Redwood Coast Press

Redwood Coast Press is funded entirely by gifts and contributions.  Our labor is donated.  We do this because we love poetry and want to help bring more of it onto the planet in perfect-bound form.

Our Business

. . . is to bring new poetry into the world.

New Author

The winner of the first annual poetry competition is Rebekah Edwards.  Edwards has won many awards for her poetry including;  the Joseph Phelan Award for Poetry, San Francisco Foundation; the Eisner Award for Poetry, University of California at Berkeley; the Editor’s Prize, New Delta Review; the State of California Ina Coolbrith Award in Poetry;  the Mary Merritt Henry Award for Poetry, Mills College; and the Malcolm Wood Writing Award, California College of Arts. She holds creative and scholarly degrees from Mills College and the University of California, Berkeley.

Order bite to eat place

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Who We Are:  Emeritus

After Redwood Coast Press published Andrea Adolph's first book, Improv (1994), Andrea joined the press to co-edit bite to eat place.  She is currently Associate Professor of English at Kent State University, Stark Campus. She holds an MFA in creative writing, and publishes poetry and creative nonfiction regularly.  Her recent book is Food and Femininity in Twentieth-Century British Women's Fiction.

Julie Chisholm, a Redwood Coast Press contest editor for the first annual competition, is a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Houston, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry and literature in 2002.  Poems from her chapbook, "Snap-Shooting at Stars," (Red Booth Press, 2003) won the James A. Michener Fellowship (judge Jean Valentine) in 2000.  She is currently Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at Cal Maritime, a campus of the California State University system.  She is particularly excited by poems that work together to form/hint at "spiritual ideologies."  Her favorite poet is Emily Dickinson.

Who We Are:  bite to eat place authors

Who We Are: Current Editors

Anne F. Walker is the publishing editor for the press.  Her books include The Exit Show, Into the Peculiar Dark, Pregnant Poems, and Six Months Rent.  On her aesthetic choices she writes: "Rather than link myself with one particular school of poetics I utilize fusion. I see value in a tremendous range of forms and explorations."

Angela Szczepaniak is the Redwood Coast Press editor for the press in 2009-10.  She is a PhD Candidate at the University at Buffalo, neck-deep in a dissertation on innovative poetry, detective fiction, and comic books. Her first poetry book is Unisex Love Poems. She thinks of words as solid, tangible, almost like you can feel them on the tongue, savour them. She likes writers who engage playfully with the plasticity of language, so that pieces are surprising, exuberant, funny, repulsive… something that hits viscerally.

Competition editors for the 2011 book(s) are still under consideration.  All editorial decisions are made collectively.

Who We Are: Design

Keith Mosier, poet and visual artist, lives between Ketchum, Idaho and San Franscico spending his spare time fly-fishing and writing.  He earned his MFA in poetry and will provide layout and design for Then's Elsewhere.

Who We Are: Icon

Andrea Rosati's image of redwood trees will be incorporated into our logo.