, debuts April 30, 2013 with Dark Wolf. This is a spin-off series that takes place in the Chanku world readers first met in Wolf Tales. Characters are the grown children of the first Chanku.<br><br>Kate and her husband of over forty years have two adult children and six grandchildren. They live in the small town of Healdsburg, California, in the heart of the beautiful Sonoma County wine country. Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=faith_morgan Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ray_morgan Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ann_erickson Ann Erickson was born in Maryland in 1943, grew up in the Midwest, graduated from Swarthmore College, lived in Chicago, the Caribbean, West Afrrica, Florica and in the San Francisco Bay area. Since 1977, Ann has lived on the Russian River in Sonoma County.<p>Ann's writing has appeared in more than a hundred small press magazines and anthologies. Her life story appeared in Gale Research's Contemporary Authors autobiography series. She was editor of tight magazine, an independent, national experimental literary quarterly, from 1989 throuigh 2000. Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jody_elizabeth_gehrman Jody Gehrman is a pagan at heart. She is a native of Northern California -- she grew up in Healdsburg, California -- where real witches thrive, and she has had the pleasure of knowing a few. She is also the author of seven novels and numerous award-winning plays. Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft is her most recent Young Adult novel. Her other Young Adult novels include Babe in Boyland, Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty, and Triple Shot Bettys in Love, (Penguin's Dial Books). Babe in Boyland has recently been optioned by the Disney Channel and won the International Reading Association's Teen Choice Award. Her adult novels are Notes from the Backseat, Tart, and Summer in the Land of Skin (Red Dress Ink). Her plays have been produced in Ashland, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and L.A. She and her partner David Wolf won the New Generation Playwrights Award for their one-act, Jake Savage, Jungle P.I. She is a professor of English at Mendocino College, where she can be found grading papers when she's not experimenting with spells. Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ellen_galford Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michael_grace Fri, 01 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-02-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tom_merritt Tom Merritt is the host of Tech News Today on the TWiT network. He also hosts several other podcasts. Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800 2013-01-25T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joelle_b_burnette Joelle Burnette has been a writer for a New York Times daily newspaper in Northern California after having written for other newspapers. Prior to having received her master’s in journalism/communications from Stanford University, her writing experience extends to her work in television news in San Francisco, congressional offices on Capitol Hill and California, and media relations on presidential and other regional political campaigns.<br>When she isn’t writing, Burnette enjoys camping, traveling, photography, painting, swimming and spending time with her family. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=chester_aaron Born in Butler, Pennsylvania, to Albert and Celia (Charleson) Aaron, he attended the Butler Senior High School, UCLA, and San Francisco State University. In addition to his writing, he has worked as a steel worker, an X-ray technician, a college professor, and a garlic farmer. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=nancy_gibbs_richard Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=frances_caballo Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=emily_marks Emily Marks enjoys making art books, writing articles and books, knitting, and raising vegetables. She lives in Sonoma, CA, for two years. Before that she lived near Berkeley, CA. She is married and has two grown sons. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=patricia_driscoll Patricia Driscoll was born in Westport, Conn. She worked for many years as a probation officer for the San Francisco Probation Department. She retired in 2003 and looked forward to re-kindling her passion for painting and drawing. Instead, she wrote a mystery. “Shedding Light On Murder, a traditional mystery set in Cape Cod, was released January, 2012 by Five Star/Gale Cengage. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=martha_adelle_dunlop Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=laura_mchale_holland I’m the founder of indie publishing company Wordforest and author of Reversible Skirt, a childhood memoir that won a silver medal in the 2011 Readers Favorite book awards. I’m also an editor for a trade magazine that covers the bankcard processing beat, a dreamer, mother, stepmother, wife, sister, storyteller, caretaker for two goofy, pint-sized dogs, and an overall happy, but always stressed woman who thinks way too much about what she weighs. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_hayward David runs a small writing and editing business in Healdsburg, California, where he does not grow pot or have a cat. His poetry has won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Harper’s and other magazines. He received an MFA in poetry from UC Irvine during the 20th century. Heads You Lose is David’s first published fiction. He’s now working on a novel of his own, about a family of gamblers. It will probably be called Hollow Leg, though Lisa continues to refer to it as The Mellman Files. If it gets published, he expects his name on the cover to be huge. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=stephen_pastis Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=winnie_e_fitzpatrick A 44-year-resident of Kenwood, poetess and short story writer Winnie Fitzpatrick died in March 2008. A founder and long-time president of Poets of the Vineyard, she was winner of many poetry awards and encouraged several writers’ groups, including Pen Women and the Redwood Writers Club. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jacqueline_harmon_butler Jacqueline Harmon Butler saw the movie "An American in Paris" at an impressionable age and dreamed of being an artist there. Instead she spent her formative years hanging out in San Francisco’s North Beach with the Beat Generation, wearing a black beret, writing stories and painting. It wasn’t until she had married, divorced, and raised two children that she visited Paris. It was love at first sight. She began to write about her travels and compiled copious files of stories and data after that first trip on 1979. In 1996, she decided to investigate the possibilities of becoming a travel writer and enrolled in a weekend travel writing conference. She won the second place writing award and her career was launched. Jacqueline’s writing can be found in numerous newspapers, magazines and ezines all across the USA, Canada and Europe, including the Miami Herald, New Orleans Times Picayune, Dallas Morning News, Kansas City Star, San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, La Sicilia, La Nazione and Il Tirreno. She is a contributing editor to the anthology, Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, (Globe Pequot Press, April 2002) which won the North American Travel Journalists Association award for best travel book of 2002. She is the author of The Travel Writer's Handbook, (Surrey Books). In March 2010, Jacqueline published her memoir, "Taking a Chance on Love," as an e-book and print on demand with Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com Excerpt: "Facing middle age I thought my love life was over – until I traveled to Italy and was pursued and seduced by a younger man, much to the dismay of my adult children and friends. From Lucca to San Francisco to the hill towns of Tuscany, our romance sizzles with excitement and drama." A major update of the "7th Edition of the Travel Writer's Handbook," (Surrey Books) was published April 2012. She is currently working on another novel, One Last Trip to Paris. This is the story of Julie Taylor, 50 years old, seemingly has it all, looks, brains and style, and hugely successful in the high tech world. But suddenly her world changes when an inoperable brain aneurysm gives her only six months to live. With no family, and no emotional attachments, she liquidates her assets takes her twenty two million dollars and moves from San Francisco to Paris to begin living the life she never had. Unexpected love turns her world upside down and twists and turns of fate send her on a roller coaster ride of a lifetime. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jessica_denham Jessica Denham lives in Windsor with her husband, her parrot, and a rat terrier. "Iceland By Bus and Backpack" is her first book. She is currently working on a novel. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=francis_e_weller Francis Weller has been working with the emotional, creative and spiritual life of men and women for thirty years. He is a community builder, teacher and psychotherapist in Northern California. He is the founder/director of WisdomBridge. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=karuna_gerstein Karuna is committed to meeting each person where they are on their journey, offering unconditional kindness that fosters connections to each other, ourselves and the mysteries of life, however that mystery is defined by each person. Karuna holds degrees from Berkeley City College, California State University-Hayward, and the Chaplaincy Institute for the Arts and Interfaith Ministries. Following her ordination in 2003, Karuna's ministry has included serving elders as the Director of Senior Services for Petaluma People Services Center, as a chaplain for the community and for Hospice of Napa, and as the Executive Director for the Jewish Community Free Clinic. Karuna has offered workshops in end-of-life preparation, aging, and various spiritual practices. Karuna is the author of Spirituality of Aging: Stirring the Spirit, a chapter in the nationally recognized book, Awakening to Aging: Glimpsing the Gifts of Aging edited by Myrtle Heery and Gregg Richardson. Karuna is a clergy in good standing with The Interfaith Congregation for Creative and Healing Ministries. She is a member of Spiritual Directors International, the National Association of Social Workers and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Karuna is also a Provider of Triple P - Positive Parenting Program® and a certified facilitator of Girls Circle. Karuna also enjoys exploring our natural surroundings, often through the lens of a camera. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=roy_tennant Roy Tennant is a Senior Program Officer for OCLC Research, where he manages projects relating to technology, infrastructure, and standards. Previous employers include the California Digital Library and the University of California, Berkeley.<br>Roy is the creator and owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. <br>His books include "Technology in Libraries: Essays in Honor of Anne Grodzins Lipow" (2008), "Managing the Digital Library" (2004), "XML in Libraries" (2002), "Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial" (1996), and "Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook" (1993). Roy wrote a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal for a decade, where he still blogs, and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association's LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education. <br>Roy is also a commercial whitewater river guide, treehouse builder, (the fourth in his backyard in the Sonoma Valley), husband, and the father of grown twin daughters now in college. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-12-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=andy_weisskoff Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=osanna_m_kazezian_rosa Osanna Kazezian Rosa is the author of the children’s non fiction picture book series entitled “Bella Bear" which includes “ Bella Bear picking Berries,'” and “Bella Bear, I am a Big Sister.” Osanna also published an instructional base unit for age group three to six; “The Art of Hand-Built Pottery; One Child’s Creativity.” Osanna is also accomplished in pottery making. Her hand-built ceramic pieces were recognized and exhibited in Lake Tahoe, Santa Monica and at Sonoma State University. Her art pieces may be viewed by visiting www.artpotentials.org. Osanna’s passion for creativity is unlimited. Osanna also makes a confectionery called Panforte Di Sonoma. (www.panfortedisonoma.com) Osanna has a BA in History and Minor in Philosophy from UCLA, an MA in Education/Curriculum Teaching & Learning from Sonoma State University and Montessori Preschool/Kindergarten (3-6) teaching credentials. She lives in Sonoma County, California. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sharon_hamilton Sharon Hamilton loves all things paranormal: Angels, Dark Angels, Watchers, Guardians, Upogenie and Vampires. She also has developed a series of hot romantic suspense Navy SEAL stories. Her characters follow a spicy road to redemption through passion and true love—not exactly what they taught you in Sunday School! Sharon is represented by agent Jill Marsal, and has finaled in several erotic, contemporary, paranormal and single title contests over the past three years. She regularly participates in four RWA and California Writer chapters, and two blogs. An avid organic vegetable and flower gardener, Sharon and her husband live in the Wine Country in Northern California, where most of her stories take place. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christina_olds Christina Olds was born in Manhattan, NY on January 5, 1952 and bounced around the world with her USAF fighter pilot father Robin Olds and Hollywood actress mother Ella Raines. Raised mostly in Washington D.C., England and Colorado, she graduated from Vassar College with a BA in English/Creative Writing in 1974 and spent 25 years living in Marin County where she raised her daughter Jennifer Olds Newman (now a costume designer in Los Angeles). In 2001 Christina moved to Colorado to be near her aging father, who had retired from the air force as a brigadier general in 1973. She worked for Vail Resorts for six years. While caring for her father during his terminal illness in 2007, Christina promised to complete his half-written memoirs from his gathered notes. Robin Olds passed away June 14, 2007. She spent the next two years researching and writing the book, including interviewing veterans who flew with her father in WWI and Vietnam. FIGHTER PILOT; THE MEMOIRS OF LEGENDARY ACE ROBIN OLDS was published April 13, 2010 by St. Martin's Press and has been heralded as an exceptionally literary and lyrical biography/memoir. This is her first book. Christina moved back “home” to California in July 2011, this time choosing Sonoma County over Marin. She currently lives in Santa Rosa and works for the Chamber of Commerce. She travels to speak to aviation museums and air shows around the country. The Discovery Channel is producing a one-hour documentary titled “Air Ace” on the life of Robin Olds, to be aired early spring 2013. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_kaye John Kaye (born August 31, 1941) is an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright. His feature credits as a screenwriter include American Hot Wax, Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins and Where the Buffalo Roam. He also directed the feature film Forever Lulu, starring Melanie Griffith and Patrick Swayze. A graduate of U.C. Berkeley, Kaye was producer and writer of The Lohman and Barkley Show, a late-nite live, 90 minute, satirical show that ran for a year on KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles in 1971. A precursor to Saturday Night Live, Kaye gave Barry Levinson, Craig T. Nelson, John Amos, and McClean Stevenson their first jobs in the entertainment business. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=amanda_mctigue Amanda McTigue hails from a long line of talkers. Her daddy’s people were immigrant Irish Catholics who wound up stateside in the Appalachian coal-mining country of West Virginia. Her mother’s people were Presbyterian preachers from the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. An author, teacher, and stage director, Amanda’s children’s books and companion CDs are on bookstore shelves. Her written works for the theater have been seen on stages ranging from community playhouses to the likes of Juilliard, Carnegie Hall and the Minnesota Opera. Going to Solace is her first novel. You can keep up with her doings at www.amandamctigue.com. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jj_wilson Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dan_land Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ida_rae_egli The descendant of Gold Rush immigrants, Ida Rae Egli has always enjoyed the comfort that is California - except when traveling the world. The editor of No Rooms of Their Own: Women Writers of Early California, 1848-1869, and Women of the Gold Rush: "The New Penelope" and Other Stories (Heyday Books, Berkeley), and numerous short stories and poetry, she teaches Creative Writing for Santa Rosa Junior College and writes at her home on the Sonoma coast. Married to a Greek - born during World War II on the island of Rhodes - who is a European historian, she considers Greece her second home. She has two marvelous children. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=julia_park_tracey Julia Park Tracey is an award-winning journalist, blogger, author and editor. Her current project is <a href="http://www.thedorisdiaries.com">The Doris Diaries</a>, compiling and transcribing her late aunt's journals. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=yolanda_martinez Yoland V. Martinez, M.A. in School Leadership, taught high school language arts in Spanish and English for 22 years. Her writings have been published in newspapers and books. She authored two bilingual poetry books: "Poemas Cotidianos de una Latina -- Everyday Poems of a Latin Woman," and "La Vida en Versos--Life in Verses." She lives in Santa Rosa, California. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mike_downs I began my working career, and love of sports cars, at age 10. I started the voyage sweeping floors at a foreign car parts store in Northern Virginia. At 16, I was a partner in a good little foreign car repair shop in Falls Church Virginia.It was there a few years later I met Bob Tullius from Group44. I did some work on his cars and later joined his famous team as a racing driver.During my tenure with Group 44, the immaculately prepared cars allowed me to win many races and a National Championship. I moved to the Mecca of American racing in California to race the new Titan Formula Ford for their West Coast distributor. I moved from there to race for BRE in the Datsun Trans Am car. I drove for the Porsche of America Racing Team in the big three American endurance events, Daytona, Sebring, and Watkins Glen. In the mid seventies I headed up Silverstone Enterprises to prepare and drive the Porsche Carreras for IMSA racing, culminating in a class win at the Daytona 24 hour race. In the late seventies I moved back to the grandeur of California to open Downs Engineering. During the next twenty odd years I raced Formula Atlantic, Trans Am and IMSA GTO. In the new century I won a championship driving my own designed and built Sports Racing Car. I've worked with the film industry and developed a remote camera mount for car chases and commercials. I've met some interesting blokes here, could be the makings of some future novels. Currently the shop builds race cars from the ground up. We do restorations on vintage race cars, and design and build specialty cars. The shop is busy building racing engines, and the Hayabusa engine parts we develop. I have written four novels so far dealing with early American racing in the 1920s and 30s.Tales of fabulous cars, Nazi intrigue, and lovely ladies keep me poking at the keyboard, and hopefully entertaining my readers. I have tons of ideas for future novels and am bursting to get them in ink. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=eloisa_ramos Eloisa C. Ramos was born in 1960 in Chamacuaro, a small rural farming community in central Mexico. She came to Northern California at the age of 7 and graduated in 1983 from Stanford University with a BA in Sociology. In 2002 it became clear to Eloisa that traditional Western medicine offered no permanent solution for two of her children with asthma and substance sensitivities (environmental illness). Something deep within her said, "There must be another way." In finding that "other way", she discovered many wonderful alternative healing aids of which EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is her favorite. She received EFT-CC and EFT-ADV certificates of completion in EFT from Dr. Pat Carrington; Academic Certification from Gary Craig, EFTCert-I and EFTCert-II; upon Gary’s retirement in 2010 she grandfathered her EFTCert-II with EFT Universe and Dawson Church as an EFT Expert Practitioner-2; and completed her EFT Master Certification with Dr. Silvia Hartman at the AMT (Association for Meridian and Energy Therapies). Prior to learning EFT, she worked with Reiki, Bach Flowers, Natural Healing (NH), Chi Gung and Tai Chi. She is also an avid student of A Course in Miracles and has combined her learning with her EFT practice and personal insights into her book: Beyond Self-Esteem: Discovering Your Boundless Self-worth. She has lived in Sonoma County since 1969, is married and has four children. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gil_mansergh Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alan_linsley Alan Linsley is a writer of both prose and poetry, as well as an artist and teacher. He lives in a small Northern California town where he is raising the last of his five children as a single father. He teaches Poetry, U.S. Government/History and Philosophy in a small rural alternative high school. He is also active in the therapeutic community where he practices a form of bodywork that he describes as holding as non-doing, by which his clients can achieve a level of deep stillness. Here they can remember the integrity that resides within their body as health. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=cirak_tesfazghi Cirak Tesfazgi is a 2002 graduate of Santa Rosa high School. He is a member of Sonoma County’s Eritrean community, and a poet. Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-10-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lillian_judd Lillian Judd was born in Czechoslovakia and grew up during the onset of World War II. As a teenager, she was taken to the ghetto in her hometown and then to the Auschwitz death camp. Near the end of the war, she was forced to participate in the death marches before her liberation and emigration to America. She has lived in Santa Rosa for many years and is an active member of Congregation Beth Ami, a local synagogue and community center. Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dennis_l_judd Dennis L. Judd is the son of Holocaust survivors Lillian and Emil Judd. He was born in the San Fernando Valley and currently lives in Sonoma County, Calif. Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=arlene_miller Arlene Miller is the author of The Best Little Grammar Book Ever and Correct Me If I'm Wrong. The self-proclaimed Grammar Diva is the president of bigwords101, which publishes grammar books and present grammar classes, workshops, and presentations. Originally, from Boston, Arlene currently lives in Petaluma, where she also teaches school. Her experience includes newspaper reporting and editing, technical writing and editing, and freelance editing. Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=elizabeth_herron Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=a_v_walters A.V. Walters was born in Canada, to American parents. (And after thirty years in California, she no longer says 'eh' at the end of her sentences.) Several years ago she moved to a chicken farm in Sonoma County, began writing and is an advocate of "bucket farming." Her next book, The Gift of Guylaine Claire, a nod to her Canadian roots, will be released this winter by Two Rock Press. Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=william_babula William (Bill) Babula is a Shakespeare scholar, mystery writer and playwright. He is currently Dean of Arts and Humanities at Sonoma State University. Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dewey_watson Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=anna_corba Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lynda_hopkins Lynda Hopkins runs Foggy River Farm with her husband in Healdsburg, CA. was born and raised in suburban San Diego, then moved north to study Earth Systems and Creative Writing at Stanford University, where she graduate with a BS, a BA, and an MS in Environmental Science Communications. After graduating, she traveled around New Zealand in a campervan with her boyfriend, working on homesteads, market farms, and a dairy. Late one night, the delusional duo decided to start a farm of their own. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=louis_guglielmino An ordinary citizen born in San Francisco, California, in 1921, Louis Guglielmino was educated at the University of San Francisco, where he majored in business administration and minored in philosophy. His education was interrupted by World War II. He was commissioned and served for four years in the air-defense artillery. Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lee_hector Dr. Hector Lee (1908-1992) came from Chico State University to Sonoma State University at its inception. He was a nationally known authority on western folklore and a true teller of tall tales. Dr. Lee's papers are in the Sonoma State University Special Collections and document Dr. Lee’s involvement with the folklore community at large and his activities in recording the folklore of Sonoma, Marin, Mendocino, and Lake counties.  Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=matt_greaney Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jeanne_simons Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=william_chapman_shipley Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lindsey_stokes Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joe_pelanconi Joe Pelanconi is a retired high school principal living in Northern California, married to and humbled by a semi-sarcastic wife of 32 years. He never wanted to be a principal, but a certain lack of talent was the only glitch on his road to Cooperstown. For years, Joe pretended he was named after Joe Dimaggio, when in fact he was given the name of his late grandfather, an Italian immigrant who never saw a baseball game and had the misforturne of being asphyxiated in a wine barrel during Prohibition. Joe's wife insists there is a message there. Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_mckenzie Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=judy_mathieson Judy Mathieson became interested in quilt making in 1973 while completing a BS degree in Home Economics (Textiles and Clothing) at California State University, Northridge. Since 1983 she has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the United States and in Canada, Japan, Australia, Scotland, New Zealand and England. Her work has won numerous prizes at Houston Quilt Festival, Pacific International Quilt Festival, Quilt National, Visions, NQA, and many other shows. .Judy and her husband Jack lived for 30 years in the Los Angeles Area, but moved in 1996 to Sebastopol, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Jack is a retired systems manager. They have two grown sons, one grandchild and three very important border collie dogs. Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=pat_nolan Pat Nolan is the author of numerous collections of poetry. On The Road To Las Cruces is his first published novel. He lives in Northern California. Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gay_bishop_brorstrom Gay Bishop Brorstrom is actively involved at two local Audubon Preserves. She is an avid birder, gardener and writer. She has been published in the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine and an anthology, After Words. She lives in Sebastopol, Calif. Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_w_florence Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=eknath_easwaran Eknath Easwaran (December 17, 1910 - October 26, 1999) was a spiritual teacher, an author of books on meditation and ways to lead a fulfilling life, as well as a translator and interpreter of Indian literature. In 1961 Easwaran founded the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation and Nilgiri Press, based in northern California. Nilgiri Press publishes over two dozen books he authored. Eknath Easwaran was influenced by Gandhi, whom Easwaran met when he was a young man. Easwaran developed a method of meditation -- silent repetition in the mind of memorized inspirational passages from the world's great religions -- which later came to be known as Passage Meditation Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jean_saylor_doppenberg Jean Saylor Doppenberg is author of "Food Lovers' Guide to Napa Valley," "Food Lovers' Guide to Sonoma," and "Insiders' Guide to California's Wine Country." Freelance writer and editor. she writes about "the region where I live, known around the globe as California Wine Country, and offer practical advice about visiting and making the most of your time here." Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=wiley_jadavega Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ernest_gallo Ernest Gallo (March 18, 1909 – March 6, 2007) was the American co-founder of the E & J Gallo Winery. He was ranked 297th on the 2006 Forbes 400 list of billionaires. With his brother they founded the E.&J. Gallo Winery in 1933, at the end of Prohibition, using $5,900 in borrowed cash. By the time of his death in 2007, Gallo sold one of every four bottles of wine that Americans drank. Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mara_williams My main focus has been Chronic Lyme disease and the many co-infections that surround it. It was a stunning moment when I realized my own daughter was very sick and had been for awhile. What our family has endured when it becomes necessary to interact with the current health care system is a horror story. It is this experience that compelled me to write Nature's Dirty Needle. Her story and the others in this book must be told. Hopefully this will lead to greater awareness of this worldwide issue. Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_van_der_zee John van der Zee is the author of a dozen books, including the best seller The Gate: The True Story of the Design and Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Town & Country and salon.com. He lives in San Francisco and in Healdsburg, California. Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mary_lynn_archibald Mary Lynn is a prolific writer; avid reader; entertaining speaker, and mother of two grown children. She is that rarest of creatures, a Native Californian, (born in the tiny town of Soquel, just outside Santa Cruz), and her varied background includes such exotic professions as switchboard operator; art and English teacher; ballerina; interior designer; sales clerk; herb grower, fashion model, and chorus girl (not necessarily in that order). Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=paula_koneazny Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=paul_r_ehrlich Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mei_nakano Mei T. Nakano is a former instructor of English, writer, editor and publisher. Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=doug_stout Doug Stout, (24 Sep 1923 - 31 Jul 2007), native of Fresno, taught at San Francisco State and then retired to Healdsburg in 1976. He championed the literary arts, helping form writers groups, writing and publishing poetry and becoming Healdsburg's first Literary Laureate. For decades he brought his box of local authors' books to the Healdsburg Farmers Market. His sign "Local Literary Produce" heralds the Stout Collection of local authors in Healdsburg Library. Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=william_heintz William F. Heintz was a historian who lived most of his adult life in Sonoma. Heintz wrote two detailed books on Napa, Wine Country: A History of Napa Valley, The Early Years 1838-1920 and California’s Napa Valley, One Hundred Sixty Years of Winemaking. As an old-school academic, Heintz studied the events that shaped California wine, particularly Napa Valley. Through his three decades of research and writings, Heintz made a great contribution to piecing together the people who started winemaking in Napa through its formative years from Prohibition to the 1970s and 1980s wine boom. Heintz was known as a stickler for facts, and liked rummaging through old newspapers, magazines and reports that were pertinent to wine history. "Libraries are the life-blood of historians," he once wrote. He was regarded as a historical detective for his ability to search out and remember obscure details other researchers did not find. He wrote nearly 90 research reports and conducted hundreds of oral history interviews with people in the wine business. A native of Rudyard, Mt., Heintz began his college work toward a degree in journalism in Helena, Montana, but completed his bachelor’s degree at San Francisco State University. At Sonoma State University, he attained his master’s degree in history and was soon taking on commissions to write histories for wineries all over California. Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_fritscher Jack Fritscher b. 1939 is a longtime Sonoma County resident and author of hundreds of GLBT magazine articles, short stories, and twenty books of nonfiction and fiction, including the memoir of his lover "Mapplethorpe: Assault with a Deadly Camera," the history "Gay San Francisco," the novel "What They Did to the Kid: Confessions of an Altar Boy," and the award-winning "Some Dance to Remember: A Memoir-Novel of San Francisco 1970-1982." Much of the plot and action in "Some Dance" takes place in Sonoma County. He lives in Sebastopol. Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kendall_f_haven Only West Point graduate to ever become a professional storyteller, Haven also holds a Masters Degree in Oceanography and spent eight years as a Senior Research Scientist for the Department of Energy before finding his true passion for storytelling and a very different kind of “truth.” Haven has authored 27 books and dozens of articles with over 1,000,000 words in print. His recent major work,STORY PROOF: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story, has unleashed a revolution in understanding the role of story in human communications and joins his previous quartet of award-winning breakthrough practical guides to using, writing, teaching, and telling—all using the power inherent in the structure of effective stories. Haven has also written 18 collections of original, themed, historically and factually accurate stories. These collections use the power of story to bring science (science mysteries, science discoveries and inventions, earth science, ocean science, ecosystems, etc.) and history (Revolutionary War, Civil War, Women in American history, etc.) to vivid and compelling life for young readers. Haven has also published five audio storytelling tapes and created a three-hour high adventure radio drama style mini-series for National Public Radio on the effects of watching television that has won five major national awards. Haven’s recent awards include the only nine-time winner of the Storytelling World Silver Award for best Story Anthology, the 1993 International Festival Association Silver Award for best Educational Program at a Major National Festival, the 1992 Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Award for best Children’s Public Radio Production, and the 1991 Award for Excellence in California Education. Haven has twice been designated an American Library Association “Notable Recording Artist,” and is the only storyteller in America with three entries in the American Library Association’s "Best of the Best for Children." Haven is a former member of the Board of Directors for the National Storytelling Association, is a member of the Educational Advisory Committee of the National Storytelling Association, and was the founder and Chair of the International Whole Language Umbrella Storytelling Interest Group. He served as a co-director of the Sonoma Storytelling Festival, past four-year Chair of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, and founder of Storytelling Festivals in Las Vegas, NV, and Boise, ID. Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=charles_rubin Author, public speaker, president of the Inner Light Foundation, director of Charles Rubin Advertising. Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=richard_rothlin Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_a_mcdougall John A. McDougall, M.D., is an American physician and author whose philosophy is that degenerative disease can be prevented and treated with a plant-based diet of whole, unprocessed, low-fat foods, especially starches such as potatoes, rice, and beans, and which excludes all animal foods (except honey) and added vegetable oils. Between 1973 and 1976, McDougall worked as a medical doctor at the Hamakua Sugar Plantation on Hawaii Island. It was during this time that he first became aware of the link between his patients' dietary choice and their health. Between 1986 and 2002, he launched a vegetarian dietary program at St. Helena Hospital in Napa Valley, California. Between 1999 and 2001, he also ran his dietary program for the Blue Cross Blue Shield in Minneapolis. In 2002 he began the McDougall Program at the Flamingo Resort in Santa Rosa, California. Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=nyree_belleville Nyree Belleville is a romance novelist living in Sonoma, who publishes spicy romances under the name Bella Andre. She majored in economics at Stanford and was a singer in her 20s, but after that career died, turned to writing. She also writes young-adult novels under the author name, <a href="http://www.lucykevin.com/"">Lucy Kevin</a>. Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ruth_allen Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=francis_rico Francis Rico combines ancient and modern shamanic wisdom with a gift of sight to assist his clients, students and fellow adventurers in awakening to the truth of their magnificence. A musician and author, Rico has traveled extensively to the sacred sites of Peru, Mexico and the American Southwest, and has studied with the elders of many indigenous traditions. His home lies in Northern California, where he shares the beauty of the wild coastal mesas, cliffs, and ocean in support of his shamanic counseling and healing practices. Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-09-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=frank_baumgardner After a dual career as a high school science and history teacher, Frank Baumgardner worked as a nurse and "as a practical nurse I finally had enough time to return to research. The mysteries of California history, like what happened to the region's Indians during the 1850s and 60- forced onto a journey that involved the federal government's policies,and the realities on the frontier, genocide and unplanned murders have always fascinated me. With the support of my wife Jeannette starting in about 1998 I began digging through archives, newspapers, letters, diaries-the records left by real settlers, Army personnel and Indians. As anyone who has done such work in the past will tell you, one fact or story led to another, to another, and so on." Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=renee_ho Renee Ho is passionate about changing the world by helping others be more happy and do what they are passionate about through the power of friendships.Renee was born and raised in Northern California. She lived and went to school in Wyoming for five years where she was a division one soccer player for the University of Wyoming. Renee got a dual major in regular and special education. She learned Spanish while teaching at public and private schools in Costa Rica and Guatemala. In her two years living in Maui, Renee taught at a public school as the kindergarten and severe and profound special education teacher. She also taught for two years at a non-profit autism school while living in Georgia. In this time she was the early intervention teacher, lead teacher and school director. She then taught at an autism and behavior specialty school in California for two years as a middle school teacher. Renee has begun an organization called Amistad, which means friendship in Spanish. Amistad’s objective is to help Latina women in her community live a life full of passion and happiness through friendships. In Renee’s spare time she enjoys exercising, learning information that can help her grow, traveling and spending time with her husband, daughter, family and friends. Renee believes and teaches that friendship with oneself and others is a powerful tool which can help be a part of bettering our world. Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=teri_sloat Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=simone_wilson Simone Wilson: Freelance writer Simone Wilson likes to hike and kayak in the West County and occasionally pauses to write a book about local history. She is the author of a county history called Sonoma County — the River of Time and has also written books about Petaluma, Santa Rosa and the Russian River. She lives in Rohnert Park with her husband Creighton Bell and their dog, Chipper-Shredder. Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=toni_wilkes Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=chris_babcock Chris Babcock (born July 25, 1963) is an American painter, illustrator, art instructor and published author. She attended North Texas State University where she earned a BA in Painting and Drawing and Creative Writing. She was a political cartoonist at NTSU Newspaper and the Editor and Chief of NTSU Literary Magazine. During her summer semesters, she attended Chautauqua Art Institute which was a major turning point in her life. She currently teaches her art classes to her students ages 4 and up, and displays and sells her portraits and art work exclusively at Chris Babcock Art Workshop in San Francisco, Calif. Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=c_d_payne Sebastopol writer C.D. Payne is the author of six humorous novels. Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, has been turned into a film coming out in October. Payne's other novels include Revolting Youth, Young and Revolting, Revoltingly Young, Frisco Pigeon Mambo, and Civic Beauties. Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lyn_kalani Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=richard_k_pate Richard K. Pate has degrees in both Architecture and Fine Arts. Raised in Texas, Mr. Pate resides in Northern California. His first publication, The Remembrance Album of Harriet Pruden, is a work of historical fiction. Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christine_walker Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=pierrette_montroy Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gary_zukav Gary Zukav is a spiritual teacher and author of four consecutive New York Times bestsellers. Beginning in 1998, Zukav appeared more than 30 times on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss transformation in human consciousness concepts presented in The Seat of the Soul. Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=betty_dopson Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dan_oneal Dan O'Neill is an American underground cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip Odd Bodkins and founder of the underground comics collective the Air Pirates. Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lin_lipetz Lin Lipetz lives in Sonoma, California, where she teaches painting at the Sonoma Community Center, workshops in Northern Californa and at her home-studio. She is a full time painter devoting herself to what she calls an "Inner theatre of the mind," where intuitive ideas and concepts arrive unbidden, begging to be painted. While living in Seattle for 30 years she became a well known Northwest Artist and Educator. Her work is owned by many private collectors, corporations and the Seattle Art Museum. She was represented by the Seligman, Foster White and Woodside Galleries. During that time she founded and directed her own art school for 10 years, "The Factory of Visual Art," with an enrollment of 500 students and 30 part time faculty. She also taught at the University of Washington. Since moving to California in 1978 Lin has created her work in studios in Davis, Big Sur and Sonoma. Her paintings have been represented by galleries in San Francisco, Santa Monica, Chicago, New York, Seattle and Sonoma. For the past 3 years she has been deeply involved in producing a series of Intuitive, Bird and Botanical watercolor paintings. Just recently she has begun to show this new work in galleries and on this, her first website. She has recently been honored by the Sonoma Cultural and Fine Arts Commission, whose members voted her the "Sonoma Treasure Artist 2009-2010, for her contributions to the community as a whole and to the arts community." The Sonoma Community Center also recently honored her this summer with a 50 year Retrospective of her paintings and ceramics. Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=linda_mccabe Linda McCabe lives in the Wine Country of Northern California with her college sweetheart and teenaged son. She graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Laboratory Science from Michigan State University and a Master's degree as an Historian of Science from Sonoma State University and loves to travel. To aid in the research of her novel, she spent a month in France scouring museums in Paris and trekking through medieval hilltop villages in the Midi-Pyrenees. She has also been a member of the California Writers Club for more than a decade and is past-president of the local branch, Redwood Writers. Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=roland_a_gangloff Roland R. Gangloff specializes in Cambrian Spongiomorphs and Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and taphonomy. He is Emeritus Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics and former Curator of Earth Science at the University of Alaska Museum of the North. He is presently a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley and continues to publish research articles and academic books while volunteering with the fossil collections at the Museum of Paleontology. Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ted_calvert Ted Calvert is a long-time resident of Healdsburg and open about his love affair with the city he adopted. He chose Healdsburg as the place to raise his family and, many years later, is still one of its biggest fans. Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=clarice_stasz Clarice Stasz is Emerita Professor of History at SSU, whose scholarly books address issues of racism, sexism, and power in America. Her multigenerational biographies include The Vanderbilt Women, The Rockefeller Women, and Jack London's Women. In retirement she has returned to her youthful career aspiration, that of a musician and music teacher. Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=scott_landers Scott Landers is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. His short stories have appeared in a number of small literary journals. His debut novel, Coswell’s Guide to Tambralinga, was published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 2004, and sold well over 15 copies. Currently he works as a technical writer and instructional designer, and lives, with great trepidation, in north Sonoma County. Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ransom_stephens Ebook pioneer: author of "the first debut novel to emerge from the new paradigm of online publishing," according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The God Patent, a novel set in the culture war between science and religion that has been embraced by both atheists and theists. Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=beatriz_lagos Beatriz Lagos, one of the most prolific bilingual poets working and writing today was born in Argentina. Though she has lived in Petaluma, California since 1976, she spent her childhood and adolescence in Casilda and Buenos Aires, Argentina, under military dictatorship. She is an active poet and lecturer. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her poetry which are published in literary magazines and in several books in English and Spanish. Her studies and experiences are reflected in the poems and the collections she publishes, including The Great Petaluma Mill and "Shaman Hatal", a Navajo chant which was honored by the Navajo and published in California Poetry Quarterly. Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alicia_bay_laurel Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_carkeet Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=camilla_gray-nelson Camilla Gray-Nelson is the former spokesperson for the United States Food and Drug Administration in the San Francisco bay area, worked for the Nevada Department of Labor, helping women enter trade union apprenticeship programs, and is a professional dog trainer. She lives in Petaluma, California. Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=chip_wright Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=geri_digiorno Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marty_olmstead Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tony_coleiro Tony Coleiro started delivering newspapers as a kid and ended with one of the most unique and interesting jobs in the world--a neighborhood mailman in Santa Rosa and Petaluma, Calif. He was named Petaluma's 2012 Service Person of the Year. Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kathleen_alcott Kathleen Alcott’s debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets, is forthcoming from Other Press in September of 2012. She came of age in Northern California, studied in Southern California, fell in love with San Francisco, hid for a while in Arkansas, and currently resides in Brooklyn. Her work appears on TheRumpus.net; Rumpus Women Vol. 1, an anthology of personal essays by women; The Bold Italic; and is forthcoming in Slice Magazine, American Short Fiction, and Explosion Proof. A copywriter by day, she is currently at work on her second novel, a book that traces the lives of four tenants of an apartment building in New York City and their rapidly deteriorating landlord. Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=suzanne_lipsett Susan Lipsett was born in Buffalo, N.Y., grew up in Southern California and attended the University of California at Berkeley. Working as an editor and writer, she settled in Marin County, where she later received a Marin Arts Council Working Artist Grant in 1985. She later moved with her family to Petaluma. In her final decade, she began publishing under her own name and became a prominent Bay Area novelist and essayist. Her first two novels, "Coming Back Up" and "Out of Danger," were published by Atheneum in 1985 and 1987 respectively. The most recent, "Remember Me" (Mercury House, 1991), was nominated for a Bay Area Book Reviewer Association Award as well as a PEN West Literary Award. Ms. Lipsett also wrote the highly acclaimed "Surviving a Writer's Life," a series of essays on writing, memory, and imagination (Harper San Francisco, 1993). She was working on another series of interlinked memoir-style essays called "Non-Believer: An Atheist Seeks Her Path." Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mickey_hart Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gil_helmick Gil Helmick graduated with Honors and Distinction from the California State University in Sonoma, California in 1976. He avoided graduate school and traveled throughout the United States, Canada , portions of South America and Central America plus various countries in Europe and Asia. His experiences ranged from Park Avenue hotels to Brazilian truck stops, the intimacies of the high jungles to drinking wine with derelicts on the cold winter sidewalks of the Tenderloin in San Francisco. "My beds have been made over marble floored villas and 6 weeks of homeless transient mats." During the early 1980s, Gil was published in small California anthologies and performed upwards to forty public readings. In March of 1985, he flew to Paraguay and Brazil to write fiction. Gil completed two novels, The Accomplice and Wounded Angels. After residing in California, Mexico, New Orleans, Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia. Gil currently resides in Portland, Maine. Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jay_johnson Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_janover Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joan_frank Joan Frank was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She studied with author Thaisa Frank (no relation) at the Univ. of Calif. in Berkeley, CA, and holds an MFA in creative fiction from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. Joan is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, Pushcart Prize nominee, winner of many literary grants and awards, and a San Francisco Library Literary Laureate. She has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University, and continues to teach and edit creative writing in private consultation. Joan also regularly reviews literary fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. She lives in Santa Rosa. Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rayme_waters Born in San Francisco, Rayme Waters grew up in Northern California and the city of Linköping, Sweden. Previously nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Dzanc Best of the Web Award, Rayme’s debut novel, The Angels’ Share, is a fall 2012 release. She lives with her family in Palo Alto, California. Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=vilma_ginzberg Vilma Olsvary Ginzberg is a psychologist who eagerly reconnected with her love of writing after her retirement. She published her first book of poems when well into her 70's, and since then has produced three more collections of poetry, been co-editor of a poetry anthology, served as Healdsburg Literary Laureate 2008/2009, and hosts a monthly literary venue. Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=diane_knopf-siena Diane Knopf (Senia) is an Occidental artists, writer, mother and recent cancer survivor. In her debut book, <em>The Artist Who Painted Her Life--Art and Life Retrospective 1969-2011</em>. she addresses her experience, and shares her insights through her art and her stories. Also depicted with joy and celebration, are other major life events such as motherhood, divorce, adoption, chronic illness, loss of loved ones, and Burning Man. Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jeane_slone Jeane Slone is the Vice President of the Redwood Writer's Club, a member of the Healdsburg Literary Guild, Military Writer's Society of America and the Pacific Coast Air Museum. She is a tutor for the Adult Literacy Program. Ms. Slone writes two blogs http://blog.jeaneslone.com and a blog interviewing new authors: http://author-interviews.jeaneslone.com. Ms. Slone published the historical fiction, She Flew Bombers about the true adventures of the Women Airforce Service Pilots during WWII. Jeane Slone enjoys researching and writing pieces of the forgotten past especially involving female heroines and multi-cultures. Ms. Slone is an avid kayaker with the Russian River outside her window. Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ruth_gordon Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_templeton David Templeton is a longtime arts journalist living and working in the San Francisco North Bay area. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Movieline Magazine, Strings Magazine, Theatre Bay Area Magazine and many others. He writes theater criticism for The North Bay Bohemian and also reviews theater on his weekly radio segment on KRCB Radio and also on KSRO. His popular movie column Talking Pictures runs twice weekly in the Pacific Sun newspaper in Marin County. In 2009, his one man show "Wretch Like Me" began a two-and-a-half year run as an occasional touring production, performing at several theaters around the Bay Area. Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joann_mitchell Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lee_perron Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rhiannon_paine What do you get when you cross a librarian with a man who loved ships, books, maps, and words like "sesquipedalian"? Did you guess "woman, white, probably American, likes to go barefoot"? If you guessed "a book-loving writer who loves to travel and used to go to sea with the British Merchant Navy," then you have an amazing gift, my friend, and should be able to make good money on a quiz show. A few things you might not have guessed: Years ago, I lived in England for long enough to acquire an accent. Unfortunately it's a blend of West Country, Scouse, and Cockney, with a few posh vowels thrown in at random. I'm rubbish at accents. I can't even do a Californian accent properly, and I was born here. Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ken_weaver Ken Weaver received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland – College Park and his M.S. in physics from Cornell University. He has taught creative writing both at Maryland and in a remote Miskito village in Nicaragua. His fiction has appeared in failbetter, Monkeybicycle, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Twelve Stories. His beer writing has appeared in Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, and his first major freelance piece (about adjuncts in craft beer) is the cover story of the March 2011 issue of All About Beer. He previously served as Managing Editor of The Hop Press. Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ed_frankel Ed Frankel was born in Philadelphia in 1945 and became involved seriously with poetry in his early twenties at the Artists' Workshop in Detroit. He earned a B.A. from Antioch University and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA. Ed divides his time between his home in rural Sonoma County and in Los Angeles, where he teaches writing as a faculty member of the UCLA English Department Writing Programs. As adjunct faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles, he teaches writing, literature, poetry, and creative nonfiction for the B.A. and M.F.A. Programs. Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_w_funk Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robin_beeman Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=paul_corey Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dave_smeds Author of ten books and over one hundred shorter pieces of fiction, Dave Smeds works across many genres and types of writing. His endeavors, called "stylistically innovative, symbolically daring examples of craftsmanship at the highest level" by the New York Times Book Review, have appeared in over a dozen languages. Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sylvia_sebastiani Sylvia Sebastiani married the boy next door and became the matriarch and later the chairwoman of one of America's most prominent wine families. Mrs. Sebastiani was also the author of a cookbook of family recipes. For 45 years, she had been known as the first lady of Sonoma, a renowned cook and hostess. She and her husband, August Sebastiani, were philanthropists whose gifts included property for the Sonoma Valley Hospital. In 1980, she inherited Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery after the death of her husband. Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sudhir_diddee Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michael_topolos Michael Topolos is right where he wants to be-on his tractor in the vineyard. He started a winery; received critical acclaim for his wines; wrote several books on the subject; and he is a teacher of wine appreciation at a nearby Jr. College. Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dana_gioia Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. (Gioia is pronounced JOY-uh.) Gioia has published four full-length collections of poetry, as well as eight chapbooks. His poetry collection, Interrogations at Noon, won the 2002 American Book Award. An influential critic as well, Gioia's 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture. Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=henry_conserva Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=diana_j_painter Diana Painter, owner and principal of Painter Preservation & Planning, is a qualified Architectural Historian as specified in the Secretary of Interior's Professional Qualification Standards and is listed with the State offices of Historic Preservation as an architectural historian in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Alaska. She has twenty-five years of professional experience in historic preservation, urban design and planning, and architecture, and is certified by the Institute of Certified Planners as an urban planner. Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=glen_martin Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bob_lorentzen Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=patti_trimble Patti Trimble is a published poet, essay writer, and performance poet. She has performed at many venues and environmental conferences; at the Tuolumne Poetry Festival for ten years. She is professor of creative writing in Siracusa, Sicily, and is writing a book on her apprenticeship with the first generation of abstract expressionist painters. Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mary_cooney Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gerald_rosen Gerald Rosen was a novelist, the author of seven books. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Business and Economics (Wharton MBA), and American History and Literature (MA, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.) For 25 years he ran the fiction writing program at California State University, Sonoma, north of San Francisco. He did not come from educated people. He grew up in The Bronx where the only professional person he knew was his uncle Lenny, who lived upstairs and was an armed robber. His uncle was also the local cub scout leader because he was the only man on the block with free time. Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-08-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lee_engdahl Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tilar_mazzeo Tilar J. Mazzeo is the New York Times best-selling author of books on wine, travel, French culture, and the history of luxury, including The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It, The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume, The Back-Lane Wineries of Sonoma, The Back-Lane Wineries of Napa, and the forthcoming The Ritz at War: Luxury in Occupied Paris (look for it in 2013). She divides her time among the California wine country, New York City, and coastal Maine, where she is the Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English and the co-chair of the English department at Colby College. Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mark_stephen_tate Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sharon_bard Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jabez_churchill Jabez Churchill was born in California and educated in Argentina and the U.S. He has worked as a mariner and charter skipper, a teacher of Spanish at Santa Rosa Junior College, and a creative writing teacher with the California Poets in the Schools. He's been writing poetry since 1975 and has published four books: Songs of Seasons, Controlled Burn, and most recently Sleeping With Ghosts/Durmiendo con Fantasmas and The Veil by Kulupi Press. In August 2007, The Artist's Embassy International recognized Jabez Churchill's excellent work in contributing to understanding and good will between different cultures and peoples, and awarded him the Dr. Kenneth Kuanling Fan Multicultural Award. Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christine_peasley Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=don_fellers Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=vivienne_sosnowski Vivienne Sosnowski has been an editorial director of newspapers, including the Washington, D.C., Examiner and the San Francisco Examiner. A gifted photographer whose portraits of wine country pioneers were the genesis of this book, she divides her time between homes in Sonoma and Vancouver. Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=margo_van_veen Granny Vee [Margo Van Veen] was born in the Netherlands, lived in France, became a French teacher, translator, environmentalist, political activist, satirist, and poet, and last but not least, an American citizen. She has lived in the Bay Area since the early seventies, volunteered for the Sonoma County Peace and Justice Center in the eighties, was a volunteer coordinator for the Sierra Club in the nineties and became a Sonoma County Raging Granny in the 2000’s. She won a literary award from the SRJC, and first prize in a nationwide French essay contest of the Alliance Française. She encourages everyone to frequent the Third Sunday Salon in Healdsburg and to check out the county-wide poetry slams organized by the Sonoma County Library, where she is regularly heard, and where she made it to the finals twice (third place). A self-published songbook, “Have your-self an alternative wee Christmas,” is unfortunately out of print. Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mike_wilson Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kay_mehl_miller At the age of 58 Kay earned her Ph.D. in psychology from Saybrook University in San Francisco. Shortly thereafter she moved from Hawaii to California with her beloved partner John Palmer and enjoyed the next 15 years with him until he died the day after his 96th birthday in 2007. Out of her grief and the necessity to rebuild a life, her book Living with the Stranger in Me: An Exploration of Aging was born. Her first book Talking It Over: Understanding Sexual Diversity, published in 2001, came out of her personal experience of learning how to change deep-rooted and inaccurate assumptions and beliefs about sexual diversity after her son Steve came out to her as gay. Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bill_moody Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jennie_goodrich Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gillian_conoley Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=henry_h_hap_arnold Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold (June 25, 1886 – January 15, 1950) was an American general officer holding the grades of General of the Army and later General of the Air Force. Arnold was an aviation pioneer, Chief of the Air Corps (1938–1941), Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, the only Air Force general to hold five-star rank, and the only person to hold a five-star rank in two different U.S. military services. Arnold retired to a 40-acre (16 ha) ranch near Sonoma, California, and signed a contract with Harper & Brothers to write his memoirs, Global Mission. Unlike George S. Patton, who enjoyed independent wealth, or colleagues who had taken positions in government, such as Marshall (appointed Secretary of State), Arnold had no source of income beyond his retirement pay and allowances, and was not healthy enough to continue service. His autobiography was an attempt to provide financial security for his wife after his death, and during the writing of it he suffered his fifth heart attack in January 1948, hospitalizing him for three months. Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=charles_monroe_schulz Monte Schulz received his M.A. in American Studies from UCSB. He published his first novel, Down by the River, in 1990, and spent the next twelve years writing a novel of the Jazz Age,which is now available in three parts: This Side of Jordan, The Last Rose of Summer, and The Big Town. He wrote it for his father, the late cartoonist, Charles M. Schulz. Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=edna_seidner Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tony_hoskins Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gail_larrick Gail Larrick, a Cloverdale poet, writer, and editor, grew up in Ohio, fell in love with the desert in Utah and Arizona, expanded all her horizons in California, and is living happily ever after. Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=laurel_cook Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tom_mariani Tom J. Mariani was the first of the fifth generation of his family born in Northern California. His grandchildren are the seventh. After an eighteen-year career in bank management with Wells Fargo and Exchange Bank in Santa Rosa, and an eleven year career in corporate risk management, Tom retired to become a full time freelance writer and poet. He has been published in San Francisco's SoMa Literary Journal (www.somalit.com) and in the Santa Rosa Junior College annual art and literary journals, First Leaves 2002 and First Leaves 2009. Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=donald_lewis_emblen Don Emblen was a Sonoma County poet, instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College and mentor to many Sonoma County writers and poets. He served as Sonoma County's first Poet Laureate. "Although he knew many big name poets, and had published several successful books, he knew better than to place any value in the ephemeral opinions of the publishing world. As a consequence, he learned to operate a movable type press and established his own publishing house--Clamshell Press--in his garage, where he hand-set and printed many handsome books and broadsides, thereby encouraging several generations of Sonoma County writers. "--Jean Hegland. Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bruce_e_sloan Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=steve_boga A teacher since 1969, Steve Boga began writing in 1977. He first focused on fiction before turning to memoir and biography. He began to interview and profile world-class adventure athletes--climbers, long-distance runners and cyclists, speed skiers, etc. He has profiled more than sixty such athletes and authored 40 books, including "How to Write Your Life Stories: Memoirs that People Want to Read." He teaches English at Santa Rosa Junior College. Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=charles_shere Charles Shere (born Berkeley, California, 1935) grew up in the Bay Area. He studied composition with Luciano Berio at Mills College and with Robert Erickson privately and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was Music Director at KPFA-fm, Berkeley, 1964-67, Lecturer at Mills College, Oakland, 1973-84, and art and music critic at the Oakland Tribune, 1972-88. He was the founding editor and publisher of the legendary new-music periodical Ear, and is the author of several books on music and on contemporary American composers. Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=don_hagelberg Don Hagelberg was born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, in 1941 and moved with his family to Berkeley, California, in 1947 and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since then. He has been affectionately called "Tauno" since his youth. Don has been active in social justice and civil rights and refused the draft in 1963, serving instead in prison during 1964 and 1965. He took creative writing courses, and in 1974 he created, produced and hosted "Live Poets," a two-hour radio program broadcast weekly on a listener-supported Bay Area station. He is also a founding member of the Bay Area Poets' Coalition [BAPC], through which he supported the organization in its attempt to secure dental insurance for its members as well as supporting its members' guerrilla poetry readings on BART's rapid transit trains. In 1981, Don moved to the foothills of California on the death of his woman friend who refused treatment both for cancer and mental illness. This event triggered his own breakdown. He has past his 20th year in recovery and still writes and works for social justice. Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=amy_racina Amy Racina lives in Healdsburg. She is self-employed, and owns and operates two businesses. Amy is a California State Parks Volunteer, working with Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods protecting and preserving several of California's State Parks. Amy also volunteers for The Ceres Community Project, a non-profit organization that cooks and delivers organic home-cooked meals to cancer patients and others with debilitating illnesses. She is an integral part of a "Share the Care" program for a good friend who has been paralyzed by Multiple Sclerosis. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=eugene_h_boudreau Eugene H. Boudreau (b. 1934) served in the U.S. Marine Corps before studying geology at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1959. That same year he began working as a mining geologist and first visited Mexico, traveling through the states of Sonora and Sinaloa. Both states had been major mining centers since the early Spanish colonial period, and he initially directed his attention toward mines in the area. Soon, however, he became intrigued by the Mestizo and Indigenous residents of the area and began collecting information about their history and lives as well as textiles and other articles they produced. In 1960 he extended his travels into the rugged Sierra Tarahumara, located in the States of Sinaloa and Chihuahua, visiting Indigenous communities where no other scholar had ever been. Over the course of more than forty years, he has conducted extensive research and collecting in the area and has produced a series of important books and articles about the history and culture of the people there. In the 1990s, he donated his collection of ethnographic objects and photographs to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jo-anne_rosen Jo-Anne is a fiction writer, book and web designer, and small press publisher. She established Wordrunner Publishing Services in the 80s, a print chapbook service in the '90s, and Wordrunner eChapbooks in 2008. Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=james_ishmael_ford Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=holly_hoods Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lewis_perdue New York Times best-selling author Lewis Perdue's twenty published books have sold more than 4 million copies and have been translated into every major language in the world along with more than a dozen other tongues. Of his twenty published books, fifteen are thrillers and the remaining five cover wine, technology, and how porn has driven the technology and business model of the World Wide Web. Perdue studied physics and biology in college and usually works those into his books. He received his B.S. (1972) with distinction from Cornell University and graduated sixth in his class. He has served on the faculties at UCLA and Cornell University, founded four companies including two technology firms, a wine company and a magazine, and been a top aide to a U.S. Senator and a state governor. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=nancy_wilson Nancy R Wilson, after many successful years of ER nursing, child-raising, house-wifeing, travel agenting, and occasional higher-education-pursuing, has settled into a respectable retirement, filling her time as a volunteer at Cinnabar Theater (Head House Manager/Volunteer Coordinator) and the Petaluma Library (Local History Room Docent). In her remaining free time (one could argue that in retirement it is ALL ‘free time’) she enjoys traveling, writing, and dreaming up huge remodelling projects that occasionally come to fruition. She is a nit-picking grammarian, a darn good baker, and a bloodthirsty competitor at any card or board game she can find. Her caramel corn is legendary. She loves her family. She is proudly left-handed. Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_jones Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=katya_cengel Katya began her career in Latvia in the late 1990s as a journalist reporting on the newly independent country. Her stories focused on the country’s identity struggle and covered such issues as granting Russian residents citizenship, confronting Nazi and Soviet crimes and dealing in the emergence of human trafficking. After an internship with the BBC in London, she returned to the former Soviet Union. In Ukraine she reported on people living illegally in the exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl, traveled down a coal mine to investigate the real conditions of mining in the region and camped out in tent cities formed by protesters in the uprisings leading to the Orange Revolution. As a feature and metro reporter for the the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper she tracked down the elusive “Marlboro Marine”, spent a week in an Amish community and traveled to Africa to find the families of refugees resettled in Louisville. A World Affairs Journalism Fellow in 2005, she received second place in the Society of Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award in 2006 for her series "Lost Boys, Torn Families". Her 2009 series on minor league baseball players inspired her first book, Bluegrass Baseball, being released by University of Nebraska Press in the summer of 2012. As a freelance journalist she continues to travel and report from around the globe. Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=cr_mick_clumpner Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mary_fricker Mary Fricker is a journalist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lawton_rebecca In the tradition of America’s strong pioneer women, Rebecca Lawton was one of the first women river guides in the West. Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=freda_foster_awalt Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=diana_spaulding Diana Spaulding is a librarian living in Petaluma. She teaches information literacy at Santa Rosa Junior College. Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=stefanie_freele Stefanie Freele recently won the Glimmer Train Fiction Open. Her published and forthcoming work can be found in Glimmer Train, Sou'wester, Mid-American Review, Western Humanities Review, Quarterly West, The Florida Review, American Literary Review, Night Train, Edge, and Pank. Stefanie is the Fiction Editor of the Los Angeles Review. Her collection, Feeding Strays, was published by Lost Horse Press and was the finalist for the John Gardner Binghamton Fiction Award and the Book of the Year Award. Stefanie's second collection, Surrounded by Water, will be published by Press 53 in 2012. Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=cynthia_palmer Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=duncan_debbie Debbie Duncan is the author of an award-winning picture book as well as a book for parents about children's books and reading. She has written essays for local and national newspapers, magazines and books, and reviews children's books for the Palo Alto Weekly. She is a regular contributor to the Perspectives series of commentaries on San Francisco NPR station KQED. She is also a co-author of three children's musicals. Debbie graduated with honors in Humanities and American Studies from Stanford University. She and her family live on the Stanford campus. Her first novel, Caller Number Nine, will be available in summer 2011 as an eBook. Debbie is also fanatic about her World Champion San Francisco Giants. Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=daniel_coshnear Daniel Coshnear lives in Guerneville with his wife Susan, and daughter, Circe, and son, Daedalus. He was born in Baltimore, son of Lawrence and Marie Coshnear, third of four children, respectively Richard, Valerie and Kimberly. He lived in NYC from '82 to '93 and moved to SF in '93. He moved to Guerneville in '95. He has worked in mental health for over twenty years. He has been a writing instructor for a dozen. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations -Helicon Nine 2001 - and the soon to be released Occupy & Other Love Stories - Kelly's Cove Press 2012. Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=elsbree_chuck During the past 30 years Chuck Elsbree has been accumulating an impressive collection of farm equipment and implements that were manufactured before early tractor development over 100 years ago. Chuck grew up working on the family ranch in Windsor, California during the 1940s and 1950s and vividly remembers some of the equipment in his collection that was then still in use although powered by tractors instead of teams of horses as in years past. For most of his professional career, Chuck worked as a research and development engineer in the aerospace industry. In that capacity Chuck helped develop missiles used in the Apollo Space Flight Program. His last aerospace assignment was as program manager for developing the hardware used on the Lunar Lander, and since then he has been granted six different patents. Using his engineering knowledge and documentation skills, Chuck has identified, labeled, dated and proudly displays most of his ever-increasing collection of restored and partially-restored items for visitors to enjoy at his Elsbree Family Vineyard Ranch in Windsor. Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=xerxes_whitney Xerxes Whitney is 6th grade physical education teacher in Sonoma. He coaches basketball, cross country & tennis. He loves being very active and enjoys traveling in his spare time. Xerxes sees life through different lenses because he was born with mild cerebral palsy, which affects his speech and muscle control. Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=charles_schulz Charles Monroe Schulz. nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis. Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=martha_courtot Martha Courtot was a lesbian, an activist, the mother of three, the grandmother of one, and a prolific poet. In her lifetime she published books and chapbooks. Some of her poems took on lives of their own, passed lesbian to lesbian on handwritten, typed, dittoed, or xeroxed pages. Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=greg_sarris Gregory Michael Sarris (born February 12, 1952) is a college professor, author, screenwriter, and a member and current Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. He was chosen in 2005 to fill the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. The Chair was endowed by his tribe. He was formerly the Fletcher Jones Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and a full professor at UCLA for ten years. Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=florence_strange Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=stacey_shuett Stacey Shuett is a children's book author and illustrator living in west Sonoma County. Since her first book, years ago, she writes, "I've illustrated many more. I've written a number of my own stories, also, which allow me the chance to build a book from both sides--text and pictures--as both the author and illustrator. (I find I am amazingly easy to work with.)" Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=holly_near Holly Near is a unique combination of entertainer, teacher, and activist. An immense vocal talent, Near’s career as a singer has been defined by an unwillingness to separate her passion for music from her passion for human dignity. She is a skilled performer and an outspoken ambassador for peace who brings to the stage an integration of world consciousness, spiritual discovery, and theatricality. A prolific writer and recording artist, Near has released 26 recordings of her own, including the seminal Imagine My Surprise, and performs as a guest on many others. In the past few years, Near has been busy re-releasing much of her early material. She continues to write and sing political songs with grace and humor, and her integrity earns her the reputation as one of the most articulate social change artists working today, with a power and maturity that may only come from decades of love and fear, despair, and inspiration. In 2007, she released Sing To Me The Dream, an extended and remastered version of her 1984 live concert tour with Inti Illimani. A new collaborative recording with emma’s revolution, We Came To Sing!, which was born of the 2008 "Sing Out the Vote" tour, was released in August 2009. Holly and emma’s revolution put their unique vocal stamp on songs from Holly’s repertoire in eleven tracks that include old favorites such as Listen to the Voices, Sky Dances, and Fired Up along with new arrangements of Study War No More and Sail Away Lady, Pat Humphries’ Swimming to the Other Side, and Rick Burkhardt’s (The Prince Myshkins) Ministry of Oil. Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joe_e_armstrong Joe Edwin Armstrong (July 23, 1927 to May 13, 2010) was an electrical engineer, college professor and former Navy pilot who loved storytelling, folk dancing and organic farming. Towards middle age he taught at Sonoma State University. His two books, Tales of a Fledging Homesteader and PK: Preacher Kid Stories from Arkansas, detail his house building near Mill Creek outside Healdsburg, and his youth in the rural South. Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bonnie_bergin Bonita M. Bergin Ed. D. is President of the Bergin University of Canine Studies. According to the publisher Random House, she is the originator of the "service dog", dogs that are trained to help people with mobility limitations. Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=reva_basch A writer, editor and consultant to the online industry, based on the scenic northern California coast. Started out as a librarian, took time off to go to restaurant school, moved across country a couple of times, went to work for a research firm called Information on Demand, spent two years as a software designer, and started a company. Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_withington Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bill_pronzini Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. He published his first novel, The Stalker, in 1971. However, his best known works are the Nameless Detective series, which he began in 1971. As of April, 2009, there are more than 35 books in the series, as well as a number of short stories. Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_koetzner John Koetzner, a resident of Healdsburg for the past thirty-five years, has been an educator, freelance writer and winery worker. He has taught secondary school and community college, teaching with a focus on creative writing, critical thinking and basic literacy. His short stories, poetry and reviews have appeared in numerous publications over the past thirty years including journals such as Lactuca, Brushfire, California English, The Dickens, Modern Haiku, The Poet, Poetry Journal, City Miner, New Age Journal, Reno News & Review, Pacific Sun, Frogpond, and numerous others. His CD Four Stories & Poetry was recorded in 2009. Additionally, he was a music critic for Blues Access and was a contributing author for the book, Musichound Guide to the Blues. He co-authored a wine column for the Healdsburg Tribune called Wine Tributaries that eventually moved to Wines.com and then its own domain. Currently, he is Head Librarian at Mendocino College where he created a literary event called Litfest that is in its fifth year. He is a listed poet and fiction writer with Poets & Writers, and he makes his home with his wife Margie, two Miniature Schnauzers, two cats, and a small vineyard. Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=larry_linderman Lawrence Linderman is a writer who has written extensively for Playboy and Penthouse magazines. He also helped Beverly Sills pen her autobiography. His article "Undercover Angel" in the July, 1981 issue of Playboy was the basis for Larry Ferguson's screenplay for the movie Beyond the Law. Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=cynthia_grant Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=katherine_hastings Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lolo_westrich Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-07-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_c_hartstein Robert Hartstein was born in the Bronx, New York in 1946. His grandparents were among the first wave of Eastern European immigrants who migrated to this country after World War I. Orphaned at the age of six, Robert spent his early years in New York and California. Robert is a retired labor relations manager with over forty years of service in the public sector. He has worked at all levels of local government—city, county, and state. He studied business administration and behavioral science in the California State University System and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Manpower Management. His education was interrupted by a tour of duty in the United States Marine Corps, where he served honorably. Following his service in the Marine Corps, Robert married the former Cynthia Brown, his wife of forty-three years. They have two grown sons and three grand children, all living in California. Robert and Cynthia split their time between the beautiful Coachella Valley in Southern California and the majestic Russian River Valley in Northern California, where they pursue an active outdoor life and, of course, where Robert continues to write. Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gail_king Gail King works as a para-educator specializing in mathematics at Monte Rio School and is also transportation supervisor for the District. She has been writing poetry since high school and has been an integral part of many women’s writing groups over the years in the Russian River area. She was the publisher of Doris Green Editions, a small literary press active in the '70s and '80s. Boxes & Chairs published in 2006 by What Leaf Press is her second collection of poems. Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marcia_muller Marcia Muller is an author of fictional mystery and thriller novels. Muller has written many novels featuring her Sharon McCone female private detective character. Vanishing Point, won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel. In 2005, Muller was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master award. She is married to detective fiction author Bill Pronzini with whom she has collaborated on several novels. Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sere_prince_halverson "I am from a lot of places, but I now live in Northern California and it feels like home. I worked for 20 years as a freelance copywriter while I wrote fiction and raised kids. My husband and I have four grown children. I'm a mom and a stepmom, and I have a mom and a stepmom. The Underside of Joy is my debut novel." Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joe_mesics Joe Mesics (1932-2011) never met a grapevine he didn't like. A farmer at heart, Mesics had a career in the New York magazine publishing world after Dartmouth and the U.S. Marine Corps. He fulfilled his lifelong farming interest by developing a 45-acre grape vineyard in Oregon and then moved to the center of Sonoma County, California's grape activity, where he sustained his grapevine love with a mountainside vineyard of Syrah and Viognier. Mesics believed that the romance of viticulture has resulted in much character building. Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=richard_moran Richard A. Moran is a San Francisco based business leader, venture capitalist, social scientist, best selling author and evangelist for organization effectiveness. He is best known for his series of humorous business books beginning with bestselling, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality and is credited with starting the genre of "Business Bullet Books." Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=edward_von_der_porten Edward Von Der Porten is a naval historian, nautical archaeologist, museum director, and educator. He is a founding member of the Drake Navigator's Guild, which is devoted to studying the history of Sir Francis Drake's landing in California. Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=maryann_schacht Maryann Schacht, author of A Caregiver's Challenge: Living, Loving, Letting Go, is an expert on caregiving and family issues. She worked as a psychotherapist specializing in families in crisis for more than thirty years. Her professional experience includes private and group practice, social work at hospitals and schools, and teaching at universities in both California and New York. Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jeffrey_miller Jeffrey Miller's work has been an underground classic, inspiring and captivating three generations of poets who have had the good fortune to encounter Miller's work. Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marsha_diane_arnold The media has called Marsha Diane Arnold a "born storyteller" and a "magician of literary innovations." Her literary pathway began with the much-loved, award-winning newspaper column "homegrown treasures." Soon Marsha was writing for kids' magazines and in 1995 came her first book, Heart of a Tiger, for which she won the Ridgway Award for Best First Book by a New Author. When not creating imaginative worlds and wacky characters at her home in northern California, Marsha enjoys traveling the world, scuba diving, and (like her characters) always trying new things. Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=simon_jeremiah Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=degaetano_john Director and Actor in the San Francisco Bay Area and author of five new original plays; The hilarious antics in - "The Fat Man", "A Situation in Safe Haven," the screwball comedic courtroom drama - "Once Upon a Crime," real life social issues in "Average Joe" and a new adventure for "Sherlock Holmes and the Princess Jewel." Mr. DeGaetano has been involved in musical theater most of his life, his director credits include the productions; Cats, Pirates of Penzance, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Chicago and has assisted with numerous other productions such as Miss Saigon along with Radio and Television work. Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=anna_morrison_reed Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=waights_taylor Waights Taylor Jr., born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, lives in Santa Rosa, California. His professional career included twenty-four years in the aviation industry and then twenty-two years in management consulting. When his professional career was coming to an end, he turned to writing. He is an author, a poet, and a playwright. His first book, Alfons Mucha's Slav Epic: An Artist's History of the Slavic People, was published in 2008. His latest book, Our Southern Home: Scottsboro to Montgomery to Birmingham-The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth century, was published in October 2011. He has written a number of short stories and plays. His first chapbook of poetry, titled Literary Ramblings, was published in early 2011. Waights is a member of the Healdsburg Literary Guild and the Redwood Writers. Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=claudia_lawson Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tom_silberkleit Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=andrei_codrescu Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michael_horowitz Michael Horowitz (born 11 December 1938 in Brooklyn) is an American author and archivist in San Francisco. His father, Sol Horowitz, and paternal grandparents were Jews from Russia. Horowitz's American-born mother, Ethel (n&#233; Frankel), and his maternal side of the family were Romanian Jews.[2] Some of his relatives died during the Holocaust. He is the husband of author Cynthia Palmer, and the father of Winona Ryder and Uri Horowitz. A former close associate of Timothy Leary, he is responsible with his wife for the creation of the world's largest library of drug literature, the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library. Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=francine_shapiro Francine Shapiro, Ph.D., is the originator and developer of EMDR, which has been so well researched that it is now recommended as an effective treatment for trauma in the Practice Guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association, and those of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. Dr. Shapiro is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, California, Executive Director of the EMDR Institute in Watsonville, CA, and founder and President Emeritus of the EMDR Humanitarian Assistance Programs, a non-profit organization that coordinates disaster response and low fee trainings worldwide. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bill_barich Bill Barich is the author of seven books, including Laughing in the Hills, named one of the hundred best sports books of all time. Other works include a novel, Carson Valley, and most recently a work of nonfiction, A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish. His new book, A Pint of Plain (Bloomsbury/Walker, 2009), is about the decline of the traditional Irish pub. A Guggenheim Fellow, and literary laureate of the San Francisco Public Library, Barich now lives and works in Dublin. Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gabi_moskowitz Gabi Moskowitz is the editor-in-chief of the nationally-acclaimed blog BrokeAss Gourmet and author of "The BrokeAss Gourmet Cookbook" (May 2012). After attending college in Boston and spending three years teaching kindergarten, Gabi began to consider a career in the culinary arts. She worked as a caterer and cooking teacher before discovering food writing.<br><br>She launched BrokeAss Gourmet in February of 2009, and since then, Gabi and the site have been featured in TIME, The New York Times, Real Simple Magazine, MSN Money and NBC's 11 O'Clock News. Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bruno_buti Bruno O. Buti, (pronounced "booty") born to immigrant Italian parents May 23, 1922, in San Bruno, California, the youngest of three children. Nursed to an age he can still remember, then weaned on wine for lack of a cow, he was raised in an era when milk pails runneth over with fresh made alcohol. Its purpose, both good and bad, he learned at an early age. Growing up underfoot of tough bootleggers, he spent his childhood experiencing unpleasant run-ins between them and crooked lawmen. The lesson put doubt in his mind: "Which was the lesser of the two evils?" Haunted by memories of the involvement that his father, relatives and colleagues had in bucking prohibition, their ups and downs in the struggle to make it in a society hostile to immigrant minorities, the author finally dares to unload the burden he carried for so long. Therefore his tale, Rumbling Wine Barrels, and its sequel, Jackass Brandy (soon to follow), attempt to bring out the characteristics and qualities of this particular group of, people, by depicting them the way they were during those fabulous Twenties. He wrote his 90,000 word manuscript in long hand, on yellow pads, using the hood of his Jeep as a desk in his prune orchard in Cloverdale, California. Once his book was completed, the reality of publishing a book became clear. "Nobody would even look at my manuscript," Buti said. One editor told him "We don't publish novels, we publish authors." Bruno decided to take matters in his own hands and in September, he had 2500 copies printed at his own expense. By December he had them sold, and is now in his third printing. He sells his novel of prohibition in San Francisco, in local wineries. Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=paul_erdman Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jill_nussinow Jill Nussinow is a contributing editor for Natural Food Network magazine, a guest writer for Vegan Culinary Experience magazine, contributor to food and cooking websites including Savvy Vegetarian and newsletters including Mended Hearts in Santa Rosa, CA and Triple Whammy Cure. Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ann_wilkes I've wanted to write science fiction since I was a kid. I grew up watching Star Trek reruns, Creature Feature and reading science fiction magazines. Star Wars was the first movie I ever saw in the theater a second time. Now, I'm writing story after story, getting published and getting read. Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=amalie_langmueller Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_tarrant John Tarrant is a Western Zen teacher, currently director of the Pacific Zen Institute in Santa Rosa, California. Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_w_peri David W. Peri was a Bodega Mi-Wok and taught anthropology at Sonoma State University. Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jim_benefield Jim Benefield was the Sonoma County advertising executive who inherited Clo the Cow and built her into a superstar. Benefield took charge of Clo’s "career" in the 1970s when he became a partner in Santa Rosa, Calif.'s first ad agency, which was founded in the 1950s and had pioneered the Clo billboards advertising Clover-Stornetta dairy products. They had been familiar sights on North Bay highways for a decade or more when Benefield became the author/editor of a string of outrageous puns that continue to this day, winning awards in national advertising competitions and providing a welcome chuckle to commuters. Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=megan_mcdonald Sometimes I think I AM Judy Moody, says Megan McDonald, author of the award-winning JUDY MOODY books. "I'm certainly moody, like she is. Judy has a strong voice and always speaks up for herself. I like that." Being able to speak up for herself wasn't always easy. The author grew up as the youngest of five sisters in a house full of books in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, an ironworker, built bridges across the city and was known to his coworkers as "Little Johnny the Storyteller." Every evening at dinnertime the McDonald family would gather around the kitchen table, talking and telling stories. But with four older sisters, Megan remembers barely being able to get a word in edgewise. "I'm told I began to stutter," she says. "That's when my mother gave me a notebook, so that I could write down everything I wanted to say!" Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=maureen_hurley Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ann_m_connor Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=james_b_alexander Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dreyer_peter Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mary_a_mcdougall Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_magdalene Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jan_freeman_long Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lisa_osina Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_lynch Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=russ_kingman Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gerry_forth Gerry Forth writes under the name of Edward Forth in honor of his father, a man of substance and quiet strength. He is a graduate of Baylor University, with a graduate degree in management from Northwestern. He served in the U.S. Army 1967-69 and was one of those fortunate veterans to have gone to college on the VA Bill. He worked in business, primarily health care, for many years, honing his creative writing skills with business plans for new ventures and products. In 1998 he moved to Healdsburg in Sonoma County, California where he makes wine under the Forth Vineyards label. He and Jann met in Germany about forty years ago, and they have been a couple ever since. If you visit the South of France, you may see them walking the hills around Nice, where they try to spend time every year. Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jennifer_lynn_alvarez Jennifer graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. She is a full-time blogger, author, wife and mother of three. The Pet Washer is her debut novel for middle-grade readers. It is the first in a three book series chronicling the friendships and adventures of Cianna, Polly and Caden. The second book in the series, The Wishing Star, is scheduled for release in 2012. Jennifer lives in Northern California with her family and their pets--Maddie (horse), Calvin (horse), Comet (pony), Koda (dog), Daisy (dog), Rainbow (cat), Dash (cat), Muffin (cat), Kovu (guinea pig) and Storm (fish)! Jennifer also blogs about the current recession at The Jennifer (Recession) Diaries.Jennifer is seeking representation for her young adult novel, Dead Girls Don't Cry. The second book in the Pet Washer series, The Wishing Star, is also scheduled for release in 2012. Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=scott_landis Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=barbara_l_baer Barbara L. Baer, editor/publisher of Floreant Press, (Cartwheels on the Faultline; Saltwater, Sweetwater, Pomegranate Roads among titles) won national journalism awards for essays and fiction. She lived in former USSR where her novella, Grisha the Scrivener (2009) starts in 1970s and concludes in independent Russia. Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sherril_jaffe Sherril Jaffe is a professor of creative writing at Sonoma State University and lives in San Francisco. She is the winner of a 2001 PEN award and a 2010 MacDowell Fellowship. Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=amy_tan Amy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages. She attended school in Santa Rosa as a child. Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=carolyn_resnick Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=arthur_winfield_knight Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=terry_ehret Terry Ehret (born 1955 San Francisco) is an American poet. She graduated from Stanford University in 1977, and from San Francisco State University in 1984, with an MA. She served as poet laureate of Sonoma County, from 2004-2006, where she lives with her husband. Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=arthur_dawson Arthur Dawson is an award-winning poet, author, and teacher of creative writing, as well as the founder and publisher of Kulupi Press. His most recent collections of poetry are Saying this Place Right: Poems of Landscape and Language (available from Finishing Line Press), and Western Scenes from Chinese Characters from DPress (available soon on this website). He also leads an historical ecology research program in Sonoma Valley, California, which traces land-use changes in his home watershed through the accounts of elders and historical records. Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kevin_christensen Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=duane_big_eagle Duane Big Eagle is an Osage poet. Besides writing and publishing his poems, he has taught creative writing as part of the California Poets in the Schools program. He is also a traditional Southern Straight dancer, and a member of the Northern California Osage Association. Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kristen_wells Kristen Wells spent twenty-five years working as a singer/songwriter before turning her talents to writing picture books. She began by crafting more than two dozen rhyming treasure hunts for kids of all ages, beginning with her own son and daughter. Tailoring each personalized treasure hunt for the birthday girl or boy, her hand picked themes have ranged from comic book heroes to kittens. Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=nancy_bauer Nancy Bauer is the author of The Habitat Garden Book: Wildlife Landscaping for the San Francisco Bay Region. She is a writer and garden instructor based in Sonoma County. She has taught classes for the San Francisco Botanical Garden, UC Davis Master Gardeners’ training programs, the National Wildlife Stewardship Program, and for numerous garden and nature organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_k_hall Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=maya_sarada_devi Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jennie_orvino Jennie Orvino has been writing since she got a diary with a lock and key at age 14. Her poems have been published at cleansheets.com, slowtrains.com, in Redwood Coast Review, Present at the Creation, Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology, West County Reader, and many others. Jennie Orvino was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, lived in Milwaukee for 10 years after college and then moved to Sonoma County California in 1978. Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tim_flinders Tim Flinders, MA, studied English and Sanskrit literature at the University of California, Berkeley and holds a masters degree in Culture and Spirituality. An educator and writer, he has written about meditation, health and spirituality, and Gandhian nonviolence. He is the author of Sacred Surround: The Thought & Spirituality of Thomas Berry; The RISE Response: Illness, Wellness and Spirituality; and co-author, with Carol, of The Making of a Teacher.His writings on nonviolence appear in Gandhi the Man and Nonviolent Soldier of Islam. Tim lectures on contemplative spiritualty at the Sophia Center, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA, and is a research fellow at the Spirituality and Health Institute, Santa Clara University, where he has taught courses on meditation and studied its health benefits among college students. He has published numerous scientific articles on meditation and health. Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=anne_rice Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941) is a best-selling Southern American author of metaphysical gothic fiction, Christian literature and erotica from New Orleans, Louisiana. Her books have sold nearly 100 million copies, making her one of the most widely read authors in modern history. She was married to poet and painter Stan Rice for 41 years until his death from brain cancer in 2002. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=olga_cossi My earliest memories are of St. Helena in the heart of California’s Napa Valley wine country. I remember taking part in a glorious Vintage Festival pageant there. And I remember working as a student reporter for the St. Helena Star. Those landmark facts convince me that I certainly spent time there in what I then called the here. Frankly, I am still here. So far, no matter where I find myself, I am here. All my stories are actually about my being here, now, one. The characters in my stories are just smoke screens. That is what writing is all about, and admittedly I am a writer. I hope to continue writing. I hope, too, that you will continue reading what I write. Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-06-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=frederick_d_euphrat Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=craig_fraser Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_twohy Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gwynn_ogara Gwynn O'Gara's poetry has been published in CALYX, descant, and The Evansville Review, and anthologized in the Beatitude Silver (1985) and Gold (2009) Editions; Pillow: Exploring the Heart of Eros from Shambala Press, and So Luminous the Wildflowers, an Anthology of California Poetry. Her first book, Snake Woman Poems, was published in 1983 by Beatitude Press with an introduction by Nanos Valaoriits. dpress published her chapbook Fixer-Upper in 2007 and her second chapbook, Winter at Green Haven, was published in 2008 by WordTemple Press. She has taught with California Poets in the Schools for twenty years. Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kathleen_hill Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=evelyn_eileen_ee_smith Evelyn Eileen Smith (aka "E.E. Smith") resides in the San Francisco Bay area and is an award-winning playwright of more than a dozen plays. The debut novel, "Boardinghouse Stew" was inspired by her own real-life experiences working in a Boardinghouse in Sacramento during World War II. Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=steve_parish Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969 and Parish was captivated by the music. Parish traveled to California where his apprenticeship began. Working for the band for free and learning his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy and Mickey and through the years their relationships forged an unbreakable bond. He became very close with Garcia in particular, acting as his personal roadie and later manager for his solo performances and Garcia Band shows. Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=thomas_cooper Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=trevor_alixopulos Trevor Alixopulos is a cartoonist and illustrator. In his comics work, "I am interested in how icon and narrative interact and swap roles. My stories generally explore broad human themes while employing the medium's visual grammar to evoke the individual and internal. One thing I like about comics is how they stake out a common zone of understanding, while dramatizing those areas where understanding breaks down. I'm most comfortable in the profane realm of the cartoon, where the word won't go; where language becomes sign, visual joke, enigmatic heraldry." Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=helen_rayburn_caswell Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_fisher Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bugliosi_vincent Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson, lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the author or co-author of many books, among them the #1 best-sellers Helter Skelter, And the Sea Will Tell, and Outrage; plus Four Days in November, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, No Island of Sanity, The Betrayal of America, Lullaby and Good Night, Shadow Of Cain, Till Death Us Do Part, Drugs in America, and The Phoenix Solution. Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=phyllis_zauner Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lynn_lyman_trombetta Lynn Lyman Trombetta is a third-generation Sonoma County native who lives with her husband on a former dairy ranch on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, California. She often finds inspiration for her poetry in the wildlife and natural beauty of that landscape. Her honors include the D. L. Emblen Award from Santa Rosa Junior College, an award from the journal Americas Review, and three Pushcart Prize nominations. Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=daedalus_howell Daedalus Howell began his career as a small town newspaperman before becoming a big city newspaperman; a novelist and then a screen hack in Los Angeles working in television and film development. Repatriated to his native wine country in 2005. Howell worked in a couple of media start-ups as a writer and filmmaker prior to launching FMRL - a publisher of original digital media. Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mark_sloane Mark Sloan, MD, author of Birth Day, A Pediatrician explores the Science, the History, and the Wonder of Childbirth, has been a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics for more than 25 years. Dr. Sloan practices at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Rosa, and was their Chief of Pediatrics from 1997-2002. He now takes care of the children of many of his original patients. Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bruce_b_henderson Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=susan_panttaja I didn't know I wanted to be a geologist until my freshman year in college. After that first class, I was hooked. I have worked as a geologist for the past two decades, most of that time as an environmental geologist. I have also worked in the oil and geothermal industries and in academic research. My education and field work have taken me to some beautiful places in Minnesota, Arizona, the deserts of southeastern California and Nevada, Antarctica, and the wilds of northern California. Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tc_boyle T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of twenty-two books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010) and When the Killing's Done (2011). He received a Ph.D. degree in Nineteenth Century British Literature from the University of Iowa in 1977, his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1974, and his B.A. in English and History from SUNY Potsdam in 1968. He has been a member of the English Department at the University of Southern California since 1978, where he is Distinguished Professor of English. His work has been translated into more than two dozen foreign languages, including German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Farsi, Croatian, Turkish, Albanian, Vietnamese, Serbian and Slovene. His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Prise for best novel of the year (World's End, 1988); the PEN/Malamud Prize in the short story (T.C. Boyle Stories, 1999); and the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (The Tortilla Curtain, 1997). He currently lives near Santa Barbara with his wife and three children. Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=darla_hillard Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sarah_cornelius Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_crimmins Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ianthe_brautigan Ianthe Brautigan was born in San Francisco at the tail-end of the Beat Era. Her memoir You Can’t Catch Death has been published in the USA, UK, and has been translated into German. You Can't Catch Death has just been optioned by a motion picture company. The screen writer, Alan Sharp ("Rob Roy") is writing the screenplay. Ianthe's work has appeared in Cartwheels on The Faultline and The Poet’s Eye: A Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in City Lights Books, Antioch Review and will appear in Confrontations. She teaches at Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College. She’s lived in Montana and Hawaii and has resided quite happily in Northern California for over twenty years with her husband and daughter, two cats and an adorable dog, Lolly. Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_matson Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=meg_hamill Meg Hamill received her MFA from Mills College in 2005. Her acclaimed first book, Death Notices, was published in 2007 by Factory School Press. Her second book, Trillions & Trillions of Heartbeats was published in 2008. Meg grew up in Maine but currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, where she works as a writer and teaches with California Poets in the Schools. Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=philip_k_dick Philip Kindred Dick was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist whose published work is almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michael_larrain Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jacques_levy Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=phyllis_hiller Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_chadwick Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=philip_van_soelen Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=raymond_barrio Raymond Barrio's social protest novel The Plum Plum Pickers (1969) remains the most anthologized work of Chicano fiction. Selections from it have appeared in more than twenty high-school and college-level textbooks. Barrio is not Chicano by birth; he was born in West Orange, New Jersey, of Hispanic parentage. His parents immigrated to the United States from Spain in 1920. His father, Saturnino Barrio, born in Seville, was killed by poisonous fumes in a chemical factory in New Jersey; his mother, Angelita Santos Barrio, was from Algeciras and is living today in San Francisco. In unpublished correspondence Barrio explained that he and his brother lived with foster families while their mother pursued her career as a Spanish dancer, giving him a "very independent United States Protestant education, despite a Catholic birth and upbringing." Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kenna_lee Full-time nurse, part-time environmentalist, and all-the-time mother, Kenna Lee lives in Sebastopol, California, with her three semi-feral children and several domesticated animals. She began publishing in online venues including literarymama.com, tiny-lights.com, mamaphonic.com, witnessthewaywelive.com, and mamazine.com, where she wrote about maternal eco-anxiety in her online column, "Home Eco-nomics." Her personal essays have also been published by Brain, Child, Amoskeag (global warming issue), Midwifery Today, the Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses, the American Journal of Nursing, and the Northern California Bohemian, as well as aired on the KQED Perspectives series. Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jay_shafer Jay Shafer is recognized as an expert in small living. He is a designer specializing in sustainable architecture and urban planning. He has lectured extensively on these subjects for such venues as the Eco-Dwelling program at New College, the Boston Architectural Center, and the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History where he served as Adjunct Assistant Professor for more than a decade.<br><br>Jay's designs and essays have appeared in a number of periodicals, books, and television shows including "Fine Homebuilding", "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", "CNN", "Oprah", and "This Old House". Awards include selection for the American Institute of Architect's 2005 Sustainable Design Symposium (Dee Williams, collaborator), and Natural Home's Home of the Year Award for Innovative Design in 2000.<br><br>Until recently, he lived in 96-square foot house on wheels, but now lives in Graton with his family in a slightly larger house; his old house now serves as his office. Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=andrew_e_ferguson Andy Ferguson graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Chinese studies from the University of Oregon in 1973. The same year he moved to Kyoto, and subsequently to Taipei, where he studied Japanese and Chinese respectively. He first entered and traveled in mainland China in 1978, before the economic reforms, and subsequently lived in Singapore and Hong Kong where he worked as the Manager for East Asia for a USA company. At that time he began locating and studying a wide variety of Chinese historic cultural sites, especially temples related to the Chinese Chan tradition. He is the author of “Zen’s Chinese Heritage: The Masters and their Teachings,” a book in which he translated the teachings of more than 150 ancient Chinese Zen masters. The book is widely used as a reference book in academic and religious culture circles. He has also produced a two hour video DVD about Chinese history and culture, designed for people who didn’t take two semesters of Chinese history in college but want to know about China in depth before they go there. He lectures frequently on Chinese culture to community groups in North America and is one of a few Americans who gives lectures in China to groups on topics of historical interest.. More recently Andy organized a company called “South Mountain China Tours” that offers unique itineraries and perspectives on East Asian Culture. The tours focus on art, history, flower culture, religious history, and other educational and cultural topics. Some of the tours visit and stay at famous Chinese religious monasteries and other places where participants learn about all aspects of Chinese Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism in situ. With his long-time friend Red Pine, Andy has photographed sites for virtually all the early Zen masters of the Chinese Chan tradition, from Bodhidharma down through many generations of teachers. He recently was the first American to attend the annual ceremony honoring Bodhidharma at his burial temple, Empty Form, in North China. Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=susan_watson Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=catharine_bramkamp Catharine Bramkamp lives in Sonoma County. She is a live long writer, her recent novel is Woman on the Verge of Wyoming. Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_hunter Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marta_romana_rodriguez Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michael_ruppert Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=angela_lam_turpin Angela Lam Turpin is a San Francisco Bay Area native. She studied journalism at Northwestern University as a Cherub scholar. She received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Sonoma State University. When she is not writing, she can be found painting landscapes with her daughter, pumping iron or running with her husband, or reading a book or listening to music with her son. Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=richard_okane Rear Admiral Richard Hetherington "Dick" O'Kane (February 2, 1911 -- February 16, 1994) was a United States Navy submarine commander in World War II, who received a Medal of Honor for his service on the USS Tang (SS-306). Having also served on the near legendary USS Wahoo (SS-238), as Executive Officer (XO) and 'Approach Officer', he participated (directly) in more successful attacks on Japanese shipping than any other fighting submarine officer during the war. Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=brian_boldt Brian Boldt served as an adjunct professor of English at Santa Rosa Junior College and edited the SRJC literary journal, Green Fuse. Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tom_negrino I'm Tom Negrino. I've been writing about Macs, other computers, and software since dinosaurs ruled the earth. OK, it's actually been since 1987. These days, I make my living writing books about computers and software. Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=amy_trussel Amy Trussell's work has been published in many periodicals including the following: Woman Of Power, ReVision, Mothering, Midwifery Today, The New Orleans Review, The Prague Revue. She also performs dance poetry in The Bay Area, Nashville, and New Orleans. Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=chip_wendt Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marge_frantz Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=hunce_voelker Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=donna_emerson Donna Emerson is a Santa Rosa Jr. College instructor, a licensed clinical social worker, photographer, and writer of poetry and prose. Recent poetry publications include The Place That Inhabits Us, Poems of the Bay Area Watershed, Phoebe, Eclipse, The Paterson Literary Review, Chopin With Cherries, A Tribute, and So To Speak, among many others. Recent prose and photography publications include Passager, Stone Canoe, and Tiny Lights, where she was awarded first prize in the 2010 Flash competition. Her first chapbook, This Water, was published in 2007. Her second chapbook, Body Rhymes, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009 and was nominated for the California Book Award. Finishing Line Press will publish her forthcoming chapbook, Wild Mercy, in October, 2011. Donna lives with her husband and daughter in Sonoma County, California, near her two adult sons and the water. Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_beckman David Beckman is a Santa Rosa poet and playwright, former New York professional actor and retired advertising writer. His books include Times Three, (2007) a book of poems, and Under Pegasus (1997) a novel about an ad executive whose life is changed when he encounters his ex-wife now homeless. David was nominated for the 2012 Pushcart Poetry Prize for a poem that appeared in a Marin poetry anthology. Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=james_m_dunn James Dunn holds a master s degree in organizational psychology and a bachelor s degree in writing, philosophy, psychology and mathematics. He has studied zen and Taoism, and meditated for more than 30 years, yet has no affiliation with a religion. He admits to more flaws than most people give him credit for. He is founder, editor and consultant for Julia's Jobs and Biz 101 North; His writing is practical, entertaining and heartfelt, honed by more than 12 years as magazine editor of NorthBay Biz.<br><br>Dunn s insights about transforming losses into spiritual gains come from tough personal experience and plenty of pain. He has lost both parents and many friends to death. Friends and family have struggled with alcohol, drugs and illness. He has lost two marriages and battled successfully for joint custody. Like most folks, he has suffered business and investment declines. <br><br>His background ranges into diet, exercise psychology and sustainable living. Through years of rock climbing, cycling and camping in Colorado, Dunn gained a profound connection to nature that guides his simple, clear approach. From nature he has received spiritual guidance and personal transformation to a rich now. Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jodi_hottel Jodi L. Hottel is a Sansei, third generation Japanese American. Her mother’s family was interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Nimrod International, Naugatuck Review, Spillway, Touch, English Journal, Frogpond and anthologies from the University of Iowa Press, Tebot Bach, Wising Up Press and the Healdsburg Arts Council. Jodi lives in Sonoma County, California. Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tolbert_mccarroll Tolbert McCarroll, "Brother Toby", is the author of eight books. He is a monk/parent at Starcross, a small monastic community in Sonoma County, California. A former attorney for human causes, he still frequently ventures forth in response to children in need. The adoptive father of two teenage children, he has established homes for children oppressed by the AIDS pandemic in California, Romania, and Uganda. Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=paige_braddock Paige Braddock graduated with a degree in Fine Art from the University of Tennessee. She worked as an illustrator for several newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune and The Atlanta Constitution, before accepting a position as Creative Director at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. As Creative Director, Paige works with the Schulz family members to oversee the art direction and editorial control for all Peanuts licensed product worldwide. Paige has also illustrated several Peanuts-themed children's books, including a pop-up book released by Simon and Schuster.<br><br>In 2001 Paige launched her own publishing company, Girl Twirl Comics, so that she could finally make her comic feature, Jane's World, available to comic shops and bookstores. Jane's World started as an online feature in the late 1990s, but was soon picked up for online distribution by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Now distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, daily installments of Jane's World appear on their GoComics website.<br><br> Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=guy_fieri The likeable laid back California “guy” with his trademark bleached blond spiky hair began his love affair with food at the age of ten, selling soft pretzels from a three-wheeled bicycle cart he built with his father named “The Awesome Pretzel.” By selling pretzels and washing dishes, Guy earned enough money in six years to study abroad as an exchange student in Chantilly, France. There he gained a profound appreciation for international cuisine and the lifestyle associated with it. After earning a degree in Hospitality Management from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Guy founded his first restaurant, Johnny Garlic's, in Santa Rosa, CA, with his business partner, Steve Gruber. He has since gone on to found two additional locations of Johnny Garlics and two locations of Tex Wasabi's. Guy has appeared; on television, written several food-related books, and taken a food and rock and roll show on the road to locations around the country. <br><br>Passionate about empowering today’s parents to include their children in the kitchen and educate them about eating healthy, Guy helped draft California state legislation proclaiming the 2nd Saturday in May annually as “Cook With Your Kids Day.” It was passed unanimously by the California State Legislature in 2009. Invited by the US Navy Team to cook at the White House in March 2010, Guy spoke to politicians about making this a nationally recognized holiday. In 2011, he officially launched CWK (Cooking With Kids) (www.cwkfoundation.org), a program that encourages developing healthy eating habits to address the childhood obesity crisis, strengthen the family unit by sharing quality time in the kitchen, and as a result increase our children’s self-esteem in a fun and positive way.