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Helen Adam
(1909-1993)
_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Adam (Wikipedia)

Sam D'Allesandro
(1956-1988)
http://www.kqed.org/arts/profile/index.jsp?essid=5191 (KQED Arts)

Richard Brautigan
(1935-1984)
http://www.brautigan.net (Brautigan Bibliography and Archive)

James Broughton
(1913-1999)
http://speccoll.library.kent.edu/literature/poetry/broughton.html
(James Broughton, Papers)

Charles Bukowski
(1920-1994)
http://www.charlesbukowski.20m.com/home.html

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
(1951-1982)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/cha_theresa_hak_kyung.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Ina Coolbrith
(1841-1928)
http://www.jacklondons.net/inacoolbrith.html (The World of Jack London)

Robert Duncan
(1919-1988)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/duncan/life.htm
(Modern American Poetry)

Larry Eigner
(1927-1996)
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/documents/obits/eigner.html (EPC)

William Everson
(1912-1994)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/everson/about.htm (Modern American Poetry)

Nora May French
(1881-1907)
http://www.nora-may-french.org/

Allen Ginsberg
(1926-1997)
http://www.allenginsberg.org/

Madeline Gleason
(1909-1973)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Gleason (Wikipedia)

Phil Goldvarg
(1932-2004)
http://www.escritoresdelnuevosol.com/poets_corner.asp?poet_rec=2&poet=Phil
(Los Escritores del Nuevo Sol)
_"Drums for Peltier"
http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/red/drums.htm
_ http://www.eskimopie.net/phil.htm (Sacramento Poetry, Art and Music)

Barbara Guest
(1920-2006)
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/guest/ (EPC)

Frances Jaffer
(d. 1999)
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v1_1_1999/fj3.html (ASU)

Robinson Jeffers
(1887-1962)
http://www.jeffers.org/
_ http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/jeffers/jeffers.htm (Modern American Poetry)

June Jordan
(1936-2002)
http://www.junejordan.com/

Bob Kaufman
(1925-1986)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/kaufman/kaufman.htm (Modern American Poetry)

Charles Keeler
(1872-1937)
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/frameindex.html?http:// www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/people/keeler.html
(Sierra Club)

Philip Lamantia
(1927-2005)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/03/11/BAG4MBNRMF1.DTL
(San Francisco Chronicle)
_ http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Lamantia.htm (LiteraryHistory.com)

Larry Levis
(1946-1996)
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/385 (poets.org)
_ http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n2/poetry/levis_l/index.htm

Janet Lewis
(1899-1998)
http://msupress.msu.edu/authorbio.php?authorID=286
(Michigan State University Press)

Philomene Long
(1941-2007)
http://www.virtualvenice.info/poets/john&philomene.htm (Virtual Venice)

Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
(d. 2007)
http://new.mynevadacounty.com/library/index.cfm?ccs=1152 (Nevada Country Library)

Edwin Markham
(1852-1940)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/markham/markham.htm
(Modern American Poetry)

Dorothy Miles
(1931-1993)
http://www.let.kun.nl/sign-lang/echo/docs/Dorothy%20Miles.pdf

Josephine Miles
(1911-1985)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/archives_exhibits/in_memoriam/catalog/miles_josephine.html
(In Memoriam, University of California)

Joaquin Miller
(1837-1913)
http://www.literarytraveler.com/miller/joaquinmiller.htm (Literary Traveler)

Czeslaw Milosz
(1911-2004)
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/206 (poets.org)

Andres Montoya
(1968-1999)
http://www.csufresno.edu/StudentOrgs/cwaa/ (CSU Fresno)

Yone Noguchi
(1875-1947)
http://www.h.ehime-u.ac.jp/~marx/YN/

George Oppen
(1908-1984)
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/920 (poets.org)
_ http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/oppen/oppen.htm
(Modern American Poetry)

Kenneth Patchen
(1911-1972)
http://poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/23 (poets.org)

Stuart Z. Perkoff
http://www.virtualvenice.info/poets/perkoff.htm (Virtual Venice)

Pedro Pietri
(1944-2004)
http://www.virtualboricua.org/Docs/pietri.htm (obituary)
_ http://calacapress.com/pedropietri.html (Calaca Press)

Kenneth Rexroth
(1905-1982)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rexroth/rexroth_life.htm
(Modern American Poetry)
_Kennrth Rexroth Archive
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/

Stan Rice
(1942-2002)
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/riceans/RIP_stan.html

John Rollin Ridge
(1827-1867)
The Poems of John Rollin Ridge
http://anpa.ualr.edu/digital_library/jrr/jrr.htm

Edward Rowland Sill
(1841-1887)
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/article.cfm?archiveDate=03-29-05&storyID=21055
(Berkeley Daily Planet)

Anne Silver
http://www.annesilver.com/

Paul Smyth
(d. 2006)
http://www.elleonliteraryarts.org/b_smyth.php (El Leon Literary Arts)

Roberta Spear
(1948-2003)
http://www.heydaybooks.com/public/books/asr.html (Heyday)

Jack Spicer
(1925-1965)
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/spicer/ (EPC)
_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Spicer (Wikipedia)

George Sterling
(1869-1926)
http://alangullette.com/lit/sterling/ (Alan Gullette)
_ http://www.angelfire.com/journal/chrismayou/gsterling/index.html (Chris Mayou)

Lew Welch
http://www.beatmuseum.org/welch/LewWelch.html (American Museum of Beat Art)

Franz Werfel
(1890-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Werfel (Wikipedia)
_ http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fwerfel.htm (Authors' Calendar)

Ivor Winters
(1900-1968)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/winters/winters.htm
(Modern American Poetry)

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Chris Abani
http://www.chrisabani.com/

Millicent Borges Accardi
http://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/

Nancy Agabian
http://www.armeniandrama.org/people.php?p=nancy-agabian (Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance)

Will Alexander
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/fiction/sunrisearmageddon.htm (Spuyten Duyvil)

Paula Gunn Allen
http://www.nativewiki.org/Paula_Gunn_Allen (Native Wiki)

Ralph Angel
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/180 (poets.org)

