Kathryn Brown is a retired captain with the San Francisco Police Department. She is currently working on a collection of short stories based on her experiences while working in high crime areas of the city, particularly the Tenderloin. Her intention is to take the reader beyond the surface experience of interactions between police and the public, to provide a deeper understanding of the psychological and perhaps spiritual impact of those encounters.
Her story “Misty” appears at Two Hawks Quarterly and you can read her story "Ambushed" online at the Baltimore Review or in the 2016 print edition.

Her short story“Smog Check" is here on Persimmon Tree and Hippocampus magazine published “Beagle On My Knee," a story from her collection of veterinary stories, "Front Desk." She lives in Richmond, CA. with her veterinarian husband. In September 2015 Jenny read a story at the reading series Why There are Words in Sausalito and more recently had a story published in The Examined Life journal.
Christie B. Cochrell is an ardent lover of the play of light, the journeyings of

101 Words and Dime Show Review and Birdland Journal.
Be sure to visit her blog: http://writingwithlight-bonnard3.blogspot.com/



For more information about Chris, his cookbook, dessert business, workshops and writing retreats, please see www.laguna-writers.com.

Carol Harada is a healing practitioner at Deep River Healing and a member of Laguna Writers community in San Francisco. She incorporates awareness of healing and creative processes into her short stories and novel-in-progress. Carol’s work has been published in Quail Bell Magazine; Gravel; Fickle Muses; Still Point Arts Quarterly; The Saturday Evening Post; Bryant Literary Review; FlashFlood Journal; Lake: a Collection of Voices, volumes 4, 5, and 6; and Birdland Journal and Dime Show Review. She has read at the esteemed literary series Why There Are Words and Bay Area Generations. Some excerpts of her novels-in-progress are available at http://www.carolharadacreates.com



Her poetry and prose have been published by Haunted Waters Press, Laguna Writers of San Francisco, Juddhill.com, Gravel , The Eunoia Review, Tell Us a Story, Dime Show Review and Adanna. --> Her manuscript, Held—a book about her father written in the Haibun style, was published in early 2018 by Red Bird Chapbooks. Savorsmith, her business, is based on everything she loves—food, travel, books, and the creative spirit. You can learn more about it at www.savorsmith.com.

