Rod Bauer
A Summer Idyll. A short short story.
Rod Bauer is editor of Spark.Prior
to entering the M.A. program at U.C. Davis, Rod spent 14 years in the computer software industry.
His fiction has been published in various literary magazines and reviews, and his plays performed
in small theatres on the West Coast. You can e-mail Rod at rdbauer@ucdavis.edu.
Steve Cassal
The Two Moms. A short story.
Steve Cassal's fiction has appeared in The Piedmont
Literary Review, Frank Magazine, AIM Magazine, and Spark. He lives
in Berkeley, California.
David Ira Cleary
Sequences. A short story.
I grew up in Colorado, got my B.A. at CU Boulder, and moved to San Francisco after the
earthquake. I've had stories published in Science Fiction Age, Full Spectrum II, and High
Fantastic: Colorado Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, and Science Fiction. I'm strongly considering
becoming a neurosurgeon once I've left my mark in fiction.
J. K. Colvin
Ravon the Revenger. A short story.
Employment: Twenty-seven years as a Coast Guard aviator (7000+ flight hours).
I've lived in all corners of the US, including Alaska, and Hawaii.
Did two years in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as the Coast Guard Attaché.
Had the pleasure of helping Baby Doc Duvalier, and his corrupt entourage,
sneak out of the country in the dead of night.
(We thought things would get better after he left. We guessed wrong.)
My wife asks me why I write. I tell her because it feels good when I stop.
Paige Davis
Poems
I am a second year graduate student of Poetry here at UCD.
I completed my BA in Creative Writing at Purdue University where I worked with
Marianne Boruch and Neil Myers.
Katie Degentesh
Poems
Katie is a second year student of Poetry in the UC Davis Creative Writing Program.
"Why the Man in the Moon Can't be Seen Tonight" appeared previously in issue #9 of the Plum Review.
You can send comments directly to Katie at kmdegentesh@ucdavis.edu.
Elana Kuczynski
Sinking. A short story.
Elana Kuczynski is a first year graduate fiction student. She is a
native of Southern California, but made the trek to Davis so she'd have an
excuse to ride bicycles more often. Elana graduated from UC Irvine in
1996; she majored in Comparative Literature. While a student at Irvine,
Elana earned the award for Best Humanities Honors Thesis for her collection
of short stories, Objects of Desire. Each story in that collection
featured an object traditionally deemed as "feminine" and looked at it from
a different angle. This story, "Sinking," is from a collection she is
currently working on, still untitled. All the stories star Mona, and in
some way they all deal with horses.
Augustus Rose
Home To Roost. A short story.
Augustus Rose is a former dentist. He resides in a (mostly empty)
water tower in Tulsa where he farms carp for pleasure. He attends therapy
regularly to work on his issues with chickens.