Jimmy Santiago Baca
http://www.jimmysantiagobaca.com/

Laurel Ann Bogen
http://www.unlikelystories.org/old/archives/bogen.html (Unlikely Stories)

Enrique Martínez Celaya
http://www.martinezcelaya.com/

Victoria Chang
http://www.victoriamchang.com/

Wanda Coleman
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/118

Jayne Cortez
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/cortez_jayne.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Kamau Daaood
http://www.kamaudaaood.com/

Michael Datcher
http://authors.aalbc.com/michaeldatcher.htm (African American Literature Book Club)

Sharon Doubiago
http://www.writersontheedge.org/doubiago.html (Nye Beach Writers Series)

Carolyn Dunn
http://www.carolyndunn.com/

Michael C. Ford
http://www.cinetropic.com/ford/

Amelie Frank
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~pero/ameliefrank.html

Kate Gale
http://www.kategale.com/ ___ http://www.redhen.org/kategale.asp (Red Hen Press)

Jack Grapes
http://jackgrapes.com/index_content.html

Michael S. Harper
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/harper/life.htm (Modern American Poetry)

Eloise Klein Healy
http://www.eloisekleinhealy.com/ (Antioch University)

Dima Hilal
http://www.dimahilal.com/

Mark Irwin
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/faculty/faculty1008225.html (USC)

Gerald Locklin
http://www.slipstreampress.org/dunces.html#poet%20bio (Slipstream Magazine)

Perie Longo
http://www.perielongo.com/

Suzanne Lummis
http://www.poetix.net/poetix_staff_bios/lummis_bio.htm (Poetix)

Rick Lupert
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/

Stosh Machek
http://www.stoshmachek.com/portal/index.php

Lynn Manning
http://www.lynnmanning.com/

John Menaghan
http://www.salmonpoetry.com/money.html (Salmon Poetry)

Harryette Mullen
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/mullen/ (EPC)

Carol Muske-Dukes
http://www.carolmuskedukes.com/

Majid Naficy
http://www.electrato.com/art/poetry/dialogue/nafisi/index.html
(Dialogue of Nations Through Poetry in Translation)

Rick Noguchi
http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=34677 (University of Pittsburgh

James Ragan
http://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/jim/ragan.html

Ariel Robello
http://nupress.northwestern.edu/title.cfm?ISBN=1-882688-29-5

Luis Rodriguez
http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/

Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/sojournerkincaidrolle.html (CEMA)

Lee Rossi
http://home.earthlink.net/~pero/lee-rossi.html

Michael Ryan
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2496 (UC Irvine)

David St. John
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/149 (poets.otg)

Greg Sarris
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/07.16.98/lit-sarris-9828.html

Ara Shirinyan
http://la-lit.com/writers/la-lit-1-ara-shirinyan/ (LA-Lit)

Maurya Simon
http://www.redhen.org/authorDetail.asp?authorID=57 (Red Hen Press)

Ntozake Shange
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/shange_ntozake.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Joan Jobe Smith
http://www.poetrybusiness.co.uk/the_pow_wow_caf_i0469.aspx (The Poetry Business)

Barry Spacks
http://www.barryspacks.net

Julia Stein
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa/ppa91.html#fp1 (Poetry Superhighway)

Amy Uyematsu
http://www.asianamericanbooks.com/books/3338.htm (AsianAmericanBooks.com)

Paul Vangelisti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vangelisti (Wikipedia)
_ http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0487a.html (Register of Paul Vangelisti Papers - UCSD)

Marcos Villatoro
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59108 (Random House)

Fred Voss
http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Fred+Voss (Bloodaxe Books)

Sholeh Wolpé
http://www.sholeh.info/

Chryss Yost
http://www.sbpoetry.net/SB%20POETS%20READ/ChryssYost.html
(Poetry Matters in Santa Barbara)

Sandra Alcosser
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/189 (poets.org)

B.H. Boston
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v1n2/poetry/boston_bh/index.htm (Blackbird)

Marilyn Chin
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/chin/chin.htm (Modern American Poetry)

Fanny Howe
http://holloway.english.berkeley.edu/howe/howe.html (Holloway Series in Poetry)

Leroy V. Quintana
http://www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=35 (Curbstone)

Jerome Rothenberg
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/rothenberg/ (EPC)

Taco Shop Poets
http://www.tacoshoppoets.org

Quincy Troupe
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/489
(poets.org)

Alurista
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alurista (Wikipedia)
_ http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/alurista.html (CEMA)

Eavan Boland
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/153 (Poets.org)

Dane Cervine
http://danecervine.typepad.com/

J. P. Dancing Bear
http://home.comcast.net/~jpdancingbear/

Kate Evans
http://www.beingandwriting.blogspot.com

Kenneth Fields
http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=50 (Stanford)

Alessandra Diridoni Grigsby
http://www.invernesshousepress.com

Diem Jones
http://www.iveknownrivers.org/authors/jones.htm (MoAD Stories Project)

Robert Kendall
http://www.wordcircuits.com/kendall/

Kathleen Lynch
http://www.kathleenlynch.com/

Nathaniel Mackey
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/468 (Poets.org)

Adrienne Rich
http://www.nortonpoets.com/richa.htm (Norton Poets Online)

Alan Soldofsky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Soldofsky (Wikipedia)

Joseph Stroud
http://www.boaeditions.org/authors/stroud.html (Boa Editions)

Robert Sward
http://www.robertsward.com/bio.htm

Stanford Spoken Word Collective
http://www.stanfordspokenword.com/

Maya Angelou
http://www.mayaangelou.com/
_ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87 (poets.org)

Dan Bellm
http://www.heydaybooks.com/public/books/ohw.html (Heyday Books)

Bill Berkson
http://www.sfai.edu/People/Person.aspx?id=489§ionID=2&navID=365 (SFAI)

Rebecca Black
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v5n2/poetry/black_r/index.htm (Blackbird)

Lorna Dee Cervantes
http://missionpoetrycenter.blogspot.com/
_ http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/portales/cervante.htm (San Antonio College LitWeb)

Justin Chin
http://www.suspectthoughts.com/chin.html (Suspect Thoughts Press)

