On Friday evening, July 9,
the Avid Reader Bookstore will host a reception for the new issue of
the Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, starting at 7:30. 
This issue features the beautiful artwork of local artist Susan
Reycroft, as well as the winners of the Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest. 
The evening’s program will include appetizers and wine, with
short readings and a chance to meet the following contributors.

Sharon Campbell studied the Great
Books at St. John's College and is a doctoral candidate in Social
Thought at the University of Chicago. While she has done lots of
academic writing, she repressed her urge to write creatively until she
met her Muse in the spring of 2009. Her poem, “Little Boy Blue,” won first prize in
the 2010 Jack Kerouac Poetry Contest sponsored by Blue Moon Literary
& Art Review and John Natsoulas Gallery. She makes frequent
appearances at the Bistro 33 Poetry Night Open Mic, and writes about
motherhood, love, loss, and the high desert.

Scott Evans, Editor of the Blue
Moon Literary & Art Review, teaches at the University of the
Pacific, including a fiction writing workshop and a course that
introduces students to criminology from various perspectives. His murder
mystery Tragic Flaws is now available and he is finishing a
second novel titled First Folio, a Da Vinci Code-style
thriller that deals with the Shakespeare authorship question.

Beau Hamel (aka Brad
Henderson) teaches writing full-time at University of California,
Davis.  His poetry has appeared in Squaw Valley Review,
thePedestalMagazine.com, Tule Review, California Quarterly,
Poetry/LA, cowboypoetry.com,
Poetry Now, and others.  He is the author of the dual poetry
chapbook, Split Stock:  Selected Poems (John Natsoulas
Press, 2006) and the Phi Kappa Phi Award winning novel, Drums (John
Daniel/Fithian 1997).  Hamel/Henderson has worked as a professional
drummer, corporate engineer, truck dock laborer, and cowboy.

Dr. Andy Jones teaches writing and literature classes at the University of
California, Davis. In addition to his poetry-centric work on KDVS and as
host of Poetry Night at Bistro 33, Andy regularly volunteers his time
for educational and literary causes. For the past decade he has chaired
the Essay Evaluation part of the Yolo County Academic Decathlon. He
serves the California Arts Commission as a judge for the Sacramento
"Poetry Out Loud" competitions, he is the Chair of the Community Action
Committee of Davis, he co-authored the position of Poet Laureate of the
City of Davis, he has hosted fundraisers for Haiti disaster relief and
Tree Davis (through Davis Sunrise Rotary), and for the past six years he
has volunteered as poetry faculty for the San Francisco Writers
Conference.

Ron Lane is a horticulturist and supervisor of research and teaching
facilities at UC Davis.  Formerly he managed the largest
greenhouse vegetable production company in California and was
vice-president of the American Greenhouse Vegetable Growers’
Association.  He has taught classes through University
Extension, lectured in many classes at UCD, coached youth sports,
including two championship high school soccer teams, is a lifetime
member of the Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture. He built
his own home and writes poetry and prose in his spare time.  The
author of Avina’s Song, over fifty of his poems and short
stories have appeared in journals such as Diverse Voices Quarterly,
Rose & Thorn, Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, The
Yolo Crow, The Rattlesnake Review, and Medusa’s Kitchen. 
And the science fiction novel he’s finishing will have readers looking
at crows in a whole new light.

Stacia
Levy lives in Sacramento, California, with her husband and daughter. She
teaches writing and English as a second language at University of the
Pacific. Her short story "Father" recently won an honorable mention in
the Writer's Digest Annual Popular Fiction Awards. She is currently
working on a mystery novel about hate on a college campus.

Adam Russ has worked as a
Peace Corps volunteer, an economist, a high school math teacher, and
currently as a full-time dad and part-time writer.  His short stories
have won awards from Writer’s Digest, The Baltimore Review,
and New Millennium Writings.  Adam is in the final throes of
completing his first novel.  He lives in California with his wife and
son.