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Stephanie Kegan is the author of the novel Golden State published by Simon & Schuster in 2015 and in trade paperback in 2016. Her previous books include The Baby, a novel published by the Berkley Publishing Group, and Places to Go with Children in Southern California, (six editions) published by Chronicle Books. Her nonfiction has appeared in Self, Los Angeles Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and elsewhere. She lives in Los Angeles. She attended the Community of Writers in 2003 and 2005. www.stephaniekegan.com
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Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Northern California Book Prize. She lives in Oakland, California, and her second novel, What Lies Between Us, was released in February 2016. She attended the Community of Writers in 2011 and 2012. www.nayomimunaweera.com
Marian Palaia is the author of The Given World, longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (Simon and Schuster, 2015). Born in Riverside, California, she has lived in San Francisco (on and off) since 1985. Other places she has lived include Montana, Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, and Nepal, where she was a Peace Corps volunteer. She has been a teacher, a truck driver and a bartender. At one time she was the littlest logger in Lincoln, Montana. www.marianpalaia.com
Juan Alvarado Valdivia is a Peruvian American writer who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is the author of ¡Cancerlandia!: A Memoir. He received his MFA in creative writing from Saint Mary’s College of California. This upcoming winter, he will be a resident at the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. He lives in Oakland.He attended the Community of Writers in 2013. www.juanalvaradovaldivia.com/
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Heather Young is the author of the novel The Lost Girls, which was published in July 2016 by William Morrow/HarperCollins. After receiving her law degree from the University of Virginia, she practiced law in San Francisco for a number of years before beginning her writing career in 2009. She received an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars in 2011, and continued her education at the the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley in 2013. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two children, where she is currently at work on her second novel, Lovelock. www.heatheryoungwriter.com
