David Andrews
Andrews has traveled extensively in Europe, the Far East, and the Middle East. Over three years has been devoted to writing an historical trilogy entitled Charatza, a story about a young Turkish woman who received a slave. Formerly publisher/editor of international economic forecasts for Chase Econometrics, a subsidiary of JP Morgan Chase.
Jennifer French
French, a whimsical artist, is the founder, and president, of the Backstreet Gallery and Artists Co-operative in Florence, Oregon. Author of two young adult novels.
Jim Hayes
Hayes is a Cal Poly State University Journalism Professor Emeritus, journalist and former LA Times writing coach. In 2006, he collaborated with Art Professor Emeritus Robert Reynolds on The Art of Robert Reynolds: Quiet Journey, a 176-page hardbound book. Hayes is working on a memoir, Lost in the Greatest Generation.
George Hitchcock
Hitchcock is a major American writer/editor/actor of the 20th century. Co-founded the San Francisco Review, and in 1964, he went solo and launched kayak magazine. As a creative writer, Hitchcock authored a dozen books of distinctive, surrealist poetry, seven widely produced plays, and two collections of short stories and two novels. One-Man Boat: The George Hitchcock Reader includes work from all three genres, as well as interviews, Hitchcock's famous testimony before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, and a section on kayak.
Nicole Gagne Ledoux
Ledoux is a teacher and artist. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master's in Teaching from Chapman University. She lives in Orange County, CA with her husband and two young children.
Sally Lemee
Lemee is an aspiring photographer who enjoys nature through the eyes of a camera lens. Her career as a program manager of training programs at UCSC Extension enabled her to take advantage of several photography classes in the Monterey and Santa Cruz areas.
Glenna Luschei
Luschei is the publisher/editor Café Solo, Solo and Solo Café for forty years. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a D.H Lawrence Fellowship in New Mexico, an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, North Carolina and a Master of Life Award from her alma mater, The University of Nebraska. She was named Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo City and County for the year 2000. For four years, she served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Robert McDowell
McDowell's poetry, criticism, and fiction have been published widely here and abroad in magazines such as The Hudson Review, Poetry, The New Criterion, The Kenyon Review, London Magazine, and Zzyzyva, among others. He is the author of Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions, and three collections of poetry, On Foot, In Flames, Quiet Money and The Diviners and founder of The Reaper magazine and Story Line Press. His other published books include How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel, stories translated from the Czech with Jindriska Badal; the revised Sound and Form in Modern Poetry with Harvey Gross; and The Reaper Essays. He is also the editor of the anthologies, Poetry After Modernism, and Cowboy Poetry Matters.
Karen Nichols
Northwest artist/photographer/writer. Member of Oregon's Watercolor Society and Back Street Gallery Artists Cooperative. Former editor for Carapace Scrawler's Writing Journal. Her current novel, Thornton House, is nearing completion.
Nutzle
Nutzle, a.k.a Bruce Kleinsmith, who pictures himself as a fine artist locked inside a cartoonist's body. Contributor to the Japan Times for 16-years and Rolling Stone Magazine in the 1970s. Currently a cartoonist for The Santa Cruz Weekly.
Marjorie Simon
Simon has been spending half the year in Eugene, Oregon and La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, where she's been writing, playing and participating in writers' groups. She was a co-editor of kayak magazine. Her poems have appeared in Sea of Cortez Review, Artlife, kayak.