Mack Dennis
http://poetcd.com/products.php?id=69 (poetrycd)

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_dhompa.html (Apogee Press)

W. S. Di Piero
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/271 (Poets.org)

Diane di Prima
http://dianediprima.com/

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
http://www.citylights.com/ferlinghetti/
(City Lights)

Kathleen Fraser
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/fraser/ (EPC)

Daphne Gottlieb
http://www.daphnegottlieb.com/

Jessica Hagedorn
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hagedorn/hagedorn.htm (Modern American Poetry)

Jack Hirschman
http://www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=86 (Curbstone Press)

Benjamin Hollander
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0963932179/002-4651662-0859210?v=glance&n=283155 (Amazon.com)

Nazelah Jamison
http://www.livepoets.com/poet.aspx?id=83 (LivePoetsDotCom)

Maya Khosla
http://www.bearstarpress.com/books/keelbone.htm (Bear Star Press)

Kevin Killian
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/killian/ (EPC)
_ http://www.suspectthoughts.com/killian.html (Suspect Thoughts)

Myung Mi Kim
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kim/ (EPC)

David Koehn
http://www.davidkoehn.com/

Joanne Kyger
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kyger/ (EPC)

Marina LaPalma
http://www.wastedspace.com/best/lapalma.html (wasted space)

Priscilla Lee
http://www.psycherelics.com/pris.html

Genny Lim
http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/limgen_toc.html (CEMA)

Michael McClure
http://www.mcclure-manzarek.com/mcclurebio.html

devorah major
http://www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=48
(Curbstone Press)

Eileen Malone
http://www.eileenmalone.us/

Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes
http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_mayes.html (Apogee Press)

David Meltzer
http://www.laalamedapress.com/books/beatthing.html (Beat Thing, La Alameda Press)
_ http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/meltzer/index.html (EPC)

Janice Mirikitani
http://www.bigbridge.org/eurosf/janicem2.htm (Euro-San Francisco Poetry Festival)

Christopher Nealon
http://herecomeseverybody.blogspot.com/2004/09/christopher-nealon-grew-up-in-upstate.html (Here Comes Everybody)

Denise Newman
http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_newman.html (Apogee Press)

Diana O'Hehir
http://www.dianaohehir.com/contact.php

Michael Palmer
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/98 (poets.org)

Alice Elizabeth Rogoff
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?r=1&ean=9781595409027 (Barnes & Noble)

Michael Rothenberg
http://www.bigbridge.org/issue8/bioroth.htm

Kim Shuck
http://www.nativewiki.org/Kim_Shuck

Aaron Shurin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Shurin (Wikipedia)

Ron Silliman
http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/silliman/(EPC) _ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1544 (poets.org)

Bucky Sinister
http://www.buckysinister.com/

Carol Snow
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10158.php (UC Press)

Melissa Stein
http://www.thirteenways.org/poets/Melissa/melissa.html
(Thirteen Ways)

Pireeni Sundaralingam
http://www.wordandviolin.com/wav/bios.html

Piri Thomas
http://www.cheverote.com/piri.html

Truong Tran
http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_tran.html (Apogee Press)

Nellie Wong
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/wong_nellie.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Elmaz Abinader
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/abinader_elmaz.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Opal Palmer Adisa
http://www.opalwriters.com/

David Alpaugh
http://www.smallpoetrypress.com/

Alta
Irene Reti, "Alta and the History of Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989", University of Santa Cruz, University Library -- http://library.ucsc.edu/library/reg-hist/alta.pdf

Alfred Arteaga
http://www.alfredarteaga.com/

Lisa Bernstein aka Lisa
http://www.lisabmusic.com

Robin Blaser
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/blaser/index.html (EPC)
_ http://www.woodlandpattern.org/poems/robin_blaser01.shtml (Woodland Pattern)

Chana Bloch
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2002/March2002/bloch.htm
(PoetryMagazine.com)

John Campion
http://worldatuningfork.com/John/ (World a Tuning Fork)

Louis Cuneo
http://mpoole2.home.mindspring.com/Pages/Louis%20Cuneo.html

Lucille Lang Day
http://www.scarlettanager.com/authors/day.html (Scarlet Tanager Books)

Donna de la Perrière
http://www.cca.edu/academics/writingliterature/faculty/dperriere/ (CCA)

Charles Ellick
http://www.louderarts.com/poets/ellick/ (The louderARTS Project)

Marcia Falk
http://www.interbridge.com/marciafalk/

Jack and Adelle Foley
http://www.poetz.com/cgi-poetz/Calcium37.pl?CalendarName=BPC&Op=ShowIt&Amount=Day&NavType=Relative&Type=List&Date=2005/4/30 (Bowery Poetry Club)
_Jack Foley -- http://www.scarlettanager.com/authors/foley.html (Scarlet Tanager)

Graham Foust
http://www.floodeditions.com/new/foust_necessarystranger.html
(Flood Editions)

Luis Garcia
http://www.poetsencyclopedia.com/luisgarcia.shtml
(The Poets Encyclopedia.com)

Janice Gould
http://www.nativewiki.org/Janice_Gould

Judy Grahn
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/grahn/grahn.htm(Modern American Poetry)

Robert Haas
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/haas/hass.htm (Modern American Poetry)
_ http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/hassbio.html (Dia Center)

Forrest Hamer
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/forrest_hamer (Famous Poets and Poems)

Lyn Hejinian
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/396 (poets.org)
_ http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hejinian/ (EPC)

Brenda Hillman
http://galileo.stmarys-ca.edu/bhillman/

Marc Bamuthi Joseph
http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=165 (Speak Out!)

