Rosa Martha Villarreal, Publisher & Contributing Editor

Rosa Martha Villarreal is a Texas native and graduate of San Jose State University with Bachelors of Arts in Botany and English, and a Master of Arts in English.

She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Doctor Magdalena (TQS Publications) and Chronicles of Air and Dreams: A Novel of Mexico (Archer Books), and the winner of San Jose State University 's Phelan Literary Award. She is a member of PEN USA . Her short story “The Mendel of Hidalgo” was republished in “The Best of Sabine Magazine .”

Her third novel The Stillness of Love and Exile won an Independent Publishers Book Award Silver Medal for Best Fiction in the Pacific-West Regionals and, most recently, the 2008 Josephine Miles National Literary Award in Fiction.

Samples of her works can be found at:

Tertulia Magazine
The New York Times
Mexidata
California Progress Report

Sabine Magazine archives: Sabine Magazine

Rosa Martha Villarreal may be reached at: rvillarreal@tertuliamagazine.com

Bernardo Salinas, Managing Editor & Contributing Writer

Bernardo Salinas is a California native who currently resides in Austin, Texas. He has studied at San Francisco State University and San Jose State University. He has worked at several high-tech companies in Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas and currently works for a large computer maker in Round Rock, Texas.

He has won the West Valley College Olympiad of the Arts for his short fiction (Saratoga, CA).

Bernardo Salinas may be reached at: bsalinas@tertuliamagazine.com

An H. Nguyen, Senior Editor & Contributing Writer

An H. Nguyen received her B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and her J.D. from Santa Clara University .

She is a litigating attorney at the Law Firm of Jeffers, Mangels, Butler & Marmon, LLP.

She has been previously published in the law journal IADC Newsletter, and her essays have appeared in TQS Newsletter and BN Magazine.

Samples of her work are available at: www.tertulimagazine.com

Maryann Postiglione, Junior Editor & Contributing Writer

Maryann Postiglione has completed her B.A. in English from Sacramento State University in 2009. He has chosen law as her future career.

Maryann Postiglione may be reached at: mpostiglione@tertuliamagazine.com

Yon Walls, Editor & Contributing Writer

Yon Walls was born in 1958 in Owensboro, Kentucky. With the vast body of her work unpublished, she has appeared in The Santa Clara Review, The Walrus Literary Review, Syllogism, the on-line zine Nierdagasse and in 2002 adapted two Children’s Stories for an Anthology: Two Ways To Count To Ten and The Magic Bones. Her latest work, a book of poems; Island of Swallows is a culmination of her work and residence in Japan. She has also written sudden fiction blooming from her experience of the archipelago. She earned an MFA from Mills College in 2000 and has taught Composition and Literature for nearly a decade. She currently teaches at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA.

Yon Walls may be reached at: ywalls@tertuliamagazine.com

María Espinosa

María Espinosa grew up on Long Island, but for most of her life she has lived in California. She attended Harvard and Columbia, and she obtained an M.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. For many years she has taught English as a Second Language for San Francisco City College. Her publications include three novels, a critically acclaimed translation of George Sand’s novel, Lélia, and two chapbooks of poetry.

While her novels explore different themes, a common thread runs throughout in terms of vision, expressed through an intense, spare sensibility. Dark Plums explores the Manhattan world of the Fifties through the eyes of a girl desperate for love who prostitutes herself in order to support her artist lover. Her second novel, Longing, which received an American Book Award, describes the marriage of Rosa, a Jewish American, to Antonio, a Chilean writer. Incognito: Journey of a Secret Jew, is a historical novel dealing with the effects of the Inquisition on a Jew who is torn between two worlds. Her most recent novel, Dying Unfinished is about the tangled relationship between a mother and daughter. It will be published by Wings Press in 2009.

She writes, "Invisible energies form the medium in which we live. These energies, which people cast off, as plants cast off oxygen, have always seemed frightening potent to me. We breathe in these energies—people's unexpressed desires and fears, their states of being. I try to deal with this substratum that forms the roots of our thoughts, our words, our actions."

