Published Members
Active Members of the California Writers Club, Berkeley Branch (published writers, authors, poets and qualified bloggers) are listed here with links to their work. Members may request a posting be added via the form at http://tinyurl.com/cwcbb-published-author.
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
Matilda’s Song • Out of the Dark • Polite Enemies • The Farmer and the Wood Nymph • Expect Trouble • Expect Deception • Expect Betrayal
“Ainsworth has penned a riveting story full of mysticism, intrigue, and nail-biting suspense.” —Affaire de Coeur Review Magazine
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Karen Arlen
They Came Singing: Songs from California’s History (book & CD) • Days of Gold! Songs of the California Gold Rush (book & CD) • Tutokanula: A Yosemite Legend (Musical Historical Play & CD)
I am co-author and publisher of books, CDs and plays on California History Through Song. These are of particular interest to educators, musicians and historians.
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Kristen Caven
The Vesuvian Affair • The Souls of Her Feet – book & musical • Perfectly Revolting: My Glamorous Cartooning Career • The Reason She Left and Other Stories • Sammy Sperm’s Guide to Safe Sex • The Bullying Antidote, The Winning Family, On the Wings of Self-Esteem (with Dr. Louise Hart)
“Kristen Caven brings the disciplined imagination of a thousand ballerinas and the incisive wit of a Gary Larson to her graphic essays on life, love, education, and the real meaning of everything.” —Libby Comeaux
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Gary Durbin
Nano-Uncertainty brings to life the strange world of high-tech in the Bay Area, while presenting the real danger of an unconstrained artificial intelligence.
“…will delight both thriller fans and sci-fi lovers.”
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Keith Mark Gaboury
Hello Universe Lovers • Oakland, I’m Not Dead
“Hello Universe Lovers is a time-bending journey into the ‘unmapped atmosphere’ where the ‘cosmos is alive.'” — Jennifer K. Sweeney
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Henry Hitz
White Knight, or how one man came to believe that he was the one who caused the San Francisco City Hall killings and the Jonestown Massacre
ʺA powerful tale set in San Francisco during the turbulent late ‘70s…An elegant debut novel.”— Clifford Irving, author of Final Argument and Trial
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Kymberlie Ingalls
A pioneer in blogging, having self-published online since 1997. Works include personal essay, prose, short fictional stories, and a memoir in progress. Beware of the occasional falling opinions.
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Bobbie Kinkead
Rhyonna’s Fright – a Faery Tale
“…it was empathizing, it felt deeply from the heart. What a wonderful achievement!” Linda Wall, Librarian and Storyteller
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Lily Iona MacKenzie
Novels: Freefall: A Divine Comedy • Fling! • Curva Peligrosa •
Poetry Collections: All This & No More Kings • blog for writers and readers
FREEFALL draws you in, shakes you up, and spits you out, more aware of the world than you might have consciously been bargaining for.
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Randall McNair
McNair’s work has been published in both American and Canadian literary journals. See McNairPoet.
Poet Laureate of the Absurd
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Amarjit Pannu
Amarjit is the author of Splintered Waters: Tryst with Destiny.
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Leena Prasad
iT felt Like A kiss: glimpses of art in the Mission District of San Francisco • not exactly haiku
I write because, well, I don’t remember a time when I was not a writer…
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Jan Steckel
Like Flesh Covers Bone • The Horizontal Poet • Mixing Tracks • The Underwater Hospital
“A retired pediatrician, Steckel is unflinchingly accurate, whether describing an erotic scene or vascular surgery… These poems are much more than scientific renderings of the body: They are stories about people loving, aging, getting sick, being born, and dying, and they are compassionately and eloquently told.” – Lucille Lang Day, author of 13 poetry collections, a children’s book, a textbook, and a PEN-literary-award-winning memoir.
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Terry Tierney
The Poet’s Garage , Lucky Ride (preorder)
[Tierney’s] language is pared back but also beautifully cadenced, placing [him] in a line with poets of the order of James Wright, Richard Hugo and B H Fairchild. Like them, his work appears to be largely autobiographical but with a mythic, elegiac sweep that incorporates classic American motifs and themes. –Review of The Poet’s Garage by Mark David Williams in The Lake
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Ami Urban
The Rabid • The Rabid: Addendum
“Romance, adventure, danger and passion. Readers will love Ami.” -Leigh Bridger, author of Soul Catcher
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Christine Volker
Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
“A riveting whodunit that makes full use of its dramatic setting.” –Kirkus Reviews
Photo by Ben Krantz.
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