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| Joe Evanisko |
Joe Evanisko conducts online fiction workshops and a manuscript evaluation service for the University of California, Berkeley, Extension Online. He enjoys working with other writers, and sees his activities at Thunderegg Press as an extension of his role at the university. His stories have appeared in literary journals, including Santa Barbara Review, Maryland Review, and The G. W. Review. His fiction advanced to the semi-final round of the Chesterfield Writers' Film Project, based at Paramount Pictures, and established by Steven Spielberg's company, Amblin Entertainment. In 2002, he received the Honored Instructor Award for excellence in teaching from UC Berkeley Extension. Joe appreciates the thirty-foot commute to his office, and welcomes visits from his wife, son, and friends between his online sessions with writers across town and around the globe. |
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| Janet Thornburg |
Janet Thornburg's stories have been published in Lumina, Phoebe, In The Family, The MacGuffin, Phantasmagoria, The Distillery, and Carve Magazine. Her story "Pink Rods, Red Clouds, and a Rhubarb Pie" was chosen for Best of Carve Magazine, Volume Four, and .Split Shift. won an award from the Astraea Foundation. She has written and performed seven solo shows, and her poetry has appeared in Womanthology, A Collection of Colorado Women Poets and Most of the Holes Are Occupied: A Santa Fe Anthology. She lives with her partner and their two children in San Francisco, where she teaches at City College. |
| Alberto Ledesma |
Alberto Ledesma grew up in East Oakland as an undocumented immigrant kid. He is now a U.S. Citizen. After starting a promising career as a Berkeley PhD, he left academe to pursue life as a creative writer. Alberto's stories focus on the lives of undocumented Mexican immigrants struggling to survive without getting deported. He is a past winner of U.C. Irvine's Chicano/Latino Literary Prize for Poetry. His works have appeared in the Berkeley Poetry Review, Con/Safos, and Gary Soto's Chicano Chapbook Series. |