Cathy Warner (The Painter is Here) lives in Boulder Creek, California with her husband and two daughters. Her work is scheduled to appear in The Charter Oak Review, and has been published in UC Davis Magazine, The Penwood Review and The Porter Gulch Review. She is the 2000 winner of the Mary Lonneberg Poetry Award, Cabrillo College Fiction Award, and National Steinbeck Center Fiction award. She is a lay preacher in the United Methodist Church and is writing a book of prayers and poetry for worship.

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