EL LEÓN AUTHORS:
Chester Aaron | Born in 1923 in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, Chester Aaron served in World War II. After attending UCLA, UC Berkeley, and San Francisco State, he joined the faculty of Saint Mary's College, retiring in 1997. Author of novels, stories, and memoirs, he is known world-wide as an expert on garlic, growing more than fifty kinds on his farm in Sonoma County.
Aaron's recent short story collection is Symptoms of Terminal Passion.
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Gavan Daws | Daws has written eleven books, published worldwide in a life that has taken him back and forth between the United States and Australia, with stints in Asia and Europe. His documentary films have won awards internationally; his songs have been performed at the Hollywood Bowl and the Waikiki Shell, and in clubs from San Francisco to Greenwich Village.
Daws' recent play is Bite The Hand.
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Anthony Dubovsky | Dubovsky was born in San Diego, California, in 1945. He studied with Willard Midgette at Reed College, and has lived in Warsaw, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Jerusalem. He is the recipient of the first annual Adler Award, and his paintings have been exhibited internationally. He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dubovsky's recent book of drawings and prose is Jerusalem: To Know by Living.
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Charles Entrekin | Born and raised in the Bible Belt, in Birmingham, Alabama, Charles Entrekin has lived in Northern California for more than thirty years. Author of several collections of poetry, including Casting for the Cutthroat, and for two decades managing editor of the Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, he is currently managing editor of Hip Pocket Press. Red Mountain, Birmingham, Alabama, 1965, is his first novel.
Entrekin's upcoming book is Red Mountain
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Norma Farber | Poet, concert singer, actress, novelist, translator; wife, mother, grandmother, widow, Norma Farber (1909-1984) was the author of more than thirty books. Her poems appeared in periodicals including The Christian Science Monitor, The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
Farber's collection of poetry is A Birth In the Family.
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Stephen Kessler | Stephen Kessler is a poet, translator, essayist and editor whose writings have appeared in books, anthologies, magazines and newspapers across the United States since the late 1960s. Born in Los Angeles in 1947, he has degrees in literature from Bard College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of eight books and chapbooks of original poetry and more than a dozen books of poetry and fiction in translation, including Written in Water: The Prose Poems of Luis Cernuda, which received a 2004 Lambda Literary Award. He was a founding editor and publisher of Alcatraz, an international journal, and The Sun, a Santa Cruz weekly, among other periodicals and independent publishing ventures. He is a contributing editor of Poetry Flash and the editor of The Redwood Coast Review. For more about Stephen Kessler visit www.stephenkessler.com.
Kessler's upcoming book is Moving Targets
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Isaías Orozco-Lang | Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1974, Orozco-Lang has traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean. He currently lives in New York City.
Orozco-Lang's recent documentary photography book is Glimpses of La Yaguita.
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Leo Litwak | Recipient of John Simon Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, Leo Litwak has published two novels, two works of non-fiction, and articles in publications including The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and Tikkun. His novel Waiting for the News received the National Jewish Book Award; his short fiction has appeared in Best American Stories; and "The Eleventh Edition" received first prize in the 1990 O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Professor at San Francisco State University for more than thirty years, Leo Litwak lives in San Francisco.
Litwak's recent collection of short stories is Nobody's Baby.
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Pat Matsueda | Pat Matsueda was born in Fukuoka Prefecture in Japan, the daughter of a Japanese woman and a Japanese American soldier. She has lived at Itazuki and Hickam Air Force Bases and in Kalihi, Kaimuki, and points in between. She now resides in downtown Honolulu. In 1988, she received an Elliott Cades Award for Literature.
Matsueda's recent book is Stray.
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Shawna Yang Ryan | Child of parents who met during the Vietnam War when her father was stationed in Taiwan, Shawna Yang Ryan received a M.A. from the University of California, Davis, and teaches at City College of San Francisco. In 2002, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, and in 2006 received the Maurice Prize for Fiction. Locke 1928 is her first book.
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Paul Smyth | The poems of Paul Smyth have appeared in magazines and journals including The Atlantic Monthly and Poetry (which awarded him the Dillon Memorial Prize). His first collection, Conversions, published in 1974 by the University of Georgia Press, was followed by two books of poems illustrated by artist Barry Moser and a collection of epigrams. Paul Smyth died in late 2006, just after completing last corrections on the manuscript for A Plausible Light.
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Frank Stewart | Frank Stewart is the author of three previous books of poetry and the editor of over two dozen anthologies featuring contemporary translations of literature from throughout Asia and the Pacific. A recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award for his poetry, he has edited Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing since 1989. He lives in Hawai'i.
Stewart's recent collection of poems is By All Means.
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