2012 SPC Spring Writers Conference
Saturday April 14 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
1719 25th Street
Sacramento, CA
$30 Non-members, $20 Members
Michelle Bitting has work published or forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Nimrod, Rattle, River Styx, Crab Orchard Review, Passages North, Linebreak, diode, Anti—, the L.A. Weekly and others. Poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and as the Weekly Featured Poet on Verse Daily. In 2007, Thomas Lux chose her full-length manuscript, Good Friday Kiss, as the winner of the DeNovo First Book Award and C & R Press published it in 2008. Her book Notes to the Beloved, won the 2011 Sacramento Poetry Center Award and was published in 2012. Recently, Michelle won the Beyond Baroque Foundation Award and she has won the Rock & Sling Virginia Brendemuehl Award and Glimmer Train Poetry Open. She has also been a finalist for the Poets & Writers California Exchange contest and Rona Jaffe Foundation Awards. Michelle has taught poetry in the U.C.L.A. Extension Writer’s Program, at Twin Towers prison with a grant from Poets & Writers Magazine and is proud to be an active California Poet in the Schools. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Pacific University, Oregon. Visit her at: www.michellebitting.com.
Christian Kiefer is a musician, poet, novelist and professor. He has published his poems in Wild Duck Review, Antioch Review and Blackbird. He has been hailed by one critic as the founder of the “country ambient” sound, and his collection of songs about 43 presidents entitled Of Great and Mortal Men was featured on NPR. The Infinite Tides, his first published novel, will be released from Bloomsbury in July 2012. He currently teaches at American River College.
Kate Gale, poet, writer, essayist and opera librettist, received her Ph.D. in American and English Literature from Claremont Graduate University. She is on the judging committee of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and is the managing editor of Red Hen Press. She is also the editor of The Los Angeles Review, president of the American Composers Forum–Los Angeles, past president of PEN USA, and serves on the boards of the A Room of Her Own Foundation and the Poetry Society of America. She has published five collections of poetry, most recently Mating Season (Tupelo Press), an autobiographical novel titled Lake of Fire, and a bilingual children’s book. She is also the editor of several anthologies of fiction and non-fiction. As a librettist, she co-authored Paradises Lost with Ursula K. LeGuin and composer Stephen Andrew Taylor and wrote Río de Sangre, an original opera, with composer Don Davis. She has two forthcoming collections of poetry, The Goldilocks Zone (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012) and Echo Light (Blaze Vox, 2012). As an arts manager she curates several reading series in Los Angeles and New York City.
Steve Gehrke has published three books, most recently Michelangelo’s Seizure, which was selected for the National Poetry Series and published by University of Illinois Press. His other awards include an NEA grant and a Pushcart Prize. Poems from a new manuscript have appeared or are forthcoming at Poetry, The Missouri Review, VQR, Agni, Shenandoah and many others. He teaches at the University of Nevada-Reno.
Christina Hutchins is the author of The Stranger Dissolves (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2011) and two chapbooks, Collecting Light (Acacia Books, 1999) and Radiantly We Inhabit the Air (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011 Robin Becker Prize), and her poems appear in Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly, The Missouri Review, The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, The Southern Review, and Women’s Review of Books. Her awards include The Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, The National Poetry Review’s Finch Prize, two Barbara Deming Awards, and the James D. Phelan Award. She holds degrees from UC Davis, Harvard, and Graduate Theological Union and currently teaches process philosophy and poetry to graduate students at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley.
Tim Kahl [http://www.timkahl.com] is the author of Possessing Yourself (Word Tech, 2009) and The Century of Travel (Word Tech, forthcoming). His work has been published in Prairie Schooner, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Notre Dame Review, The Journal, Parthenon West Review, and many other journals in the U.S. He appears as Victor Schnickelfritz at the poetry and poetics blog The Great American Pinup (http://greatamericanpinup.wordpress.com/) and the poetry video blog Linebreak Studios [http://linebreakstudios.blogspot.com/]. He is also editor of Bald Trickster Press and Clade Song [http://www.cladesong.com]. He is the vice president and events coordinator of The Sacramento Poetry Center. He currently houses his father’s literary estate—one volume: Robert Gerstmann’s book of photos of Chile, 1932)
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