Brett Alan Sanders

Aside from being a contributing writer and blogger at Tertulia Magazine, Brett Alan Sanders is the new managing editor at New Works Review. He teaches Spanish, a general introduction to foreign languages, and sometimes English at Perry Central Junior-Senior High School, where since the 2004-05 school year he has also sponsored an extracurricular literary club and helped launch the student literary journal The Jolie Rouge. He has studied Spanish and English at Indiana University and is completing a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana. He has published a historical novella, A Bride Called Freedom (Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2003) and a book of poetry in translation, María Rosa Lojo's Awaiting the Green Morning (Host Publications, 2008). He has just completed work on his Argentine travel memoir, Journeys and Digressions, and a collection of short fiction, No One Assured In God.

Francisco Aragón

A native of San Francisco and long-time resident of Spain, Francisco Aragón is the author of Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press, 2005), a bilingual collection of poems. He is the editor of The Wind Shifts: The New Latino Poetry, which is forthcoming in 2007 from the University of Arizona Press. His own most recent anthology publications include Evensong: American Poets on Spirituality (Bottom Dog Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Deep Travel: Comtemporary Poets Abroad (Ninebark Press, 2007).

In addition, his work has appeared in Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies (W.W. Norton & Company, 2001), Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California (Heyday Books, 2002), American Diaspora: Poetry of Displacement (University of Iowa Press, 2001), How to Be This Man (Swan Scythe Press, 2003), Red, White, & Blues: Poetic Vistas on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press, 2004), and Bend, Don't Shatter (Soft Skull Press, 2004). Among his three limited edition chapbooks is Tertulia (BOOKlyn, 2002). His poems and translations have appeared in various places, including Poetry Daily, Chain, Crab Orchard Review, Chelsea, Heliotrope, Puerto del Sol, Luna, The Journal, ZYZZYVA, and the online literary journals, Jacket and Electronic Poetry Review. He is the Director of Letras Latinas, the literary program at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Visit his website at: www.franciscoaragon.net

Juan Carlos Reyes

Originally from New York, Juan Carlos Reyes has published a number of short stories in both the New Works Review and Tertulia Magazine, and his currently finishing his first novel. An alum of PEN USA's Emerging Voices Rosenthal Fellowship in Los Angeles, he also holds a math degree from New York University. He has acquired Tertulia Press and serves as its Senior Editor and Publisher.

Katharine Whitcomb

Katharine Whitcomb was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, and earned her B.A. from Macalester College in English. In 1995 she received an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Norwich University. She is the author of a collection of poems, Saints of South Dakota & Other Poems, which was chosen by Lucia Perillo as the winner of the 2000 Bluestem Award and published by Bluestem Press. Her poetry awards include a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, a Loft-McKnight Award, a Writing Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a Halls Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She received an AWP Fellowship in Poetry to the Prague Summer Seminars at Charles University in the Czech Republic. She has had work published in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review and The Missouri Review as well as several anthologies, including Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers, Writers on Tattoos. She currently directs the writing program at Central Washington University and lives in Ellensburg, WA.

William Studebaker (1947 - 2008)

William Studebaker passed away in 2008, aged 61. He was a founding member of Tertulia Magazine and a celebrated poet, essayist, columnist, and outdoor photographer. His publications included Travelers in an Antique Land (Caxton Press, poetry), Passions We Desire (Limberlost Press, poetry), Short of a Good Promise (WSU Press, prose), and The Cleaving among other works. Considered one of Idaho's foremost poets, William will be missed as a colleague and a friend by Tertulia Magazine staff.

Nancy Rullo

Nancy Rullo is an instructor of creative writing at Ulster County Community College. She teaches poetry and essay writing to adults and teenagers in Woodstock, NY. Recent poems have been published in Aurorean, Reflect, Blueline, HalfMoon Review, and Dream International Quarterly.

Bryce Milligan

Born in Dallas, Texas, Bryce Milligan has lived in San Antonio since 1977. He has been a newspaper columnist, a freelance journalist, a scholar, a novelist, a poet, a playwright, and an essayist.

Will Nixon

Will Nixon’s poetry chapbooks are When I had It Made (Pudding House Publications) and The Fish are Laughing (Pavement Saw Press). His web site of personal essays about living in a Catskills log cabin after years in Manhattan is: www.mycabinfever.com.

Juan Delgado

Juan Delgado is the author of two previous books of poetry, El Campo and Green Web. He is currently Professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.