Founder
Antoinette May

Antoinette's non-fiction includes the New York Times best seller, Adventures of a Psychic, a biography of psychic Sylvia Browne. Antoinette was the 1997 recipient of La Pluma de Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article on their country.

Faculty

In addition to NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, Young is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes, two American Books Awards, the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction, the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction. A beloved teacher, Young has taught writing, literature and creativity at Stanford, the University of California at Santa Cruz, San José State University, and the University of Michigan.

Appointed by Arnold Schwartzenegger, he served as poet laureate of California from 2005 through 2008.

The Sea, The Sky, And You, And I, a poetry & jazz audio CD recorded with bassist Dan Robbins, came out this year from Bardo Digital.

Kevin Arnold

He's recently completed and is actively marketing two novels, The Sureness of Horses and White Man's Blues.

Kevin received a Master of Fines Arts in Fiction from San Jose State University. He is the long-term president of Poetry Center San Jose, with headquarters in the historic home of California poet Edwin Markham. PCSJ is the parent organization to California Poets Festival and the national literary journal Caesura.

Sally Ashton

A short story, Roadside Trinity, won several Best Short Story awards and her screenplay, The Jeannette Rankin Story, has been optioned.
A new memoir, First Love Last, is currently with an agent, and her novel, Cry Dance, will be published early next year.

His areas of interest are analytic journalism, dynamic simulation models of publishing systems, complexity theory, the application of Geographic Information Systems in journalism and the impact of the digital revolution on journalism and journalism education.

He is the founder and co-director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism, Santa Fe, New Mexico."

He is the winner of the 2005 Vesle Fenstermaker Poetry Prize for Emerging Writers and the 2008 Jack Kerouac Prize for Poetry. Other honors include: finalist finishes for the T.S. Eliot Prize, Crab Orchard First Book Prize, Saturnalia First Book Award, Naomi Long Madgett Book Award, and WordWorks Prize. He has received scholarships to the Summer Literary Series in St. Petersburg Russia, the 2006 Idyllwild Summer Poetry Program, the Indiana University Writer's Conference, and the Napa Valley Writer's Conference.

His poetry and short stories have appeared in the Xavier Review, LA Review, Mochila Review, Boston University's The Comment, the Pushcart Prize nominated Out of the Blue Artists Unite, Poetry Now, Cave Canem Anthologies VIII and IX, The Ringing Ear, the NCPS 2006 Anthology, and Gathering Ground.

Indigo is a graduate member of the Artist's Residency Institute for Teaching Artists. Collaborative efforts include readings for the Sacramento Ballet and Artists Embassy Intl. Dancing Poetry Festival. Current projects include Ethos and the Dreamwheel (poetry), Hymns for the Damned (novel), and Live at the Excelsior (stage play).

In 1988 Donna's first story appeared in Key Magazine where she worked as the associate editor. Since then, she has traveled extensively through Europe, North America, Australia and the Pacific. Donna hiked the Milford Track in New Zealand, stalked kiwi by flashlight on Stewart Island, attended a gathering of Berber tribes, and walked on glaciers in Iceland.

Among her many credits as a magazine writer are national and international magazines such as Global Traveler, Continental Airlines, Cathay Pacific's Marco Polo, Preservation, Wine Country Living, Coastal Living, Marin at Home, and San Francisco Magazine. She also covered the West Coast for Smart Meetings and Meetings West.

Lucy's popular twin set of self-help books have held their place on bookstore shelves for more than thirteen years. In the meantime, they've been picked up by major book clubs and published in six languages.

• How to Romance the Woman You Love… The Way SHE Wants You To: (Random House)
• How to Romance the Man You Love… The Way HE Wants You To (Random House)

Lucy published her first two books while working full time in a corporate environment and raising her daughter as a single parent. "If I can do it, anyone can!" she says. Lucy loves to help others realize their own creative dreams. With an education in English literature, a background in marketing, a nose for research and a passion for sensual detail, Lucy easily moves through time, place and voice, bringing both creative fancy and authenticity to her work.