Daniel Alarcón { website link }
Daniel Alarcón’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Virginia Quarterly Review, Salon, Eyeshot and elsewhere. He is Associate Editor of Etiqueta Negra, an award-winning monthly magazine based in his native Lima, Peru. His story collection, War by Candlelight, was a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award, and the British journal Granta recently named him one of the Best Young American Novelists. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship (2001), a Whiting Award (2004), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2007). He lives in Oakland, California, and his first novel Lost City Radio was published in February 2007.

Tamah Ettiene Augen
Tamah E. Augen is a writer from Vermont attending Mills College as a "transfer resumer" majoring in English.

Koa Beck
Koa is a Piscean sophomore with a predilection for purple. She was born in Lihue on the island of Kauai, and moved to Los Angeles with her family at the age of three.

Robyn Brooks
Robyn Brooks, a candidate for the M.F.A. degree in English and Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry at Mills College, is a poet and playwright. A former Student-Teacher-Poet for June Jordan's Poetry for the People Collective, and recipient of an Emily Chamberlain Cook Prize in Poetry, her poetry has been published in several anthologies and journals. Recently, Brooks wrote, directed, and acted in her one-act play, I Hippolyta, which was staged in San Francisco as part of a Play Rites Festival. Most recently, Brooks was published in What I Want From You: Voices of East Bay Lesbian Poets, An Anthology.

Zoë Byrne
Zoë Byrne has been writing all her life, starting with diary entries and imaginary game shows. She is a freshwoman at Mills College who will most likely major in Creative Writing. in her own words, she is a feline-loving bibliophile.

Sandy Bury
Sandy Bury is an adult adoptee who was enrolled at Mills as a P.L.E.A major when her birth family found her three years ago. She has since switched her major to Creative Writing which allows her to write about adoption and reunion.

Caroline Cadwell
Caroline is a pirate who likes to make complicated culinary creations.

Amelia Chandler-Lewy
Amelia Chandler-Lewy is a recent graduate of Mills College and a former editor of The Walrus. She won the Mary Merritt Henry Prize for Poetry in 2006. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, Milvia Street, and on trustfundreporting.com where she gets to mess with her little brother's mind.

Dan Chaon
Dan Chaon's most recent book is the novel You Remind Me of Me (Ballantine, 2004) which was listed as one of the best books of 2004 by The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. His book of short stories, Among the Missing, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Chaon's stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and have been included in Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003, the O'Henry Prize Stories, 2001, The Pushcart Prize 2000, 2002, and 2003, The Best Fantasy and Horror, 2004, and The Best American Non-Required Reading, 2005. His work has been translated into 10 languages. He is, most recently, the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Alice Chu
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Charity Coleman
With and without buttons.

June Coryell
June Coryell is currently studying creative writing and book arts at Mills College. This is her second appearance in The Walrus.

Daniel Cutler
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Matthew Demakos
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Alan Finneran
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Kate Finneran (Co-Editor)
Kate Finneran has studied fine art at CCA and writing at Mills College. Her poetry has appeared in the 2006 issue of The Walrus among other places. She was one of the younger members of the avant-garde theater company Soon 3.

Katrina Elisabeth Gaines
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Alicia Gallo
Alicia Gallo is a Mills student who likes to sketch, craft, collage and doodle.

Julie Kim Garcia
Julie Kim Garcia was born in Fresno, CA. She began writing poetry in 2004 and has had her poems published in Symmetry, The Ram's Tale, and In the Grove. She participated in the CSU Summer Arts program "Poetry in Public Spaces" and organized "Speak the Blues" at the Fresno Art Museum.

Liz Green
Liz Green is an award-winning playwright and poetry slam champion currently attending the Mills College M.F.A program in creative writing. She has taught drama and poetry to children ages 3-18.

Liz Hoover
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Jenny Jackson-Paton
Jenny Jackson-Paton is an artist, singer, and elementary school teacher who attended Mills as a graduate student.

Lucy Kee
Lucy Kee is a senior at Mills studying creative writing. She placed second in the Mary Merritt Henry Prize for Poetry in 2005. Her writing and photography can also be found in the 2006 issue of the The Walrus. Apart from her life at Mills, Lucy has done voice-over work for video games.

Ruth Kee
Ruth Kee is a 22-year-old college student from Oakland, now living in Austin, Texas. She has studied art for most of her life.

Christina Kessler
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Green LaFleur
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Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux is a Mills alum and a former editor of The Walrus Her books include Awake, What We Carry, Smoke (BOA Editions) and Facts About the Moon (W.W. Norton, 2005) as well as The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, her poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Best of the American Poetry Review, The Harvard Review, The New England Review, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review, Shenanodoah, Ploughshares, ZYZZYVA, The Washington Post, DoubleTake, Five Points, Barrow Street, and others. She is the two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, an Editor's Choice III award, a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry published in the United States the previous year. Her book Facts About the Moon won her the honor of the 2007 Oregon Book Award. Laux has been a fellow at BreadLoaf and contributing editor of Poetry Flash.

Abby Lebbert
Abby Lebbert has been writing for as long as she can remember because it gives her an escape from reality.

