Katherine Hastings
Poet:  She will be reading selections from her books Updraft and Fog & Light
Katherine Hastings is the author of Updraft (Finishing Line Press, 2010); Fog & Light (Ahadada Press, 2010); and Sidhe (dPress 2006).  Her poems have been published widely in journals and anthologies.  She is the host of WordTemple on Santa Rosa's NPR affiliate, KRCB FM, and founder of the WordTemple Poetry Series.

Iris Dunkle
Poet:  She will be reading selections from her book Inheritance.
Iris Jamahl Dunkle received her Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University and her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University. Her book, Inheritance, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2010. Her poetry has also appeared in a number of publications including: Fence, Boxcar Poetry Review and Thin Air.

Janine Canan
Poet:  She will be reading from the book, Under the Azure, Poems by Francis Jammes, translated by Janine Canan.
Janine Canan lives in California’s Valley of the Moon. She is a passionate feminist, a seasoned psychiatrist, devoted student of the Indian humanitarian Amma, and the award-winning author of 18 books of poetry, stories, essays, anthologies and translations—most recently, Under the Azure: Poems by Francis Jammes.

Margaret Kaufman
Poet:  She will be reading from the book Inheritance.
Margaret Kaufman, resident of Kentfield, California, leads poetry workshops, teaches at the Fromm Institute at USF, and edits both fiction and poetry. Her honors include a Marin County Artists Grant, a recent fiction award from Nimrod, and the Anna Rosenberg Award.

Rebecca Foust
Poet:  She will be reading from her book All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song.
Rebecca Foust’s books include All That Gorgeous, Pitiless Song (Many Mountains Moving Prize, 2010), Mom’s Canoe, and Dark Card (2007-08 Robert Phillips Chapbook Prizes). God, Seed (Sept 2010) collects environmental poetry with art by Lorna Stevens.  Recent poems appear in Hudson Review, Margie, North America Review, and Spoon River.

Keith Ekiss
Poet:  He will be reading from his book Pima Road Notebook.
Keith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he is the past recipient of scholarships and residencies from the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences, Santa Fe Art Institute, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

Robin Ekiss
Poet:  She will be reading from her book The Mansion of Happiness.
Robin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers, and author of The Mansion of Happiness, winner of the 2010 Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize and a finalist for both the 2010 Northern California and California Book Awards.

Bart Rawlinson
Poet
Bart Rawlinson is the recipient of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award, the Robert Browning Prize, and the Eugene Ruggles Poetry Prize, among other awards. His work has been published in a variety of literary magazines. He earned his MFA, Creative Writing from San Francisco State in 2003 and teaches English full-time at Mendocino College.

Thomas Centolella
Poet:  He will be reading from his book Views from along the Middle Way.
Thomas Centolella’s latest book is Views from along the Middle Way. His honors include a Lannan Literary Award, the American Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Northern California Book Award. He’s been a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, and currently teaches creative writing in the Bay Area.

Gregory Randall
Poet:  He will read from his book A Room in the Country.
Gregory W. Randall’s chapbook Double Happiness was selected by Mark Doty for the 5th Annual Camber Press Chapbook Award for 2009. His chapbook A Room in the Country was recently published by Pudding House Press and Uncommon Refrains is forthcoming from The Lives You Touch publications. Greg received a 2009 Pushcart Prize nomination and his poetry appears in numerous journals and periodicals. Greg and his wife Toni live in Santa Rosa where they own a financial planning practice and host the Londonberry Salon and Londonberry Salon EAST.

Michael Rothenberg
Poet:  He will be reading from his book My Youth as a Train.
Michael Rothenberg’s books of poems include Man/Woman, The Paris Journals (Fish Drum), Unhurried Vision (University of New Mexico Press), and Choose (Big Bridge).  He is also author of the eco spy thriller Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press). His most recent book of poems is My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing).

Joyce Jenkins
Publisher of the Bay Area's poetry newspaper, Poetry Flash, and the author of Portal, a poetry chapbook. She has received an American Book Award and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Lifetime Achievement Award.

Richard Silberg
Richard lives in Berkeley, where he is associate editor of Poetry Flash and a teacher of poetry workshops. His books include critical essays, translations of Korean poetry, and five collections of poetry, most recently Deconstruction of the Blues in 2006.

Melissa Stein
Poet: She will be reading from Rough Honey.
Melissa Stein is the author of the poetry collection Rough Honey, winner of the 2010 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her poems have been published in The Southern Review, New England Review, Best New Poets 2009, Harvard Review, and many other journals. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.

Molly Fisk
Poet: She will be reading from The More Difficult Beauty.
Molly Fisk teaches poetry privately and runs the popular on-line workshop Poetry Boot Camp. Widely published and anthologized, Fisk is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow and has received a California Arts Council grant in poetry. She's the author of The More Difficult Beauty and Listening to Winter.