<br><br>Guy lives in Northern California with his wife, Lori and two boys – Hunter and Ryder. Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lynn_freed Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=luther_burbank Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=william_forshay Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rebecca_louise_miller Miller, an actress and writer working in New York City, grew up in Sonoma County, where she was a student in the very first ArtQuest drama program at Santa Rosa High School. She went on to perform often on local stages--many still remember her in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, performed by Actors Theater in 1999--before moving to New York and marrying playwright David L. Epstein. She continues to act in plays and movies, most recently appearing in the television film Prayers for Bobby with Sigourney Weaver. Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=valerie_mathes Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_p_talbot John P. Talbot was born and raised in Santa Rosa, California and grew up with the stories and people of Bennett Valley, A graduate of the University of Oregon, he became a successful salesman in the securities industry, in which he is still active. A resident of Lodi, California since 1965, John is an avid student of California and western history. Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=penelope_la_montagne Penelope La Montagne is poet laureate emerita of Healdsburg, CA. (2004-2006). Penelope lives on the banks of the Russian River and has learned most of what she knows from watching the river, not pushing, not holding back. For six years, she was the producer of Morning Haiku for KRCB Radio in Sonoma County. She is a California Poet in the Schools, a local realtor, and author of River Shoes by Running Wolf Press and co-author of Fruit of Life, Poems of Passion and Politics, published by dpress. Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-05-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=melba_beals Beals was 13 years old when in May 1955, she chose to go to Central High school, an all-white school. Two years later, she was enrolled as a student at Central High. White students and some parents spat at and mocked the integrating students. The Nine also faced mobs that forced President Dwight D. Eisenhower to send in the 101st Airborne Division to protect their lives after the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, used troops to block the Nine's entry to the school. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sally_watson Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=susan_m_gaines Susan M. Gaines, the author of Best of the West (1992), Sacred Ground (1996), Carbon Dreams (2001), and co-author with Geoffrey Eglinton and Jurgen Rullkötter of Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History (2009). Her short stories have been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She got a MS from Scripps Institute of Oceanography. She worked as a Library Technician for the Sonoma County Library. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=katherine_rinehart Katherine J. Rinehart received her master's degree in History from Sonoma State University in 1994. For the past 18 years, Ms. Rinehart has worked in various positions within the fields of Cultural Resource Management and Historic Preservation and has been employed by the Sonoma County Library, where she works in the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Department, since 2002. Katherine is the author of Petaluma: A History in Architecture, a contributor to the Celebrating Petaluma published by the Petaluma Sesquicentennial Committee and the Petaluma Visitors Program. Ms. Rinehart is a regular contributor to the Argus Courier, has her own business specializing in historic research, writing, exhibit coordination and lecturing; was named Petaluma's Good Egg in 2007 and is past president of the Petaluma Museum Association. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sam_keen Sam Keen was, in his words, "over-educated at Harvard and Princeton" and was a professor of philosophy and religion at "various legitimate institutions" and a contributing editor of Psychology Today for 20 years before becoming a free-lance thinker, lecturer, seminar leader and consultant. He is the author of a baker's dozen books, and a co-producer of an award winning PBS documentary, Faces of the Enemy. His work was the subject of a 60 minute PBS special Bill Moyers--Your Mythic Journey with Sam Keen. Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=winslow_barbara Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_victor_luke Robert Luke, convicted of armed robbery, did time on Alcatraz from 1954 to 1959. He was known as Alcatraz Inmate No. 1118AZ. “I was convicted of bank robbery with an automatic weapon and was sent to Alcatraz for attempted escape from Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas,” said Luke, who lives in Northern California and is a National Park Service volunteer on The Rock. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=brent_eric_anderson Brent Anderson was born in San Jose, California. A child of the 50s, his favorite comics --on the rare occasions he was allowed to read them --were Archie, Stumbo the Giant, Hot Stuff, and Dennis the Menace. His mother favored classical children's literature. Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sarah_andrews Sarah Andrews is a geologist who writes mystery novels about a geologist. She was born twenty minutes to midnight in the middle of a thunder storm and has muddled through darkness punctuated by flashes of brilliance ever since. Sarah moved to California with the man she would marry--fellow geologist Damon Brown--and began to write the Em Hansen mysteries. As she refined the first books (Tensleep and A Fall in Denver, set in the oil business) she worked as an environmental geologist, gaining the experience to write Mother Nature. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lisa_michaels Lisa Michaels is the author of a memoir, Split: A Counterculture Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her first novel, Grand Ambition, was named a Los Angeles Times Best Book, one of Booklist's top ten first novels of 2001, and was nominated for a Bay Area Book Reviewers Association award in fiction. She has written for The Threepenny Review, Salon, Cond&#233; Nast Traveler, Tin House, and the New York Times Book Review. She lives in Northern California with her husband and twin sons. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=carolyn_kizer Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10, 1925) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. In 1959, she helped found Poetry Northwest and served as its editor until 1965. n the 1970s and 1980s, she held appointments as poet-in-residence or lecturer at universities across the country, has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events across the country. Kizer was also a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She divides her time between her home in Sonoma, California and her apartment in Paris. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=nick_alva Having lived in the Bay Area all of his life (born in Castro Valley in 1963 – a true child of the sixties – and living in Sonoma County since 1974), Nicholas Alva has been afforded the perfect perspective for the subject matter of MorningStar.<br><br>A graduate of Sonoma State University in History and a self-taught musician/composer, Nicholas has had tons of experience composing and performing, chiefly as co-founder of the music group, The Round, which performed and received radio play throughout Northern California in the 1990’s. Nicholas then moved into composing and recording for theatre: musicals, soundscapes and dance pieces – collaboration being the key. Using these experiences, Nicholas wrote this living history play with music and dance, which he actually did not intend to do. The subject floated into his hands and, due to certain events and conditions he ended up writing MorningStar, with the help of many of the original participants. But it all makes sense as the play is metaphysical, timeless, and open, with a life of its own. An archetypal manifestation of a true event, an echo which intends to vibrate anew, that is MorningStar.<br><br>Nicholas is also the founder of Alva Sound Art Studio, a collaborative group and the umbrella for Community Theatre At Large, which is producing the show. Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=pele_delappe DeLappe began her artistic career as a caricature artist in San Francisco. In the 1930s she became acquaintanced with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. She eventually wrote an autobiography entitled, "Pele: A Passionate Journey through Art and the Red Press." Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=paul_williams Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=margie_wilson Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lorna_drake Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christopher_schink Christopher Schink is an internationally known painter, author and instructor. Mr. Schink hold a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Stanford University and has studied privately with Rex Brandt, Edward Betts, and Barse Miller. Schink is an elected member of the National Watercolor Society and an Honorary Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Schink's paintings have been included in numerous national and international exhibitions including Watercolor USA, The National Watercolor Society Annuals, and Watercolor West. He has exhibited at one- and two-man shows at The Asheville, NC Museum, The Columbia, SC Museum, and The Jackson, MS Municipal Art Gallery. His paintings are in many private and corporate collections.<br><br>Mr. Schink has conducted workshops in 45 states in the U.S. as well as classes in Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Europe. He has served as juror for over 40 state, regional, national, and international exhibitions. Schink is the author of several popular books and the co-editor of the quarterly publication The Palette Magazine. His work has been featured in many books and magazines including The American Artist, The Artists' Magazine, and International Artist.<br><br>With his colleagues Skip Lawrence, Katherine Chang Liu, Alex Powers, Fran Larsen, Topher teaches the Intensive Studies Workshop in Taos New Mexico, each spring. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=armando_garcia-davila Armando Garcia-Dàvila was named Healdburg's Literary Laureate for the year 2002-2003 adding to his distinction as Poet Laureate of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Sonoma County. A landscape contractor by profession, Armando started writing in 1990 - an impassioned letter to a dear friend who was killed in VietNam. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat ran the letter as an OpEd piece entitled "Vow to a Fallen Comrade." When the war ended, he continued writing. Referring to himself as a "blue collar poet" Garcia-Dàvila's literary life today consists of readings at cafés, bookstores, libraries, and radio stations along with presentations at elementary, middle, and high schools. Garcia-Dàvila's short stories and poems are a monthly feature in La Voz bilingual newspaper and can be found at libraries and various newsstands in 12 Northern California counties. In addition to organizing and leading "poetry slams," Garcia-Dàvila gives seminars at colleges and universities. As a featured presenter for the Arts and Lecture Series at Santa Rosa Junior College, he has demonstrated to ESL students of varying nationalities the art and craft of "building" a poem. He was also invited to be a feature presenter for the Dia de Los Muertos celebration at the Petaluma campus of SRJC. Garcia-Dàvila is enormously effective with all his audiences, he especially enjoys seeing youngsters suddenly wake up to the power and satisfaction that comes with letting buried thoughts see the light of day in the form of poetry and prose. He has had much the same experience in his volunteer work with inmates of San Quentin State Penitentiary in a program designed to assist them in their rehabilitation. Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rodolfo_larios Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=melanie_thorne Melanie Thorne earned her MA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Davis, where she was awarded the Alva Englund Fellowship and the Maurice Prize in fiction. She was a resident at the Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat in 2011, and her work has appeared in various journals, including The Greenbelt Review and Global City Review. She has spent the last few years copywriting and teaching community college composition classes. Her long list of other jobs includes teaching test prep and ESL, executive assisting the CEO of a Palo Alto mortgage brokerage firm, and Subway sandwich artist-ing. Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joseph_pahls Joseph Pahls was born in Portsmouth, N.H., on February 12, 1911, but grew up in the northeastern part of Ohio. Always restless in his younger years, he became a wanderer, being at times a hobo, a cook, a cowboy, an oilfield roustabout, a seaman, and in later years a machinist and then a chain store manager. He lived in Graton. His poems and vignettes cover a wide spectrum. He was a member of the Russian River Writers' Guild and Poets of the Vineyards. Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=phyllis_grabe Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=eris_weaver Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=hale_thatcher Hale Thatcher has been a recipient of fellowships at Dorland, Ragdale, and Stanford, and has been active in presenting poetry in multi-media environments using music, at the Museum of Modern Art, Intersection, the Art Institute, the Palace of the Legion of Honor and Grace Cathedral. He has also organized Native American benefit events for the purpose of improving Indian treaty rights. Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=fred_abercrombie Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jenn_sterling Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tim_stafford Tim Stafford is a freelance writer and Senior Writer for Christianity Today Magazine. He's written more than twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction. He loves to run, backpack, follow the Oakland A's, and most of all read. He's currently working on a novel set in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_bromige Known for his avant-garde style and razor wit, David Bromige was considered part of the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the late 1960s and early '70s. Bromige was born in London, the son of a newsreel operator, and survived the German blitzkrieg there during World War II. He immigrated to Canada to live near his sister in Vancouver, earning an undergraduate degree in English from University of British Columbia. He then won a scholarship to UC Berkeley, where he earned a master's degree in English. He began teaching at Sonoma State in 1970 and stayed for 23 years. Bromige published more than 40 books of poetry and won dozens of awards, including a Western States Arts Federation award in 1988 for his collection "Desire." He was also Sonoma County's second poet laureate, serving from 2001 to 2003. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marsh_rose Cloverdale author Marsh Rose moved to Sonoma County from Massachusetts in 1968. A psychotherapist and freelance writer, her short stories have appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine, Salon.Com, the San Francisco Chronicle and Sunday Examiner, Carve Magazine and the Redwood Coast Review. Lies And Love In Alaska is her first book-length work. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=christian_lane Christian Lane is a wine professional originally from western New York. He has a diverse in arts, science and business. He grew up as an award-winning classical & jazz trombonist and organic farmer with an early opportunity to implement Integrated Pest Management. He earned a BS in audio engineering from the State University of New York. His work entailed discovery in several capacities medical reference lab informatics, satellite television analog-to-digital technology transitions, studio recording and large-scale sound system automation. He pursued an MBA at the University of Utah and became more interested in process and form. He supported the arts as a performer and benefactor, growing with the culture around him. He grew with the Internet as a self-taught web designer. He’s published a few books and has developed a rich involvement in the arts as a benefactor and spoken word artist, once performing for the NAACP in an amphitheatre. Since 2004, he has created several wine projects, one of them an award-winning Simple Math Cellars which operates primarily by mailing list and offers private labels and special projects for the US and Swedish governments. He has consulted for wine companies (startup, strategy, compliance) in the Alexander, Napa, Dry Creek and Silicon Valleys. He also builds and modifies fine wine collections, judges wine competitions, educates and writes. He’s affiliated with several African-American business associations, has held board positions and supports several charities. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ray_anderson Ray is an ordained minister in the United Centers for Spiritual Living, an organization based on the teachings of Ernest Holmes. Throughout his life, he has studied philosophy and several religious faiths including: Christianity Buddhism Hinduism Taoism Judaism He currently resides in Santa Rosa, California where he enjoys spending time with his grandchildren and hiking. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michelle_minero Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=willard_l_johnson Willard L. Johnson was a prolific writer for ihs Real Estate trade magazines and journals and wrote many spiritual materials for his Sunday School classes. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=emilio_gonzalez-llanez Emilio Gonzalez-Llanes, was born and raised in Ybor City. A third generation Cuban-American, he began writing fiction and poetry at age sixty. He’s lived in California since 1963 and earned his MBA from USC. In 1995 he produced a four-part television series for PBS on Qigong for Health. His stories and poems have appeared in: The Noe Review, Bust Out Stories, Blithe House Quarterly, Redwood Coast Review. Today, he lives in Santa Rosa, California, where he teaches Tai Chi and Qigong, paints watercolors, and writes. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jl_jusaitis Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=shirley_zindler Shirley Zindler is an animal control officer in Northern California. She lives with her husband and children and numerous rescued pets. She writes for an animal shelter newsletter, blogs for Bark Magazine and is working on a second book about her life with animals. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ruth_v_murray Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michael_llewellyn Michael Llewellyn is the author of fourteen published books under various pen names in the genres of historical fiction, adventure, time travel, contemporary fiction, historical romance and nonfiction travel. A native of Fountain City, Tennessee, Michael comes from a long line of Southern writers and memoirists. His maternal grandmother was a published novelist, and his maternal grandfather was a Methodist minister who penned powerfully literate sermons. His mother, a kindergarten teacher, wrote children's stories, and a cousin, James Agee, won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, A Death in the Family. Michael lived in New York's Greenwich Village twenty years, working as an advertising copywriter by day and writing novels in his spare time. In the '70s he published four historical romances under the name Maggie Lyons before relocating to the French Quarter where his passion for New Orleans and its history led to a travel book, Edge Guide: New Orleans. Itwas followed by Twelfth Night, a historical novel delving into the dark side of 1857 haute Creole society and the exotic caste system of the free people of color. The New Orleans Times-Picayune called it "the gilded bean in your carnival king cake." His latest book, Creole Son, focuses on French painter Edgar Degas and a turbulent 1872 visit to his New Orleans family which deeply impacted his artistic style. It will be followed in 2013 by Goat Castle: Murder and Madness in Mississippi, a fictionalized account of a sensational unsolved 1932 crime in Natchez, Mississippi. Michael lives in the California Wine Country, where he is working on a historical novel about Storyville, New Orleans' infamous red light district. Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=janelle_dietrick Janelle Dietrick graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in European History. She is a self-taught baker and has won a number of prizes for her short stories. She was the owner and creator of Bijoux Cupcakes from 2009 through 2012. She lives with her family in Petaluma, California. - See more at: http://www.diaryofacupcakeshop.com/bio/#sthash.cI6RrLoH.dpuf Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=helen_sedwick Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=stephen_pizzo Stephen Pizzo is the author of numerous books, including Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, which was nominated for a Pulitzer.subscribe to Stephen Pizzo's rss feed Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=richard_denner Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mary_jane_campbell Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=austin_peter_moss Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=edwin_markham Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon and was the youngest of 10 children. At the age of four, he moved to Lagoon Valley, an area northeast of San Francisco; there, he lived with his sister and mother. In 1872 he graduated from San Jose State Normal School, and in 1873 finished his studies of classics at Christian College in Santa Rosa. Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gordon_grabe Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bob_albert Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=buzzy_martin Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Buzzy taught himself to play the guitar and piano at the age of 13. At the age of 15, he performed with his first band as the lead singer, playing guitar and keyboards. Buzzy has been making his dream real, one step at a time. After graduating from high school there were the traveling cover bands, steadily touring the Midwest from Michigan to Florida. In 1979, he moved to northern California. An established professional who loves the music he shares, Buzzy Martin is living proof of the rewards of following one's childhood dreams and is now the author of Don't Shoot! I'm the Guitar Man. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_london American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life" He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss. Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=glenn_keator Glenn Keator is a botanist, teacher, and writer specializing in California native plants. He teaches at several venues around the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written several books, including two other Uiversity of California Press titles: Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region, and Designing California Native Gardens (co-authored with Alrie Middlebrook). Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=susan_kennedy Susan Kennedy has been a poet/teacher with California Poets In The Schools for twenty-eight years. She has had poetry residencies in thirty-three elementary, middle, and high schools in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa Counties. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Rochester and a M.A. in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her poetry has appeared in dozens of literary journals, and she has read widely in the Bay Area. A poetry chapbook with poet Mike Tuggle, Cazadero Poems was published by floating Island Publications in 1994. Her first solo book of poetry, Dancing With The Dog, was published by Philos Press in 2004. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Eskisehir, Turkey where she developed a lifelong love of Middle Eastern music and dance. She lives on a small West Sonoma County farm with her family. Recently she has had poetry residencies at Fort Ross School, Spring Creek School, Sheppard Accelerated-School, and St. Helena Catholic School. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rosie_mcgee Photographer, traveler and story teller Rosie McGee was born in Paris of French parents, immigrating to U.S. at 5. She was raised in San Francisco with older sister. She started taking photos at age of 11 and never stopped. McGee came of age in North Beach and Haight-Ashbury in worlds of theater, folk music, coffee houses, and rock shows, then spent the next two decades living and working in Bay Area rock music scene. She pursued various "day-job" career ranging from multimedia producer to final arrangement contract typist at a funeral home. She's traveled from Germany to Bali, Canada to Mexico, Malaysia to Denmark, Nepal to Belgium, on a shoestring when on her own, but more comfortably when work-related. She had a son in 1980 while living in a boatyard in Sausalito, California. She moved to Oregon in 1991, then to Arizona early 2003, but has lived back in the Bay Area since 2010. Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gaye_lebaron Gaye LeBaron wrote her first column for The Press Democrat in 1959, after several years as a reporter. She co-authored with Dee Blackman, Harvey Hansen and Joann Mitchell, Santa Rosa, a 19th Century Town, and with Joann Mitchell, Santa Rosa, a 20th Century Town. She taught Sonoma County history in SRJC and at SSU's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She is married to photographer John LeBaron Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lee_torliatt I was born in Petaluma in 1933. I have spent my life in newspaper work and teaching, starting as a sports reporter for the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat in the late 1940s. I also worked at Stars and Stripes in Tokyo, the S.F. Chronicle and the Press Democrat. From 1964 to 1993, I taught social science and English at Santa Rosa and Piner High Schools. I have been editor of the Sonoma County Historian the last six years plus. Writings include Golden Memories of the Redwood Empire, Sports History of Sonoma County and Historic Photos of Sonoma County. I went to Santa Rosa JC, San Francisco State and UC, Berkeley where I acquired a master's degree. Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-11T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alan_eshleman Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ken_mansfield Ken Mansfield is a Grammy Award-winning record producer, former U.S. Manager of Apple Records, a high-ranking executive for several record labels, songwriter and the author of three books. Since the 1960s, Mansfield has been associated with an array of notable performers including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Waylon Jennings, James Taylor, Roy Orbison, Don Ho, the Imperials, Tompall Glaser, Harry Nilsson, Glen Campbell, Buck Owens, Lou Rawls, Andy Williams, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Eric Burdon, Badfinger, Ray Stevens, Jackie Lomax, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Dolly Parton, David Cassidy, Nick Gilder, Claudine Longet and Jessi Colter. In the 1970s, he helped popularize the Outlaw movement in country music by producing Waylon Jennings' top-selling album, Are You Ready for the Country as well as the crossover hit "I’m Not Lisa" by Jessi Colter. In 2000, the former record executive-turned-producer embarked on a literary career with The Beatles, The Bible and Bodega Bay. His follow-up, The White Book - The Beatles, the Bands, the Biz: An Insider's Look at an Era, was released in 2007. Mansfield's third book, Between Wyomings, published by Thomas Nelson, was released in 2009. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-10T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=sally_hayton-keeva Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=angeles_arrien Angeles Arrien, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist, award-winning author, educator, and consultant to many organizations and businesses. Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-09T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ken_rodgers Ken Rodgers teaches and writes in Boise, Idaho. He has chased sheep across the desert, chased the enemy through the jungles of southeast Asia, run the head gate to capture cattle, pounded the keys of a calculator, pounded the keys of a typewriter, peddled mountain real estate, and tailed off recycled redwood at a finishing mill. An award-winning author, Ken explores the region where poetry and prose meet. Along with his wife, Betty, he was a founding member of the Literary Arts Council of the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in Sebastopol. Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dwyer_ann Ann Dwyer has taught many, many canoe and kayak classes, and lead innumerable trips, both day and river overnight camping. Ann has developed new products for paddling, (Dragonfly Designs), designed her own kayaks; (Kiwi Kayaks), founded the Mart Canoe Club and Kopapa Kayak Club. and chaired the Canoe Subcommittee for Sierra Club National Outings. She's the author of "Canoeing Waters of California" and "Have A Happy Day Canoeing." Ann has personally paddled more than 4,000 miles in preparation for her book, Ann Dweyer's Easy Waters of California--North Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-08T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_g_evans Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=georgia_green_fowler Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-07T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=garry_gay Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bethany_argisle Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-06T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=timothy_williams Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=julie_forest_middleton Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-05T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jim_dodge Jim Dodge (born 1945) is an American novelist and poet whose works combine themes of folklore and fantasy, set in a timeless present. He has published three novels, Fup, Not Fade Away and Stone Junction and a collection of poetry and prose, Rain on the River. Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=william_wrench Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-04T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jane_kennedy_stuppin San Francisco native Jane Kennedy Stuppin is the author of the poetry collections "But I Say" and "Perfect Pitch," and two short story collections, "A Toast to Reason," and "The Bay Round About." Stuppin lives in Sonoma County among redwood trees and wild turkeys with her artist husband Jack Stuppin. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=susan_m_clark Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-03T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alexandra_ellen_appel Alexandra Ellen Appel: Gaia's daughter / born in NYC immigrated to Sonoma County / tear gassed with the best in 1960's Berkeley / writing to make the planet a better place since. Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=hamilton_tyler Hamilton A. Tyler attended the University of California and makes his home in Healdsburg, California, where he raises prunes. He says of himself that he is "studiously interested in a number of fields-no less in Milton, biology, ornamental horticulture, and Greek civilization than in Pueblo culture. I like to think of myself in the tradition of the English scholarly amateurs, often country divines." Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-02T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_g_dodd David Dodd is a California native, born and raised in Livermore, who has lived in Petaluma since 1999. He is a librarian, and the author and maintatiner of the Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics website, since 1995. Besides writing about the Grateful Dead, he is also a musician and songwriter and a poet and translator. He is married to Diana Spaulding, with whom he has co-edited The Grateful Dead Reader. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=margery_wolf Margery Wolf, nee Jones, was born and raised in Santa Rosa. She knew the orchards of Sonoma County well, picking prunes, hops and apples until she graduated to the drying sheds. At 19 she left to see the world. She lived in New York, North Carolina, Iowa, England, Taiwan, China, and wandered through many other places. She became an anthropologist, doing research in Taiwan and China, taught at Duke and finally at University of Iowa (for 20 years). She retired and headed home in 2001. She now lives happily just over the hill from where she grew up with the love of her life, Mac Marshall, their dog Zack and cat Emma. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-04-01T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=edward_spalding_lippit Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=cathy_wild Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-31T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=denny_sternberg Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mike_tuggle Mike Tuggle has lived in Cazadero in western Sonoma County since 1981. He was the recipient of a Sonoma Community Foundation Award in poetry, a Dickens Award in fiction, and the Oberon Poetry Prize. He is the author of Cazadero Poems, a chapbook with the poet Susan Kennedy, and two full-length collections, Absolute Elsewhere and The Singing Itself. He was the poet laureate of Sonoma County for 2008-2009. Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-30T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gerald_haslam Gerald W. Haslam was born in Bakersfield, raised in Oildale in California's Great Central Valley, the setting of most of his books. Much of his writing, starting with a series of pieces for The Nation four decades ago, has sought to bring his native state's image more into line with its reality. He has particularly celebrated California's rural and small town areas, its poor and working class people of all colors, to explore the human condition. He wrote in the Introduction to Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free, "no matter what our color or sex, we have more uniting than separating us. What is most important is that we are all members of the human family." Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=janis_flores Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-29T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=batja_cates As President of the Healdsburg Arts Council, Batja Cates originated and produced the first Sonoma County Literary Performing Arts Festival, Sonoma Word, in 2007. Sonoma Word was conceived in response to The Community Foundation's Annual Report, which excluded the Literary Arts in its offer of grants to the Performing Arts community. It was created in parallel with the Sonoma County Arts Council's Performance Sonoma event of the same year, with the joint theme: "Crossing Borders." Sonoma Word featured events in eleven towns, crossing borders of literature, art, dance, theater, improvisation and music, as well as nationalities. Healdsburg JHS students explored the Mexican border, crossing grades, subjects and cultures in a huge celebration of the arts. The Healdsburg Senior Center's autobiography writers did a reading, thus crossing age borders as well. Featured were such luminaries as The Kensington Ladies and Healdsburg Poet Laureates Vilma Ginzburg and Doug Stout, who performed with Batja and poet David Beckman in their poetry improvisation group, RoadWriters. Sonoma County Literary Laureate Geri DiGiorno presented her annual Petaluma Poetry Walk and the poetry group QuillPenInk created the first Guerneville Poetry Walk.Batja is also a stand-up poet, doing poetry improvisation at The Healdsburg Center Literary Cafe, which she originated and hosted for five years, as well as at The Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Mamalanda, Coffee Catz, Silver Mine Co., The French Garden, and other venues. She has been a popular emcee for Healdsburg literary events, as well as for The Peace or War Wall celebration at Paradise Ridge Winery featuring its creator, Deborah LeSueuer and author Maxine Hong Kingston with writers from her war veterans group. Local poets Shepherd Bliss, David Beckman, percussionist Kim Atkinson and dancers were also featured. Batja is the author of The Fabrication of Myth and other Healdsburg BizTales, the model for the Healdsburg JHS book of BizTales, which was featured in the Business section of the Press Democrat. The students gave two public readings and donated the proceeds of sales of their book to the Animal Shelter at the Healdsburg Chil Cook-off. Batja is one of the original members of the Healdsburg Literary Guild. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gay_hannum Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-28T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=chuck_sher Chuck Sher is the founder of Sher Music and creator of The New Real Book series. He lives in Petaluma. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tony_kendrew Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-27T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=phyllis_neumann Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=david_mechling Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-26T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mfk_fisher Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marianne_ware The late Marianne Ware retired from teaching English and Creative Writing at Santa Rosa Junior College. She received her MFA degree from Vermont College in 1984 and began a twenty-year teaching career at SRJC. She was a founder of the Russian River Writers’ Guild and fostered its twenty-five-year-long reading series, the first literary venue in Sonoma County. She published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in more than a hundred literary magazines, anthologies and tabloids.She was known as the "grand madame of belles lettres, the epistolary packin' momma and mentor of countless Sonoma County writers." Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-25T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alastair_johnston Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tim_oreilly Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Tim graduated from Harvard College in 1975 with a B.A. cum laude in classics. His honors thesis explored the tension between mysticism and logic in Plato's dialogues. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-24T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=randy_shilts Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951-February 17, 1994) was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations. Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_l_fischer Robert Fischer, a Marine during the Korean War and was a furniture manufacturer and restaurant-cocktail lounge entrepreneur in San Francisco. He flew his own helicopter, was invited to fly for the Rhodesian Army and flew for a Senator in the Philippines during the President Marcos period. Fischer lived in Australia for ten years where he developed real estate, operated restaurants and ice cream parlors and married his German-born wife, Helga. Returning to America he sold desalination equipment in Arabia, Australia and the Polynesian Islands. Finally, settled in Santa Rosa, CA, he has kept himself busy developing real estate and writing five books. Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-23T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alan_carner Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=geoffrey_skinner Geoffrey Skinner is a librarian with the Sonoma County Library and author of several chapbooks of poetry, including Zoo Stew, a children's story in rhyme illustrated by Joan Schwan. For the past several years, he has written primarily for a number of blogs. He also leads walking tours with <a href="http://sebastopolwalks.org">Sebastopol Walks</a> and is currently working on a walking guide to Sebastopol. He is an emeritus member of the Spilt Ink writer's group and a <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~bkunde/spilt-ink/wg-m-gsbib.html">bibliography</a> of his works can be found on the Spilt Ink website. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=lynn_hay_rudy Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=theresa_ann_brazil Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gabriel_a_fraire Gabriel A. Fraire was born in East Chicago, Indiana, in the part of town known as “The Harbor.” It was the Mexican barrio that was adjacent to the steel mills. Fraire grew up urban, ethnic and working class. All his family and friends were steel workers and he too spent several years working the steel mills. Fraire had his first short story published in 1973 and a year later his first non-fiction article. In 1974 he wrote his first novel: "Latino Jesse" an autobiographical fiction novel about growing up in a steel mill town, a Mexican-American and being neither Mexican nor American. In 1975 he began working as a journalist and in 1986 accepted the position as Editor of The Windsor Times, in Windsor, California. During this time he had his first book published: "Windsor the Birth of a City," a non-fiction record of how Windsor went from an unincorporated area to cityhood. This book was followed by: "I Remember Healdsburg," a collection of historic memories from residents of Healdsburg, Ca. and "Daddy I Need to Go Potty" a humorous look at the life of a dad with two young daughters, ages 2 and 6 written while his daughters were 2 and 6. After resigning his editor's job Fraire began working full-time as a graphic designer but continued to write and wrote two plays, with his brother John: "Who Will Dance With Pancho Villa" and "Cesar Died Today" both successfully produced in New York City. They also wrote the story and screenplay, "Stories of the Seasons" as part of the Kalamazoo Valley Museum Mexican American History Project. This was a planetarium presentation. Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-22T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jeanne_modesitt Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=margaret_murray Margaret Murray was born at Mercy Hospital looking over the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Carnegie- Mellon University and Hunter College. After a stint as a flower child of the 60s, she attended the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center on an American Federation of the Arts fellowship and the Squaw Valley Screenwriters Conference on a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A writer and teacher, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area "since forever." Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-21T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=daniel_imhoff Dan Imhoff is a researcher, author, and independent publisher who has concentrated for nearly 20 years on issues related to farming, the environment, and design. He is the author of numerous articles, essays, and books including CAFO: The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories; Food Fight: The Citizen’s Guide to a Food and Farm Bill; Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World; Farming with the Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity on Farms and Ranches; and Building with Vision: Optimizing and Finding Alternatives to Wood. Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=holbrook_teter Holbrook Teter was a renowned humanitarian who championed the victims of poverty, torture and political oppression for more than 40 years in the Bay Area as a social worker and community activist. He often opened his Healdsburg home to refugees and the homeless and sponsored retreats and seminars there for humanitarian groups. In his spare time, he played the piano, clarinet and accordion. Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marylu_mattson Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-20T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jonathan_london Jonathan London started writing poetry in his late teens. Although he received a Masters Degree in Social Sciences and never formally studied literature or creative writing, he began to consider himself a "writer" about the time he graduated from college. After college he became a dancer in a modern dance company and worked at numerous low-paying jobs as a laborer or counselor. However, during this twenty-year period, London continued to write. He wrote poems and short stories for adults, earning next to nothing despite being published in many literary magazines. "It wasn't until I had kids of my own that I became a writer for children," he explains. "It all started with telling them stories when they were very young. I wrote down one of these stories, and it became The Owl Who Became the Moon, my first picture book sale (though it was my fourth to appear in print). Now I am finally making a living as a writer. A dream come true!" Born a "Navy brat" in Brooklyn, New York, Jonathan was raised on Naval stations throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Today he lives with his wife, Maureen, and their two sons, Aaron and Sean, in rural Northern California where they like to backpack in the summer, play in the snow in winter-and dance all year around. Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=newton_dal_poggetto Newton Dal Poggetto is a fourth generation Californian and a third generation native of Sonoma. He is a former judge and successful trial attorney. He has published two novels and has now created a fictional visitation of stories of people of the past Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kenneth_kann Kenneth Kann is a historian who has written two books on Jewish-American history: Joe Rapoport, the Life of a Jewish Radical (Temple University Press, 1981) and Comrades and Chicken Ranchers, the Story of a California Jewish Community (Cornell University Press, 1993). Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-19T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bill_vartnaw Vartnaw's first poem was published in Paper Pudding in 1972, a Sonoma County literary magazine. Moved to San Francisco in 1973, was one of the original members of the Bay Area Poets Coalition in 1974 and helped create their Summer Solstice & Autumn Equinox Poetry Festivals where over 200 poets read their work. Established Taurean Horn Press in 1974 and has published a number of his own works as well as that of other writers. Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=vanna_parrish_lawson Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-18T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_ash Many refer to Chef John Ash as the Father of Wine Country Cuisine". In 1980 he opened his namesake restaurant, John Ash & Company, in Santa Rosa, CA. It was the first restaurant in Northern California wine country to focus on local, seasonal ingredients used to create dishes that complemented the wines being made in the region. Ash has co-hosted a radio show on KSRO (AM-1350) for 26 years and has hosted two television shows. He is the author of 3 books." Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_schubert A native San Franciscan, John Schubert has been a River Community historian since 1960. Has written many short histories for the Sonoma County Historical Society, and he had a column in several local papers called "Stumptown Stories." He is the author of "Guerneville Early Days," and is a Charter member of Russian River Historical Society and Sonoma County Historical Society and one of its past presidents Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-17T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=belva_davis As the first black female TV journalist in the West, Belva Davis helped change the face and focus of TV news. Now she is sharing the story of her extraordinary life in her spellbinding memoir, Never in My Wildest Dreams. As literary luminary Maya Angelou observed, "No people can say they understand the times in which they have lived unless they have read this book." Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-16T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=anandi_devi Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=michele_anna_jordan Michele Anna Jordan writes three popular columns about food and wine in The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, is a regular contributor to Savor Wine County magazine and The Wine Enthusiast and has written nearly 20 books to date. She hosts two radio shows, "Mouthful, the Wine Country’s Most Delicious Hour" and "Red Shoes Rodeo." Michele worked as a chef for many years and was a restaurant critic, including for the San Francisco Chronicle, for fifteen years. She has won numerous awards for both her cooking and her writing, including a James Beard Award. Currently, she writes full time, teaches, cooks for family and friends and studies traditional Hawaiian dance. She is at work on several new books. Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-15T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=barb_stuckey Barb spent her formative years in a Chinese restaurant her best friend’s parents owned in suburban Baltimore. There she absorbed a love of the restaurant business through the pores of her skin as she did the sweet, oil-born aroma of fried eggrolls and shrimp toast. She pursued a career in the food service industry after college, earning a graduate degree from Cornell University's Hotel School along the way. Barb is currently Executive Vice President of Marketing & Sales at Mattson, the country’s largest independent developer of foods and beverages for the chain restaurant and retail foods industries. Barb is known as a food trend, innovation, consumer insights, and product development expert.<br><br>Throughout her career, Barb has written articles for journals such as The Morning Cup, an industry newsletter distributed to 6000+ food industry executives, and Culinary Currents, the newsletter of the Research Chefs Association. She’s also written opinion pieces for the San Francisco Chronicle and a Q&A column for Chow Magazine (now Chow.com). Barb’s daily job at Mattson requires her to taste food and figure ou t how to make it better. After more than a decade of doing this, she’s honed her tasting skills and her ability to help others make food taste better. She’ll be sharing this insight with the world when her first book called Taste What You’re Missing is published in March, 2012. It will be the first book about th e science of taste that’s written for the general public.<br><br>Barb lives with her fiancé and splits her time between San Francisco and Healdsburg, in the heart of Sonona wine country. Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=prue_draper Prue Draper is Cotati's long-time historian. She and her late husband, Lloyd, who owned The Cotatian weekly newspaper from 1951 to 1965, collected Cotati historic documents, artifacts, and memorabilia for over 50 years, hoping that some day the city would have an appropriate place to store and display them, and make them available to the public. As various organizations in town disbanded, they entrusted their records and artifacts to the Drapers with the understanding that they would be appropriately preserved. They established the Cotati Historical Society in 2007, and helped create the Cotati Museum in 2009. Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-14T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mavis_jukes Mavis Jukes was born in Nyack, New York, and grew up in New York City; Princeton, New Jersey; and Berkeley, California. She attended the University of Colorado, where she studied art; the University of California, where she studied education; and Golden Gate University, where she studied law. She is a member of the California Bar Association and has volunteered as a juvenile defense attorney. Jukes was an elementary school teacher and an art specialist in the late 1960s and early 1970s and recently returned to public education. She writes books for children and young adults and teaches leadership, writing, drawing, and human interactions. She lives in the country in Northern California with her husband, artist Robert Hudson, and two teenage daughters. She has written many books for children, including Expecting the Unexpected, It's a Girl Thing, Blackberries in the Dark, I'll See You in My Dreams, It's a Guy Thing, and Like Jake and Me, for which she won a Newbery Honor. Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dianne_gonnella_naber Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-13T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joy_wilt_berry Joy Berry is an educator, parenting expert and child-development specialist who began writing self-help books for children more than 30 years ago when she couldn't find books that matched her philosophy of raising responsible children. Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mariam_stephens Mariam Stephens was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has traveled extensively and has lived in England, Ireland, Java, Indonesia, California, and Hawaii. She currently resides in Sonoma County. Writing has occupied a steady place throughout the years, countries and circumstances of her life. Her books include Healings and Safe Passage Notebooks. Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700 2012-03-12T00:00:00-07:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_crumley Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-11T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_hauff Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-11T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=carol_venolia Carol Venolia is a Northern California architect and educator who has been involved with ecological building for over thirty years. Her latest book, Natural Remodeling for the Not-So-Green House: Bringing Your Home into Harmony with Nature (with Kelly Lerner), is a beautiful, practical guide to bringing existing homes into harmony with nature. Named a Green Design Trailblazer by Natural Home Magazine, she has designed numerous context-responsive homes of straw, earth, and "good wood" and consulted on greening schools, healing centers, camps, and eco-villages. Her first book, Healing Environments: Your Guide to Indoor Well-Being, advocates restoring the vital connections between humans and the rest of the living world. Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-10T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tom_sharp Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-10T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jonah_raskin Jonah Raskin lives in Santa Rosa and is the author of fourteen books, many of them about Sonoma County and northern California. These books include: Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking Wine in California; and Marijuanaland: Dispatches from an American War. He is the editor of The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution. He has also written a book about local writers entitled Natives, Newcomers, Exiles, Fugitives: Northern California Writers and Their Work. From 1981 to 2011, he taught in the communication studies and the English departments at Sonoma State University and published biographies of Abbie Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, both from the University of California Press. He is the author of six poetry chapbooks. The most recent is Rock 'n' Roll Women: Portraits of A Generation. Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-09T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dallyce_sand Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-09T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=carl_inglin Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-08T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=james_miller Jim Miller was born and raised in Pasadena. While he was a student in landscape design, his parents divoced, then both committed suicide. He purchased the Garden Creek Ranch in the Alexander Valley in June 1963, was married there to Berit Maud Inger Bertilson and has been there ever since, raising sheep, cattle and then grapes, fruit and vegetables. For almost as long, Miller has been writing poems and, after studying with Answel Adams in Yosemite, taking photographs. He is the author of four books of verse, the latest, “Going Off the Pavement,” published in 2012. Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-08T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=marsha_sinetar Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-07T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=william_l_beedie Wed, 07 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-07T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alla_crone Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-06T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mary_bowen_hall Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-06T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=duane_elgin Duane Elgin, MBA and MA is an internationally recognized, visionary speaker and author. His books include: Voluntary Simplicity, The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, and Awakening Earth. In 2006, Duane received the international “Goi Peace Award” in recognition of his contribution to a global “vision, consciousness, and lifestyle” that fosters a “more sustainable and spiritual culture.” Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-05T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=joel_rudinow A scholar and a musician, Dr. Joel Rudinow teaches Philosophy and Humanities at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he also produces the Evolution of the Blues Concerts, the Music for the Soul Concerts, and the Roots & Branches of American and World Music Concerts. He plays keyboards in several roots music bands in northern California, including his own band, Rude Notes Galore . Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-05T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=karen_petersen Karen Petersen is a librarian at the Mahoney Library, Santa Rosa Junior College, Petaluma Campus. She is a founding board member of the Petaluma Arts Center. Ms. Petersen is active in the arts county-wide including the Sonoma County Book Festival, the Literary Arts Guild and the Sitting Room, a community-based library in Cotati. Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-04T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_digitale For three decades, Robert Digitale has been a newspaper reporter in Santa Rosa, California. More recently he published his first novel, HORSE STALKER, and he conceived and edited SONOMA SQUARES MURDER MYSTERY, a novella by 16 different writers that appeared in 2012 in the pages of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. As a reporter, Robert has been trounced at tennis by the late "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, and has had President Barack Obama then a U.S. senator put a hand on Robert's back in order to prevent a collision. He still has the historic sports coat. His assignments have included education, City Hall, real estate and agriculture. While covering education, Robert wrote award-winning stories on the growing ethnic segregation in Santa Rosa public schools, as well as on the small number of Latino high school graduates from Sonoma County that have completed all the preparatory classes needed to enter four-year colleges. He is the host of The Press Democrat blog, <a href="http://digitalestories.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/">Digitale Stories</a>. Robert and his wife Carol have their own publishing business: Franklin Park Press. They have three daughters living in Chicago, New York City and London. Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-04T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jack_burton Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-03T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=nelson_r_kellogg Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-03T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=gerald_n_hill Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-02T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=charles_j_johnson Dr. Charles J. Johnson grew up in the orchard and vineyard country of Northern California and attended Santa Rosa High School, the setting for flashbacks to the early years of Reunion Promise. Graduate degrees in geology (University of California, Riverside) and mineral economics (Penn State) provided him with the credentials to pursue his passion for adventures to 65 countries spanning the globe -- Africa, Europe, the Americas, South Pacific Islands, Australia and Asia. He published more than 50 professional papers, proceedings and books, before turning to his passion - adventure-romance writing. Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-02T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kathy_biggs Kathy Biggs has been a nature lover all her life. As a child she traipsed through the fields and hills around her homes in the Bay Area, enjoyed camping outings, collected insects, and tried unsuccessfully to catch birds by shaking salt on their tails. After she married she and her husband became birders, first joining Mt. Diablo Audubon and then after they moved, Madrone Audubon in Santa Rosa. But it was when she and Dave built their wildlife garden pond using mostly native plants in Sebastopol, that the dragonflies arrived and became her passion. When she discovered that there were no guides available for the dragonflies, she began collecting her own data which, as an educator, she decided to first "publish" on the Internet to share with others. The web site eventually evolved into her first book, Common Dragonflies of California, A Beginner's Pocket Guide (2000).<br><br>Kathy worked as an educator in her hometown of Sebastopol, CA in the Gravenstein School district for 18 years before becoming an author/publisher/dragonfly/wildlife pond spokesperson. She and Dave enjoy excursions to many areas both to see the dragonflies and to teach people about them and about wildlife ponds. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bart_schneider Bart Schneider grew up in San Francisco. He recently returned to the Bay Area after spending 25 years in Minnesota, where he was the founding editor of Hungry Mind Review and Speakeasy Magazine. He is the author of a poetry collection, Water for a Stranger, and several novels. Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-03-01T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=barbara_f_ray Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-29T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=janet_baer Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-29T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=persia_woolley As an only child born during the Depression, telling myself stories was my chief form of entertainment. Once in school I began writing them down, but in college I chose to study Architecture rather than English. Later, as a single mom raising two kids, I supported us by managing architects’ offices and to this day the architecture of a place or building always catches my attention. Taking in (or creating) a scene without noting the architecture would be like eating a hotdog without onions and mustard! It wasn’t until I was in my 30s, when I moved from southern California to San Francisco, that I began to make my living with words–first as a critic and reviewer, then as the writer and host of my own television show and later as a journalist. I also had two more marriages during which I got to raise five step-children, some of the same ages as my own offspring and some after the earlier brood were off and on their own. I have loved that aspect of my life, and am delighted that so many have stayed in close touch. It was only after the end of the last marriage that I began to think about writing a novel, and when I stumbled on Guinevere many things, including her being step-mom to Arthur’s son Mordred, fell into place. When working on a book I’m generally pretty obsessive–it’s what gets me out of bed as soon as I waken, and often keeps me up until the candle has burned to a stub. But in the time when I’m not researching, hatching, writing or polishing a book I’m likely to be found growing catnip and orchids in my fern garden; making (or revising) clothes of many eras, planning trips both of a camping and motel nature, or harassing my favorite neighbors and ex-spouses. Since they range from railroad photographers to physicists, ex-pats to spiritual tutors it makes for a lively mix…and it’s all, every bit of it, grist for my books. At present I’m about six years into a big Micheneresque historical; have spent a good four years researching the Trojan War and have just finished the manuscript of Ophelia’s Tale. So when well-meaning friends point to my age and suggest I can’t possibly get all those books finished before I die, I simply quote Parke Godwin’s Guinevere — “I hope I live to be a hundred–I’d hate to think this is as wise as I’ll ever be, and besides, something fascinating might happen tomorrow.” Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-28T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dorianne_laux Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-28T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=justine_michaels Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_kourik During the 1975 California drought, Robert Kourik created a primitive drip system, and since then he has continued to innovate using the latest technologies. He has written 10 instructional books advocating sustainable gardening, edible landscaping, and a healthy lifestyle, including Roots Demystified. He lives in Occidental, California. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-27T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jeff_cox Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-26T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jerry_jerome_bodfors_parker Jerry Parker was news editor for 23 years at The Sonoma Index-Tribune. A Michigan native raised in the New York City area, Parker at age 19 worked in the Sunday Division of the New York Times. He later worked in magazines and for the New York World-Telegram and New York Post before moving with his wife to the Sonoma Valley in 1950, where he freelanced for 10 years and raised three children, He wrote for The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa before joining The Index-Tribune. After retiring in 1982, he contributed a weekly column to the paper Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-25T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jim_lyle Jim Lyle was a professional designer in Industrial, Interior, Graphic, and Building Design for over thirty years. He was a founding partner in Pacific Design Group, an Architectural, Industrial, Product, and Interior Design firm located in Campbell, CA.. He also taught Project Management in the Design department of San Jose State University for 5 years. Jim closed his business in 1991 to allow time for writing and painting. He is nationally published and his first book "Things Seen in the Desert” was released in 2001. In 1997, he moved to Lake County, CA and a year later was the selected the first Poet Laureate of that County. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Review for the Montserrat Review for five years. He is a frequent featured speaker in Northern California, and has been a guest lecturer at Mission College, Menlo College, Phoenix University, Cogswell College and Lake Community College; all in the greater bay area. In 2003, Jim moved into the Veteran's Home of California at Yountville. He continues to be active in writing and speaking. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-25T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=alexander_saxton Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-24T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=carol_lee_flinders Carol Lee Flinders received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in medieval studies. She then spent fifteen years writing about natural foods, co-authoring the popular Laurel's Kitchen cookbooks and writing a weekly syndicated newspaper column. In 1990 Carol returned to her field of study and wrote Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics. Subsequent books include At the Root of This Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst, Rebalancing the World, and Enduring Lives. She has taught courses in mystical literature at UC, Berkeley, and at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Carol is a Fellow of the Spirituality and Health Institute, Santa Clara University, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the REVEAL conference. She is currently adjunct faculty at the Sophia Center in Culture and Spirituality, Holy Names University, Oakland, CA, where she teaches courses on mysticism and contemplative spirituality. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-24T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jean_hegland Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-23T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=francis_ingall Brigadier Francis Herman Barlay Ingall OBE DSO (1908-1998) was a British Army Officer. He was the founding commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy. Ingall was born on 24 October 1908 in the county of Surrey, England, UK. In 1927, he joined the Royal Military College Sandhurst and was commissioned in 1928. He joined the 6th Lancers, which was known as the Bengal Lancers of the British Indian Army. He saw action in the North West Frontier Province and participated in the Italian Campaign, World War II. He commanded an armoured brigade during the Italian Campaign for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was awarded an OBE by the British Government for his vital service to Pakistan by founding Pakistan Military Academy. Later Francis Ingall migrated to the USA, settling in Sonoma. In 1982 he was appointed the Honorary Consul General of Pakistan in California, USA. His autobiography The Last of the Bengal Lancers was published in 1988. Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-23T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=tom_waits Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock music styles such as blues, jazz, and vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, Waits has built up a distinctive musical persona. He has worked as a composer for movies and musical plays and has acted in supporting roles in films including Paradise Alley and Bram Stoker's Dracula; he also starred in the 1986 film Down by Law. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his soundtrack work on One from the Heart. Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-22T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dori_smith Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-22T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=leza_lowitz Leza Lowitz was born in San Francisco in 1962 and grew up in Berkeley, California. After attending NYU's Dramatic Writing Program, she returned to California and received her B.A. in English Literature from U.C. Berkeley in 1984. In 1986 she received an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Lowitz first made her way to Tokyo in 1989, where she worked as a freelance writer/editor for the Japan Times and the Asahi Evening News, and as an art critic for Art in America. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-21T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=barbara_meyn Barbara Meyn published her first volume of poetry, Blue Heron on Humbug Creek, in 1981. She was helped by the late Don L. Emblen, a longtime Santa Rosa Junior College English instructor and Sonoma County's first poet laureate. In 1988, Meyn released her second book of poetry, The Abalone Heart, published by Boise State University's Ahsahta Press. In the introduction, Emblen wrote that like Thoreau, Meyn's expressions "rise from the very local ground she walks." The couple first moved to Santa Rosa after their marriage in 1947. They lived about a half mile from the junior college. In 1965, she and her husband moved to Gates Road, a house off Calistoga Road surrounded by redwoods with a small seasonal creek. In 2003, Meyn and her husband moved to Rincon Valley. She died in January 2011. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-21T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=mona_mechling Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-20T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=john_sarles Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-20T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=jacqueline_kramer Jacqueline Kramer is currently living in rural Sonoma County, California. She is the director of a spiritual growth study group and provides spiritual counseling as a Religious Science Practitioner. Jacqueline holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting and sculpture from Bennington College. She teaches art and music appreciation to seniors. Jacqueline sings with a swing big band and performs one-woman shows. She is a freelance writer. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=frederick_weisel Frederick Weisel has been a writer and editor for more than 30 years. He lives with his wife in Santa Rosa, California. Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-19T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=bush_lisa Lisa Bush is a rangelands consultant living and working in Sebastopol. Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-18T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=rob_loughran Winner of the 2002 New Mystery Award for High Steaks 23 books in print. 200+ articles published in national magazines. 8 children and 12 grandchildren. Avid runner, lives happily and quietly with wife Penny in Windsor, CA Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-18T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=stella_r_favaro S.R. Favaro currently lives in Sonoma, California. Her passion is poetry and nature prose. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-17T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=kay_trimberger Sociologist E. Kay Trimberger is professor emerita of women's and gender studies at Sonoma State University and is a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. The author of Intimate Warriors, she lives in California. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-17T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=clare_morris Clare Morris was born in 1936 into a Quaker family, became a Roman Catholic at 19, and a nun at 23. She taught drama and theology in high schools before working full-time in the peace movement in 1970. In 1971 she helped to found the Ecumenical Peace Institute of Northern California, focusing on education in nonviolence. In I974 she organized the Angela Center in Santa Rosa, offering programs that integrated spirituality, social change, psychology and the arts.<br><br>Clare left her religious community in 1985, and began studies in psychology, for which she earned a doctorate in 1994. She is now in private practice as a Jungian psychotherapist in San Francisco, and leads seminars in spirituality and myth with the Guild for Psychological Studies.<br><br>In the early 1980s, Clare published articles on spirituality and social change in periodicals, including Creation, The Face of the Deep, Breakthrough, Intersection, and Fellowship. She has published two books of poetry, In Transit: Love Poems to the City (2005) and Child of the Longest Night (2006). Her poems have appeared in The Oakland Tribune, Integrities, and Inquiring Mind. Her story of committing civil disobedience with her mother is included in the anthology, Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006). In 2007, Clare recorded an interview for shrinkrapradio.com (program #83): The Archetype of the Wise Fool. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-16T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=robert_l_ripley Robert Leroy Ripley (December 26, 1890 -- May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist, who created the world famous Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, radio show, and television show which feature odd 'facts' from around the world. He was born on December 26 and had the name Leroy Robert Ripley but changed his name and date of birth to seem more eccentric. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-16T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=eleanor_phillips Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-15T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=susanne_m_batzdorff Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-15T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=dorothy_allison Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-14T00:00:00-08:00 http://sonomalibrary.org/community/author.php?id=ruth_lechlitner Ruth Lechlitner has been writing poetry for more than half a century. Her collections span the period from 1937 to 1973.Born in Elkhart, Indiana (near South Bend), to Jessie Wier James and Martin Lechlitner, Ruth Naomi Lechlitner received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1923 and an M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1926. She married Paul F. Corey and lived in Cold-Spring-on-Hudson, New York, in the 1930s before settling in Sonoma, California, in the late 1940s. Although she has also written radio verse plays, prose word-portraits of literary figures such as children's author and illustrator Marguerite de Angeli , book reviews, and thoughtful appraisals of poets such as W.H. Auden and William Carlos Williams , her chief work has been poetry. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800 2012-02-14T00:00:00-08:00