Ilya Kaminsky
http://www.ilyakaminsky.com/

Richard Krech
http://www.poetsencyclopedia.com/richardkrech.shtml
(The Poets Encyclopedia.com)

Joseph Lease
http://www.cca.edu/academics/mfawriting/faculty/jlease/ (CCA)

Aya de León
http://www.ayadeleon.com/

Ben Lerner
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2006_p_lerner.html (National Book Foundation)

Ron Loewinsohn
http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/loewinsohn.html (Dalkey Archive Press)

Kirk Lumpkin
http://www.kirklumpkin.com/

Ise Lyfe
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=16295725

Judy Malloy
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy
_ http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Penelope.html (Eastgate)

Adam David Miller
http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=237 (MSU Press)
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_David_Miller (Wikipedia)

Laura Moriarty
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/moriarity/ (EPC)

Stephen Morse
http://www.juice-press.com/ (Juice)

Geoffrey O'Brien
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10744.html (UC Press)

Shailja Patel
http://www.shailja.com/

Jim Powell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Powell_(poet)(Wikipedia)

Stephen Ratcliffe
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/ratcliffe/

Zach Rogow
http://www.thirteenways.org/poets/Zack/zack.html (Thirteen Ways)

Leslie Scalapino
http://www.atelos.org/rhu.htm (atelos)

James Schevill
http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/New+and+Selected+Poems (Ohio University Press)

Peter Dale Scott
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/

Spencer Selby
http://www.selbyslist.com/#resume

Richard Silberg
http://www.redhen.org/authorDetail.asp?authorID=106 (Red Hen Press)

Christopher Sindt
http://latinostudies.nd.edu/momotombo/landofgive.html (Momotombo Press)
http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/academics/schools/school-of-liberal-arts/departments-programs/mfa-creative-writing/faculty.html?fac=333&pg=home
(St. Mary's College of California)

GP Skratz
http://www.scn.org/arts/realpoetik/skratz.g.p.2-20-98.htm

John Oliver Simon
http://www.josimon.com/

Gary Soto
http://garysoto.com/
_ http://www.chroniclebooks.com/site/ catalog/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=3704 (Chronicle Books)

Juliana Spahr
http://people.mills.edu/jspahr/

Malka Heifetz Tussman
http://wsupress.wayne.edu/judaica/literature/tussmanwte.htm
(Selected Poems of Malka Heifetz Tussman, Translated ans Edited by Marcia Falk, Wayne State University Press)

Julia Vinograd
http://juliavinograd.com/
_ http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/vinograd.html (Empty Mirror Books)

Gerald Vizenor
http://www.nativewiki.org/Gerald_Vizenor (Native Wiki)

Judy Wells
http://www.scarlettanager.com/authors/wells.html (Scarlet Tanager)

Al Young
http://www.alyoung.org/

Dean Young
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/229 (poets.org)

Bernice Zamora
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/zamora_bernice.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Etel Adnan
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/adnan_etel.html (Voices from the Gaps)

David Bromige
http://jacketmagazine.com/22/brom-powel-iv.html
(in conversation with Doug Powell - Jacket)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bromige (Wikipedia)

Janine Canan
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=224944578

Gillian Conoley
http://www.wavepoetry.com/authors/34 (Wave Books)

Clark Coolidge
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/coolidge/

Drew Dellinger
http://www.drewdellinger.org/

Richard Denner
http://www.juice-press.com/poetry/links/dennerbios.html (Juice)

Albert Flynn DeSilver
http://www.theowlpress.com/desilver.html

Geri Digiorno
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/04/NBGKGFH2MR1.DTL (SF Chronicle)

Terry Ehret
http://literaryfolk.wordpress.com/about/ (Sonoma County Literary Update)

Armando Garcia-Davila
http://www.armandogd.com/

Dana Gioia
http://www.danagioia.net/

Robert Grenier
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/grenier/ (EPC)
_ http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Grenier.html (PENNsound)

Elizabeth Carothers Herron
http://www.elizabethherron.net/

Katherine Hastings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Hastings (Wikipedia)

Paul Hoover
http://www.paulhooverpoetry.blogspot.com/
_ http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hoover/ (EPC)

Susan Kennedy
http://cpits.org/pt/sonoma/s.kennedy.htm (California Poets In The Schools)

Carolyn Kizer
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/57 (poets.org)

Dana Teen Lomax
http://www.palmpress.org/press/index.php?id=28 (Palm Press)

Jennie Orvino
http://soundofpoetry.com/

Kay Ryan
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/352 (poets.org)

Mike Tuggle
http://literaryfolk.wordpress.com/sonoma-countys-poet-laureate-mike-tuggle/
(Sonoma County Literary Update)

Francis X. Alarcon
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2003/May03/alarcon.htm (Poetry Magazine)

Luke Breit
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?authorid=516 (AuthorsDen)

Armand Brint
http://www.artsmendocino.org/html/articles001ArmandBrint.htm (Arts Council of Mendocino County)

Christopher Buckley
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/buckley/index.html (UC Riverside)

Joshua Clover
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10497.html (UC Press)

Charles Entrekin
http://www.charlesentrekin.com/

Gail Entrekin
http://www.entrekin.net/pages/gail.html

Molly Fisk
http://www.mollyfisk.com/

Albert Garcia
http://www.bearstarpress.com/books/skunkTalk.htm (Bear Star Press)

Xico González
http://www.xicogonzalez.com

Juan Felipe Herrera
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1215_reg.html
(Temple University Press)

Lawson Inada
http://www.writersontheedge.org/inada.html (Nye Beach Writers' Series)

Michael Jaime-Becerra
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/jayme/index.html (UC Riverside)

Philip Levine
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/19 (poets.org)

Shaunna Oteka McCovey
http://www.nativewiki.org/Shaunna_Oteka_McCovey (Native Wiki)

Mary Mackey
http://www.marymackey.com/

Sandra McPherson
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/faculty/mcpherson/mcpherson.htm (UC Davis)

José Montoya
http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/montoya_toc.html
(California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives)

Terry Moore
http://www.terrymoore.info/

Tomás Rivera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Rivera (Wikipedia)

Wendy Rose (Hopi Miwok)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/rose/rose.htm (Modern American Poetry)
__ http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A74 (IPL Native American Authors Project)

Dixie Salazar
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/books/bid1505.htm (University of Arizona Press)

Gary Snyder
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/faculty/snyder/snyder.htm (UC Davis)

Beth Spencer
http://www.csuchico.edu/pub/cs/spring_06/feature_04.html (Chico Statements)

Alice Walker
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ (Anniina's Alice Walker Page)

Joe Wenderoth
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/faculty/wenderoth/index.html (UC Davis)

