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BARBARA BRANDES is new to poetry. This class last year was her first foray. Watch for themes from the natural world. She is not new to writing; she and several colleagues formed a writing group ten years ago, where she has focused on family memoir. Barbara works as a psychologist in private practice.
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KAREN DURHAM has only recently learned through fellow poets that the world is nothing like what she was told. She contributes spoken-word stories, essays and poetry to Writers On the Air and has had short stories and non-fiction published in American River Review and California Update.
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BETHANIE HUMPHREYS is a writer, editor, and mixed-media visual artist. She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member, and SPC Art Gallery curator. She was Editor in Chief of the 2015 American River Review, and is currently Associate Editor and Art Director for Tule Review. Her chapbook, Dendrochronology, will be published by Finishing Line Press in June, 2019.
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HEATHER JUDY is a poet and artist living in Sacramento. She is a Sacramento Poetry Center board member, an associate editor for Tule Review, and co-curates for the Sacramento Poetry Center art gallery.
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KATHY LES decades ago earned a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley, thinking herself an analytical reader but never a writer. She circled her way into writing in many forms over the course of her various careers until she found her way to poetry and fiction, where she now spends her writing days. He work has been published in Soul of the Narrator and Tule Review.
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LISA LUDDEN is the author of the chapbook Palebound, and her poem, “How is Home,” is a finalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize 2018. Her poems appear in Tule Review (forthcoming), Natural Bridge, Mockingheart Review, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on her first full-length book of poetry.
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