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Something Normal - Springtime at Stow Lake - GG Park - Jane Hudson
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Barbara Applegate is a retired administrator of Early Childhood Education, mother of three daughters, a traveler and contemplative. She enjoys writing but finds it challenging to write consistently. She loves taking writing classes—not just because she learns from them, but because they give her structure for writing.
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V&B Board member Fiction The World Above Nonfiction Stillness Absolution Various Photos |
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Kathryn Santana Goldman is a native of San Francisco. Her interest in poetry began when she was working in ICU as a registered nurse. She used this practice to process the variety of stressful scenarios experienced. Over the years, she has continued to experiment with different types of writing such as short stories and plays. As an avid traveler, Kathryn has become skilled at capturing photographs about the diversity she encounters. Three years ago, she began to combine her love of photography with her writing by using the images she captures as seeds for her poems. She continues to explore new ways to use these two art forms to share her experience with family and friends.
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Contributions to this issue:
Poetry The Flamingo Mystery, March 2020 Military Maneuvers 0200 Hours, April 26, 2020 |
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Dina Martin was fortunate to have earned a living through writing, first as a newspaper reporter and later as an advocate for public education. She found her husband of 34 years the same way, by writing a personal ad in the Bay Guardian. Now retired, she occasionally finds time to write in between folk dancing, OLLI classes and trying to do a little good. She and her husband reside in Bernal Heights, and are happy to have their two adult children living and working nearby.
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Contributions to this issue:
V&B Board member Inside OLLI Zooming Boomers |
Before Tina Martin retired in 2014 from CCSF, where she taught ESL for 32 years, she taught and/or trained teachers on five continents--Oceana, Europe, Africa, North America, and Asia. She has a son, Jonathan, born in 1979 and now living in NYC, with whom she founded the JoMama Book Club in 2007, leading to once-a-month discussions on Google Chat. She is currently hiding her memoir, Everything I Should Have Leaned I Could Have Learned in Tonga, from all but her closest friends, while writing the sequel, Letters of Apology for My First Memoir. She’s also working on a piece of fiction, Sisters Sheltering, which takes place in San Francisco during the pandemic. Three nonfiction pieces she wrote appear in anthologies, and two others are online.
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Contributions to this issue:
Fiction Nobody Knows - A Pandemic Interlude Bay Area Neighborhoods A Pandemic View of My Window--The Evolution of a Bear and a Window |
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Denize Springer’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various publications and literary journals including the Marin IJ, East Bay Express, Pearl, Estero, Vistas & Byways and Ocean Realm. Her short story, “The Way We Say Goodbye,” was named a semi-finalist in the 2019 Tillie Olsen Short Story Award and will appear in the online journal Please See Me in early 2020. Her plays and adaptations have been presented in New York and San Francisco venues including the New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She earned an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and has taught creative writing courses at OLLI at SF State.
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