Alan Bacher Williamson
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/faculty/williamson/williamson.htm (UC Davis)

Songs

• Fiction Writers - Los Angeles Area

• Fiction Writers - San Diego Area

• Fiction Writers - Santa Barbara Area

• Fiction Writers - South Bay, Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, Monterey Peninsula, Big Sur

• Fiction Writers - San Francisco
  
• Fiction Writers - East Bay, Contra Costa

• Fiction Writers - North Bay, Marin, Wine Country, Russian River, North

• Fiction Writers - Solano, Sacramento, Davis, Central Valley, Gold Country, Sierras, Desert

Kathy Acker
(1947-1997)
_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Acker

Oscar Zeta Acosta
(1935-?)
http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/oscar_zeta_acosta.html
(The Biography Project)

Richard Armory
(1927-1981)
http://home.earthlink.net/~richardamory.com/ (The Loon Society)
_ http://www.tlavideo.com/product/2-0-211604_song-of-the-loon.html?sn=1215 (TLA)

Gertrude Atherton
(1857-1948)
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/atherton.html (The Literary Gothic)

Mary Austin
(1868-1934)
http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/mary_austin/page49.html (Owens Valley History)

Lucia Berlin
(1936-2004)
http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/titles/berlin.htm (Black Sparrow Books)

Kay Boyle
(1902-1992)
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/boyle/boyle.htm (Modern American Poetry)
_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Boyle (Wikipedia)

Marion Zimmer Bradley
(1930-1999)
http://mzbworks.home.att.net/bio.htm

Richard Brautigan
(1935-1984)
http://www.brautigan.net (Brautigan Bibliography and Archive)

Octavia Butler
(1947-2006)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/260959_butlerobit26ww.html (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
_ http://www.sfwa.org/members/butler/

Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914?)
http://www.biercephile.com/

Charles Bukowski
(1920-1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski (Wikipedia)

Celeste DeBlasis
(1946-2001)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_De_Blasis
(Wikipedia)

Harriet Doerr
(1910-2002)
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/doerr.html
(Green Library, Stanford University)
_ http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/1997/novdec/articles/doerr.html
(Stanford Magazine)

Raymond Chandler
(1870-1959)
http://home.comcast.net/~mossrobert/

Amanda Davis
(1970-2003)
http://wonderwhenyoullmissme.com/

Philip K. Dick
(1928-1982)
http://www.philipkdick.com/

John Fante
(1909-1983)
http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/JFante.htm (Spirit of America Bookstore)

Howard Fast
(1914-2003)
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAfast.htm (Spartacus)

Lion Feuchtwanger
(1884-1958)
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/aboutfeuchtwanger.html
(Feuchtwanger Memorial Library)

M. F. K. Fisher
(1908-1992)
http://www.mfkfisher.net/

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html (F. Scott Fitzgerald Centenary)

Mary Hallock Foote
(1847-1938)
http://new.mynevadacounty.com/library/index.cfm?ccs=1018 (Nevada County Library)

C. S. Forester
(1899-1966)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/forester.htm (Authors' Calendar)

Erle Stanley Gardner
(1889-1970)
http://www.erlestanleygardner.com/

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935)
http://web.cortland.edu/gilman/
(The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society)
_ http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/gilman.htm
(The Yellow Wallpaper)

Dashiell Hammett
(1894-1961)
http://www.mysterynet.com/hammett/ (MysteryNet.com)

Bret Harte
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/harte.html (San Francisco History)

Jack Kerouac
(1922-1969)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kerouac.htm (Authors' Calendar)

Ken Kesey
(1935-2001)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/kkesey.htm (Books and Writers)

Janet Lewis
(1899-1998)
http://msupress.msu.edu/authorbio.php?authorID=286
(Michigan State University Press)

Jack London
(1876-1916)
http://london.sonoma.edu/
(The Jack London Online Collection)
_The World of Jack London -- http://www.jacklondons.net/index.html

Dennis Lynds (Michael Collins)
(1924-2005)
http://www.dennislynds.com/

Heinrich Mann
(1971-1950)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Mann
(Wikipedia)

Thomas Mann
(1875-1955)
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/tmann.html
(Feuchtwanger Memorial Library)

Henry Miller
(1891-1980)
http://www.henrymiller.org/ (Henry Miller Library)

Robert Duncan Milne
(1844-1899)
http://secure.grantbooks.com/z-author-milne-robert-duncan.html (Donald M. Grant, Publisher)

Charles Nordhoff
(1887-1947)
http://www.litweb.net/biography/144/Charles_Nordhoff.html (Litweb)

Walter Nordhoff
http://www.heydaybooks.com/public/books/jf.html (Heyday)

Frank Norris
(1870-1902)
http://www.cateweb.org/CA_Authors/Norris.html
(Janice Albert, California Authors)

Charles Gilman Norris
(1881-1995)
Kathleen Thompson Norris
(1890-1966)
http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/howells/cnorris.htm (Howells Society)

Scott O'Dell
(1898-1989)
http://www.scottodell.com/

Louis Owens (Choctaw, Cherokee)
(1948-2002)
http://www.nativewiki.org/Louis_Owens (Native Wiki)

John Rollin Ridge
(1827-1867)
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-508
(New Georgia Encyclopedia)

María Amparo Ruiz de Burton
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84summer/burton.htm
(The Journal of San Diego History)

William Saroyan
(1908-1981)
http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/index.html

Mary Ann Shaffer
(1934-2008)
http://www.guernseyliterary.com/

Upton Sinclair
(1878-1968)
http://www.online-literature.com/upton_sinclair/ (The Literature Network)

Clark Ashton Smith
http://www.oceanstar.com/cas/

Wallace Stegner
(1909-1993)
http://sfpl.lib.ca.us/librarylocations/main/envir/wsbio.htm (San Francisco Public Library)

John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)
http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html

Elizabeth Stromme
(1947-2006)
http://www.undergroundgardener.com/index.htm

Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
http://www.online-literature.com/twain/ (The Literature Network)
_ http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/ (PBS, Ken Burns)

