| Sara McAulay Sara McA grew up in Virginia but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of short fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Black Warrior Review, California Quarterly, The Literary Review, Lodestar Quarterly, North American Review, Third Coast and ZYZZYVA, among others. She was the featured writer in the Summer '08 issue of riverbabble. Sara has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. From 1984 to 2008 she taught creative writing and literature at CSU East Bay (formerly CSU Hayward), where until 9/03 she was Director of the CW Program. She is now retired, a state that suits her very, very well. In recent years she has found herself drawn strongly back to her early loves, graphic arts and sculpture. Creating Photoshop graphics for Tattoo Highway, working with fused glass, or welding rusty washing-machine drums onto the hoods of junked cars keeps her off the streets and (mostly) out of trouble. After 25+ dogless years, in September '04 she wandered into the Berkeley EastBay Humane Society one afternoon, where she and her partner were adopted by a Kelpie mix, Miko, who now hangs out with Scrabble the cat. In 2006, another cat (Sky, a Siamese mix) and dog (Moxie, a border collie/ Australian shepherd) joined the family. The critters now have their own blog, focused mainly on the dogs' exploits in agility competition. Oh, and she's a grandma now! Evelyn Arcadia Bacon McAulay, formerly the World's Cutest Baby (TM), now the World's Most Awesome Toddler (TM), was born 10/7/06, in Portland, OR. |