Barbara Jodry lives in Northern California. She is a writer, editor, and retired teacher. Her writing genres are memoir, personal vignettes, travel, and poetry. Her short stories and poems have been published in several recent anthologies.

She has written feature articles published in Suttertown News, Peaceworks, Because People Matter, and in the Yesteryear column in Senior Spectrum. Her work has also appeared in Solar Cooker Review and Yankee Magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerilyn Ring was born and raised in San Francisco and later relocated to Sacramento. She has six grown children and lives with her husband and two dogs in Loomis, California. She enjoyed a career in nursing working in different specialties but found that hospice, mental health, and chemical dependency were the most rewarding.

While she enjoyed a career in nursing, writing has always been her primary passion while reading is her past time. Like any pursuit, she believes writing is one-part talent and nine parts application, applying oneself to the study of structure, the novel’s blueprint and craft, the elements of fiction. She’s currently working on her second novel and has recently published her first, Bridget. Her genre is upmarket fiction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pete Cruz was raised in Milpitas, California, a town adjacent to San Jose. He holds a bachelor’s in English from California State University, Sacramento. A member of Inspire Christian Writers and the California Writers Club–Sacramento Branch, he has won awards for his short stories, served on the editing team for Inspire’s annual anthologies, and presented talks and workshops during his professional career. Pete enjoys water volleyball, cruiser motorcycles, dancing, and watching football and basketball. Visit www.PeteCruz.com.

 

Mark’s first novel, Stevenson’s Treasure was published by Fireship Press in 2014, and was a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. His screenplay about Shakespeare’s family, “Taming Judith” was a finalist in the Academy of Motion Pictures’ writing competition and was optioned by a film company. He earned residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Martha’s Vineyard Writers’ Residency, and the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center. A psychologist who in his day job researched the criminally insane, Mark lives in Sacramento where he is working on two more historical novels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeffrey Sommer has been writing from the time he was in high school. Starting with poetry, he soon began writing short stories and later screenplays, plays and novels.  Having taken time off to raise a family, he resumed his passion for writing by completing two novels in the past year, with another set to be published in the coming months.

When he isn’t indulging his love for creative writing, Jeffrey spends his days and evenings at home with his wife and daughter in the foothills of Northern California.