Franz Werfel
(1890-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Werfel (Wikipedia)
__ http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/feuchtwanger/exiles/werfel.html
(Feuchtwanger Memorial Library)

Jessamyn West
(1903-1984)
http://www.jessamyn.com/jessamyn/jess.html

Nathanael West
(1903-1940)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/nwest.htm (Author's Calendar)

Chris Abani
http://www.chrisabani.com/

Paula Gunn Allen
http://www.nativewiki.org/Paula_Gunn_Allen (Native Wiki)

Mark Axelrod
http://www1.chapman.edu/~axelrod/

Aimee Bender
http://www.flammableskirt.com/

Gregory Benford
http://www.gregorybenford.com/

Ray Bradbury
http://www.raybradbury.com/

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard
http://www.ceciliabrainard.com
_ http://www.palhbooks.com/cbrainardhome.html (Philippine American Literary House)

Chieh Chieng
http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/default.asp?id=893§ion=2 (Bloomsbury USA)

Wanda Coleman
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/118

M.D. Coverly
http://califia.us/

Sara Davidson
http://www.saradavidson.com/

Kate Gale
http://www.kategale.com/

Alicia Gaspar de Alba
http://www.chavez.ucla.edu/gaspar.html (UCLA)

Glen David Gold
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1016733#bio (Barnes & Noble)

Denise Hamilton
http://www.denisehamilton.com/

Dana Johnson
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=36922 (Random House)

Jennifer Kaufman
http://www.aversionofthetruth.com/

Chris Kraus
http://www.semiotexte.com/authors/kraus.html

Diane Lefer
http://www.dramatistsguildweb.com/members/diane/

Aimee Liu
http://www.aimeeliu.net/

Karen Mack
http://www.aversionofthetruth.com/

Alejandro Morales
http://www.chusmahouse.com/titles.htm
(Chusma House Publications)
__ http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1645 (UCSB)

Carol Muske-Dukes
http://www.carolmuskedukes.com/

Daniel Olivas
http://www.danielolivas.com/index.html

Luis Rodriguez
http://www.luisjrodriguez.com/

Carolyn See
http://www.carolynsee.com/

Lisa See
http://www.lisasee.com/

Barry Siegel
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=4970 (UC Irvine)

Susana Chávez-Silverman
http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/Presskits/Chavez-Silverman.html
(U Wisconsin Press)

Jervey Tervalon
http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=25&pid=357301 (Simon & Schuster)

Lisa Tucker
http://www.lisatucker.com/

Alma Luz Villanueva
http://www.almaluzvillanueva.com/

Marcos Villatoro
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=59108 (Random House)

Helena Maria Viramontes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Helena_Viramontes(Wikipedia)

Marianne Wiggins
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2003_mwiggins.html (National Book Foundation)

Geoffrey Wolff
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=33601
(Random House)

Paula L. Woods
http://www.woodsontheweb.com/

David Foster Wallace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace (Wikipedia)

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
http://literature.ucsd.edu/faculty/sbynum.cfm (UCSD)

Mel Freilicher
http://www.bigbridge.org/MEL-FRI.HTM (Big Bridge)

William Luvaas
http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v3n1/fiction/luvaas_w/index.htm (Blackbird)

David Matlin
http://literature.sdsu.edu/matlin/ (SDSU)

Joanne Meschery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Meschery (Wikipedia)

Jim Miller
http://www.oupress.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=978-0-8061-3807-7
(University of Oklahoma Press)

T. Jefferson Parker
http://www.tjeffersonparker.com/

Daniel Reveles
http://www.danielreveles.com/

Patricia Santana
http://patriciasantana.net/

Anna Joy Springer
http://literature.ucsd.edu/faculty/aspringer.cfm (UCSD)

Susan Vreeland
http://www.svreeland.com/

Joseph Wambaugh
http://josephwambaugh.net/

Richard Barre
http://www.booksnbytes.com/authors/barre_richard.html

T. Coraghessan Boyle
http://www.tcboyle.com/

Fannie Flagg
http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-flagg-fannie.asp
(Bookreporter.com)

Sue Grafton
http://www.suegrafton.com/

Jane Heller
http://www.janeheller.com/

Daniel Jaffe
http://danieljaffe.tripod.com/

Michael Petracca
http://members.cox.net/mpetracca/

Bo Caldwell
http://www.siliconvalleyreads.org/2007-08/Distant.asp
(Silicon Valley Reads)

Ron Hansen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Hansen_(novelist) (Wikipedia)

Khaled Hosseini
http://www.khaledhosseini.com/

James D. Houston
http://www.jamesdhouston.com/

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
http://www.janmstore.com/jeannewhouston.html
(Japanese American National Museum)

Laurie R. King
http://www.laurierking.com/

John L'Heureux
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/lheureux.htm (Nebraska Center for Writers)

Nathaniel Mackey
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/468 (Poets.org)

Claudia MonPere McIsaac
http://californialegacy.org/project_scholars/mcisaac.html
(California Legacy Project)

Nina Marie Martínez
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/05.26.04/martinez-0422.html (Metroactive)

Ann Packer
http://www.annpacker.com/

Rob Swigart
http://www.eastgate.com/people/Swigart.html (Eastgate)

Elizabeth Tallent
http://english.stanford.edu/bio.php?name_id=116 (Stanford)

Gloria L. Velásquez
http://cla.calpoly.edu/~gvelasqu/main.html

Darryl Babe Wilson
http://www.heydaybooks.com/public/books/mswd.html (Heyday)
_ http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A407 (Native American Authors Project)

Lolly Winston
http://www.lollywinston.com/

Tobias Wolff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Wolff (Wikipedia)

Anita Amirrezvani
http://www.bloodofflowers.com/index.html

Kathleen de Azevedo
http://www.kathleenazevedo.com/

Martha Conway
http://marthaconway.com/

Carl Djerassi
http://www.djerassi.com/

Dave Eggers
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/eggers/eggers.html

Stephen Elliott
http://www.stephenelliott.com

Ernest J. Finney
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8320.html (UC Press)

Lynn Freed
http://www.lynnfreed.com/

Joe Gold
http://thelamppostmotel.com/

Oakley Hall
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000013845,00.html (Penguin Group)