Adina Lepp
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Erica Lewis
Erica Lewis has been a Bay Area fine arts publicist for four years and is currently an M.F.A candidate for poetry at Mills, studying under Stephen Ratcliffe.

M. Mara-Ann
M.Mara-Ann is a writer, vocalist, and genre crosser whose love of breeding elegant forms of composition with exacting strains of delicious hybridity include the book lighthouse (Atelos), the CD Luminous with ambientPORTAL (atmoworks.com), and her newly completed thesis Containment Scenario -- a written work for the page and for performance.

Joseph Millar
Joseph Millar is the author of Fortune, from Eastern Washington University Press. His first collection, Overtime (2001) was finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Millar grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Johns Hopkins University and spent 25 years in the San Francisco Bay area, working at a variety of jobs, from telephone repairman to commercial fisherman. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry, the Moncalvo Center for the Arts and from Oregon Literary Arts. He teaches at Oregon State University and Pacific University’s Low Residency Program. These poems are from his new collection, Fortune.

Erin Alexandra Mowlds
Erin Alexandra Mowlds is currently a junior at Mills College and was co-editor of The Walrus in 2006. She is from Oregon. She very much enjoyed attending the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University this past summer.

Youssef Nabil { website link }
Egyptian born Youssef Nabil's signature hand-colored photographs have garnered international acclaim. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such venues as Les Rencontres Internationales de La Photographie in Arles, the British Museum, London, the Fries Museum, Leewaarden, Michael Stevenson Contemporary Gallery, Cape Town, the Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, FotoFest Houston, Texas, Centre De Cultura Contemporanea De Barcelona, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris, the Third Line gallery, Dubai, Centro Andaluz De Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla and the Aperture Foundation, New York City. Nabil now lives and works in New York.

Lacy Paap
Lacy is a Mills freshwoman whose interests include outerspace, cats, books, and women's issues. She plans to major in Philosophy.

Kindrid Parker
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Belinda Perez (Editorial Board)
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Stephen Ratcliffe
Mills College English professor Stephen Ratcliffe has recently published his latest book of poetry, Real (Avenue B, 2007), 474 pages written in 474 consecutive days. Ratcliffe has taught at the College for 23 years and has published his poetry in books and journals widely. Among Ratcliffe’s many books of poetry are Portraits and Repetition (Post-Apollo Press, 2002), SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002), Idea’s Mirror (Potes and Poets Press, 1999), Sculpture (Littoral Books, 1996), and Present Tense (The Figures, 1995). Listening to Reading, a collection of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press in 2000. Ratcliffe has been the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and Fund for Poetry. Ratcliffe earned his BA, MA, and PhD degrees at the University of California at Berkeley.

Anna-Lisa Robbins
Three is quite a significant number in many cases, such as aesthetics, science, and religion. In my case it happens to be the number 8.14. I was born on August 14th, at 8:14am, weighing 8lbs 14oz. As a child of extreme neuroses, it is simple to see why I apply these tendencies onto the visual realm.

Lauren Searle-LeBel
Lauren Searle-LeBel is a creative writing major who has been studying and writing poetry for over six years. After graduating in 2008, she plans to join the Peace Corps and then earn her M.F.A -- experiences that she hopes will influence her work in the most diverse ways possible.

Aarthi Sekar
Aarthi Sekar is a freshwoman at Mills College. She hopes to pursue a science major but still explore her love of literature.

C. J. Singh
C. J. Singh is a first-year graduate student in the Mills M.F.A program in fiction writing.

Amy Sol { website link }
Amy Sol spent her childhood years in Korea, and then moved to Las Vegas, NV where she currently lives and works. Though the style of her work is greatly influenced by a combination of manga, folk-art, vintage illustration and modern design, she remains a self taught artist. She has dedicated many years of her life mixing pigments and mediums to achieve a unique color palette of subtly muted tones. The artist works intuitively from the beginning to end of each piece, with the intent that each painting’s theme or message can be interpreted subjectively. Within these delicate works, you may often find whimsical landscapes populated with exotic plants, animals and females… Amongst the expressions of each character are notions of peaceful reflection and a sense of companionship. More information can be found at her website

James Tipton
James Tipton holds a Ph.D. in English literature and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his family. His novel Annette Vallon will be published this fall by HarperCollins.

Elisa Vignozzi
Elisa is a 25-year-old resident of Florence, Italy who enjoys photomanipulation as a hobby. More of her artwork can be found at cosmopavone.deviantart.com.

Carl von Kessler
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Sarah Walsh
Sarah is a sophomore at NYU, studying anthropology and linguistics. While she has been writing fiction most of her life, her forays into poetry have been few. This is her first published work, but she has hopes for the half-finished novel floundering on her hard drive. She enjoys knitting, Russian tea parties and stories with happy endings.

Sara Wintz
New work by Sara Wintz can be found in ecopoetics, cricketonlinereview,shampoopoetry,canwehaveourballback, and previous issues of The Walrus, which she co-edited in 2005. She is director of the pretty panicks press, a small press printing rock and roll compositions, articles, and artwork materials. She will graduate from Mills College this spring.