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San Francisco, California

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I am a native San Franciscan and was raised in a neighborhood teeming with big backyards and adventurous children. My appreciation of nature was cultivated during solo summer walks in the pine forests of Lake Tahoe. When I was six, I self-published my first poetry book, a parchment scroll tied with red ribbon. I attended University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State University in the late 1970s and early 80s, taking what I intended to be a short sabbatical to write a novel before senior year. Twenty six years later (one marriage, two children, and a puppy with the energy of three), I returned to SFSU on an Osher Re-entry Scholarship. I graduated in May 2008 with a B.A. in En