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Carry the Light: Winning Stories, Poems and Essays from the San Mateo County Fair, 2016 Paperback – May 14, 2016
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- Print length340 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMay 14, 2016
- Dimensions6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101937818438
- ISBN-13978-1937818432
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- Publisher : Sand Hill Review Press (May 14, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 340 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1937818438
- ISBN-13 : 978-1937818432
- Item Weight : 1.28 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.85 x 9 inches
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About the authors
Growing up in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, I wanted to be a polar bear. That didn’t work out, which is probably a good thing given the rapidly disappearing polar ice. Instead, I became a biologist. But after earning a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree from Dartmouth College, I discovered I was all thumbs in the lab. Laboratory research was definitely not in my future.
In my first “real” job, I discovered that a lot of people don’t like to write, but I’ve always loved putting ideas on paper. Every job I’ve ever had became a writing job. When I worked as the quality control director at a vegetable cannery, I wrote everything from reports for the Food and Drug Administration to responses to customer complaints. When I worked as a teacher at a training school for nannies, who wrote the school newsletter? You guessed it. Then I was asked to write a newspaper column about games and another one about parenting. Finally, I just gave up and became a full-time writer. Over the past thirty years, I have written everything from restaurant reviews to true-life stories to mysteries to textbooks.
To date, I have twelve published books. The most recent one, Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues, (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood) explains the science behind vaccines, how they work, and why they are controversial. Writing this book gave me a chance to share my fascination with human biology in non-technical language that high school students and adult can understand. A second book, The Anti-Vaccination Movement, is scheduled for 2018.
Most of my books are nonfiction books for young people. The book I most enjoyed researching was African American Scientists and Inventors (Mason Crest). Once a child told me that she “thought you had to be dead to be an author.” I suspected that some children thought the same things about inventors, so I decided to interview some living scientists and inventors for this book and wrote about a few.
A second favorite book in terms of interesting research was Global Trade in the Ancient World (Mason Crest). I now know where all the “stan” countries are —Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan—because ancient trade routes ran through these countries.
In my non-writing time, I volunteer for Guide Dogs for the Blind, cook, garden, and read. I recently traveled to Costa Rica and Panama and am planning a trip to Hong Kong to visit family. My favorite country visited so far is Australia, and some day I hope to spend an extended period there.
Want to learn more about me? Read my interview with David Alan Binder at https://sites.google.com/site/dalanbinder/blog/tishdavidsoninterviewwithdavidalanbinder
Sumiko Saulson is a speculative fiction author whose focus is on horror and science-fiction, novelist, poet and writer of short stories and editorials, who writes the column "Writing While Black" for the San Francisco BayView (a National Black Paper) and also writes for Search Magazine. They are a native Californian, who spent their early childhood in Los Angeles, and lived in Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii in their teen years. They have spent most of their adult life living in the San Francisco Bay Area. An early interest in writing and advanced reading skills eventually led to becoming a staff journalist on their high school paper, the Daily Bugle (McKinley High, Honolulu, HI) one of the nation's only four such daily High School papers at the time. By the time they moved to San Francisco at age 19, they had two self-published books of poetry and was a frequently published poet in local community newspapers and read poetry around town. They were profiled in a San Francisco Chronicle article about up-and-coming poets in the beatnik tradition. Over the years they have written numerous articles for local and community papers, non-profit and corporate newsletters, poetry and lyrics and novels.
Winner of the HWA Scholarship from Hell (2016) BCC Voice "Reframing the Other" contest (2017), Mixy Award (2017), Afrosurrealist Writer Award (2018), HWA Diversity Grant (2020), Ladies of Horror Fiction Grant (2021). Sumiko has an AA in English from Berkeley City College. is the host of the SOMA Leather and LGBT Cultural District's "Erotic Storytelling Hour," and teaches courses at the Speculative Fiction Academy.
C. S. Donnell’s stories and poems (under the name of Carolyn Donnell) have won many awards with a first in fiction at the 2015 San Francisco Writers Conference, 2014 Exhibitor of the Year - Literary Arts Division of the San Mateo County Fair, Frontiers in Writing-Panhandle Pro Writers, Southwest Writers, and CWC South Bay Writers. Other passions in the past included painting and playing viola. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. See more at carolyndonnell.wordpress.com and fineartamerica.com/profiles/carolyn-donnell
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