Sherril Jaffe
http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/titles/jaffe.htm (Black Sparrow Books)

Diane Johnson
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/diane_johnson.html (Penguin)

Kevin Killian
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/killian/ (EPC)

Leo Litwak
http://www.elleonliteraryarts.org/b_litwak.php (El Leon Literary Arts)

Armistad Maupin
http://www.armisteadmaupin.com/

Diana O'Hehir
http://www.dianaohehir.com/

Cecile Pineda
http://home.earthlink.net/~cecilep/

Peter Plate
http://www.sevenstories.com/author/index.cfm?fa=ShowAuthor&Person_ID=75

Vikram Seth
http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth89 (British Council)

Danielle Steel
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/steel/ (Random House)

Susan Steinberg
http://fc2.org/steinberg/steinberg.htm (FC2)

Piri Thomas
http://www.cheverote.com/piri.html

Amy Tan
http://www.amytan.net/

Gail Tsukiyama
http://literati.net/Tsukiyama/

Alfredo Véa
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/gods_go_begging.html (Penguin)

Vendela Vida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendela_Vida (Wikipedia)

Marianne Villanueva
http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/mupress/details/villanueva_mayoroftheroses.html
(Miami University Press)
__ http://anthropologist.wordpress.com/ (Blog)

Kim Addonizio
http://www.kimaddonizio.com/

Mimi Albert
http://www.mimialbert.com/

Michael Andre Bernstein
http://english.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/depts/english/directory-faculty.cgi?hiMode=detail&record=102 (Berkeley English)

Dorothy Bryant
http://dorothybryantwriter.com/index.html

Ernest Callenbach
http://www.ernestcallenbach.com/

Vikram Chandra
http://www.vikramchandra.com

Michael Chabon
http://www.michaelchabon.com

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/

Percival Everett
http://www.blueflowerarts.com/percival.html (Blue Flower Arts)
_ http://aalbc.com/authors/percivaleverett.htm
(African American Literature Book Club)

Thomas Farber
http://www.thomasfarber.org/index.php

Gloria Frym
http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100261920 (City Lights)

Barry Gifford
http://www.barrygifford.com/

James Janko
http://www.curbstone.org/authdetail.cfm?AuthID=157 (Curbstone)

Maxine Hong Kingston
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/kingston_maxine_hong.html (Voices from the Gaps)
_ http://www.time.com/time/asia/2006/heroes/at_kingston.html (Time)

Wendy Lesser
http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375424007 (Pantheon)

Yiyun Li
http://www.yiyunli.com/

Erika Mailman
http://www.erikamailman.com/

Linda Watanabe McFerrin
http://www.lwmcferrin.com/index.html

Terry McMillan
http://www.terrymcmillan.com/
__ http://aalbc.com/authors/terry.htm (African American Literature Book Club)

Judy Malloy
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy

Micheline Aharonian Marcom
http://www.michelinemarcom.com/

Cornelia Nixon
http://www.mills.edu/academics/faculty/eng/cnixon/cnixon.php# (Mills College)

Marta Randall
http://www.scripsit.com/MartaRandall.html

Cornelia Read
http://www.corneliaread.com/cornelia.html

Ishmael Reed
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/reed/about.htm (Modern American Poetry)

Elizabeth Rosner
http://www.elizabethrosner.com/index.html

Theodore Roszak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roszak_(scholar) (Wikipedia)

Darieck Scott
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~africam/faculty/scott.html (UC Berkeley)

Floyd Salas
http://www.floydsalas.com/

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=71677 (Random House)

Lois Silverstein
http://loissilverstein.com/index.html

Dashka Slater
http://www.dashkaslater.com/
__ http://www.chroniclebooks.com/dashkaslater.html (Chronicle Books)

Dirk van Nouhuys
http://www.wandd.com

Gerald Vizenor
http://www.nativewiki.org/Gerald_Vizenor (Native Wiki)
__ http://www.upne.com/0-8195-5304-2.html (UPNE)

Ayelet Waldman
http://www.ayeletwaldman.com/

Brenda Webster
http://www.well.com/~brenda1/

Chester Aaron
http://www.chesteraaron.com/

Etel Adnan
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/adnan_etel.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Daniel Alarcón
http://danielalarcon.com/

Isabel Allende
http://www.isabelallende.com/

Maya Angelou
http://www.mayaangelou.com/
__ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87 (Academy of American Poets)

William Babula
http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/experts/babula.shtml
(Sonoma State)

Maxine Chernoff
http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_chernoff.html (Apogee Press)
__ http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~wsguild/faculty/chernoff.html

Joan Frank
http://www.joanfrank.org/

Cristina Garcia
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/garcia_cristina.html (Voices from the Gaps)

Leonard Gardner
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6891.html (UC Press)

Joe Gores
http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/goresu00.htm (Notre Dame Magazine)

Gerlad Haslam
http://www.geraldhaslam.com/

Molly Giles
http://www.speakingofstories.org/Author%20Bios/molly_giles.htm (Speaking of Stories)

Anne Lamott
http://www.barclayagency.com/lamott.html (Steven Barclay Agency)

Marcia Muller
http://www.marciamuller.com/

Greg Sarris
http://us.penguingroup.com/static/rguides/us/watermelon_nights.html(Penguin Group)
__ http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/newsrelease/archives/000438.html (Sonoma State University)

Jose Antonio Villarreal
http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/jose.html (Santa Clara University's homepage on diversity)
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Antonio_Villarreal (Wikipedia)

Alice Walker
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ (Anniina's Alice Walker Page)

Ann Bannon
http://www.annbannon.com/index.html

Lucy Corin
http://wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu/faculty/corin/default.htm (UC Davis)

Joan Didion
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/joan-didion/ (Bookrags)

Charles Entrekin
http://www.charlesentrekin.com/

Jack Forbes(Powhatan-Renape-Lenape)
http://nas.ucdavis.edu/Forbes/forbes.html
__ http://nas.ucdavis.edu/nasforbes.htm (UC Davis)

