Kathryn Gessner teaches writing at Shasta College and serves on the Board of Directors for Lotus Outreach International. Some of her recent poems have appeared in Louisiana Literature and New Millenium Writings.
Joan Goodreau’s stories, articles and poems have appeared in such publications as Dalhousie Review, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Watershed, The Broken Plate Literary Magazine, Ottawa Poetry Journal, Plus Magazine, The Word Magazine, Flashquake and Latitude on 2nd. During a recent Hedgebrook residency, she completed a memoir, The Longest Year, about her son with autism. She is currently working on a collection of poems about family life on the spectrum. She has been a Special Education teacher and program specialist. A native Californian, she lived in England and Canada and now resides in Chico, California.
Nikki Hunt was born in green and rainy Seattle, Washington and moved to Chico, the city of trees and creeks, when she was ten. Writing is the thread that has run through her life along with all of her varied jobs (landscape assistant, transcriptionist, massage therapist, Alternatives to Violence Project facilitator, case manager, and early childhood educator, to name just a few), her homes (Cincinnati, Davis, Milwaukee), and wide array of educational achievements (BA in political science, MA in public administration, certificates in paramedicine and paralegal). She attends the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Chico where she serves on the board, and is also on the board of Chico Rogue Theatre.
Finn Kraemer is an English teacher at Butte College and has a Master’s in Professional Writing from The University of Southern California. His fiction has been previously published in Watershed.