Karen Joy Fowler
http://www.sfwa.org/members/Fowler/

Sands Hall
http://www.sandshall.com/

Pam Houston
http://pamhouston.net/

Laila Lalami
http://www.lailalalami.com/

John Lescroart
http://www.johnlescroart.com/

Mary Mackey
http://www.marymackey.com/

Stephen Minot
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/minot/index.html (UC Riverside)

James Rollins
http://www.jamesrollins.com/

Susan Straight
http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/people/straight/index.html (UC Riverside)

William T. Vollmann
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/authorpages/vollmann/vollmann.html (McSweeney's)

Andrew Winer
http://www.andrewwiner.com/

Dwight Yates
http://www.snakenationpress.org/yates.html (Snake Nation Press)

Songs

• Playwriting

Robert Chesley
(1943-1990)
http://www.artistswithaids.org/artforms/music/catalogue/chesley.html (The Estate Project)

Lorraine Hansberry
(1930-1965)
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/hansberry_larraine.html (Voices from the Gaps)

William Inge
(1913-1973)
http://www.ingecenter.org/ (William Inge Center for the Arts)

Eugene O'Neill
(1888-1953)
http://www.eugeneoneill.org/history.htm (Tao House)

William Saroyan
(1908-1981)
http://www.williamsaroyansociety.org/index.html

Franz Werfel
(1890-1945)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Werfel (Wikipedia)

Johnna Adams
http://www.lickspittles.com/

Nancy Agabian
http://www.armeniandrama.org/people.php?p=nancy-agabian (Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance)

Luis Alfaro
http://www.newdramatists.org/luis_alfaro.htm (New Dramatists)

Trevor Allen
http://www.blackboxtheatre.com/

Hector Aristizabal
http://www.imaginaction.org/

William Babula
http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/experts/babula.shtml (Sonoma State)

Marc Bamuthi Joseph
http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=165 (Speak Out!)

Jeannie Barroga
http://jeanniesplays.org/index.html

John Belluso
http://www.newdramatists.org/john_belluso.htm (New Dramatists)

Andrew Black and Patricia Milton
http://www.bendoverproductions.zoomshare.com/0.html

Adam Bock
http://www.playscripts.com/author.php3?authorid=308 (Playscripts Inc)

Bridget Carpenter
http://www.newdramatists.org/bridget_carpenter.htm (New Dramatists)

Stacie Chaiken
http://www.lookingforlouie.com/

Adam Chanzit
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/bca/events.html#4 (Consortium for the Arts)

Theresa Chavez
http://aboutpd.info/?q=theresa (About Productions)

Samantha Chanse
http://www.whiskeyandacigarette.org/about/index.php

Sudipto Chatterjee
http://illuminations.berkeley.edu/archives/2005/article.php?volume=9&story=1 (Illuminations>/i>)

Roy Conboy
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~wsguild/faculty/conboy.html (SFSU)

Jason Craig
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/artsculture/beowulf_triumphant/Content?oid=743023
(East Bay Express)

Billy Crystal
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000345/bio (IMDb)

Carl Djerassi
http://www.djerassi.com/

Jon Dorf
http://www.jondorf.com/

Carolyn Dunn
http://www.carolyndunn.com/

Rick Foster
http://duendedrama.org/plfoster.htm (Duende)

Will Franken
http://www.willfranken.com/

Brian Freeman
http://alpertawards.org/archive/winner99/freeman.html
(Alpert Awards)

Mary Fengar Gail
http://www.playscripts.com/author.php3?authorid=251 (Playscripts)

Kate Gale
http://www.kategale.com/

Philip Kan Gotanda
http://www.philipkangotanda.com/index.shtml

Lillian Groag
http://www.colonytheatre.org/bios/groagLillian.html (Colony Theatre)

Michael Halperin
http://www.michaelhalperin.com/

Levan D. Hawkins
http://www.blackstuff.net/wst_page5.html (Black Stuff)

Bob Hayden
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hayden-bob.html (Doolee)

Richard Hellesen
http://www.theater2k.com/hellesen1.html (theater2k)

Aaron Henne
http://www.colonytheatre.org/bios/henneAaron.html (The Colony Theatre)

Rickerby Hinds
http://www.theatre.ucr.edu/people/hinds.html (UC Riverside)

Sidney Howard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Howard (Wikipedia)

Ron Hutchinson
http://www.intiman.org/plays/RHutchinson.html (Intiman Theatre)

David Henry Hwang
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/authors_depth/hwang.htm
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Henry_Hwang (Wikipedia)

Naomi Iizuka
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1295 (UCSB)

D.W. Jacobs
http://www.foghouse.com/backstage/biographies.html(Foghouse Productions)

Lynne Kaufman
http://www.lynnekaufman.com/

Katie Ketchum
http://www.katieketchum.com/home.html

Aurorae Khoo
http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/189_1218.aspx
(Radcliffe)

Kevin Killian
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/killian/ (EPC)

Kristen Lazarian
http://www.netspace.org/~icwp/klazarian.html

Russ Lees
http://www.russlees.com/

Diane Lefer
http://www.dramatistsguildweb.com/members/diane/

Simon Levy
http://www.simonlevy.com/

Diana Ljungaeus
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790748/ (IMDb)

Anita Loos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Loos (Wikpedia)

Ross MacLean
http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsM/MacLeanRoss.htm (doolee.com)

Lynn Manning
http://www.lynnmanning.com/

Steve Martin
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9400755 (The Biography Channel)

Dakin Matthews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakin_Matthews (Wikipedia)

Perry Miyake
http://www.perrymiyake.com/

Cherríe Moraga
http://www.cherriemoraga.com/

Kevin Morales
http://www.thtc.org/season/2005_06/peterandwendy.html
(Town Hall Theatre Company of Lafayette)

Julie Marie Myatt
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-myatt25-2008may25,0,4526721.story
(LA Times)

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
http://www.peternachtrieb.com/

Shahid Nadeem
http://www.levantinecenter.org/A911Gallery02/a911gallerydrama.html (Levantine Center)

Rick Najera
http://www.ricknajera.com/

Phil Olson
http://www.philolson.net/

Henry Ong
http://www.henryong.freeola.com/

Catherine Pelonero
http://www.catherinepelonero.c