Monika Rose, from the Mountain Ranch area of Calaveras County, edits Manzanita: Poetry and Prose of the Mother Lode and Sierra, and she is founding editor of Manzanita Writers Press, an affiliate of the Calaveras County Arts Council based in San Andreas. Manzanita Writers Press is a nonprofit literary press  www.manzapress.com

Her new book, a full 212-pagecollection of 85 poems, River by the Glass, by GlenHill Publications, is available for purchase and is available at Amazon  as well as through  Small Press Distribution at spdbooks.com. In addition, the book will be available for download on the Nook and Kindle as an e-book some time in 2012.

Monika has been published in Tule Review, Rattlesnake Review, Poetry Now, Mindprint Review, Squaw Valley Review, The Journal, Refrigerate After Opening, Mokehellion Review, online at Medussa’s Kitchen, online at Poets Corner Press, Rattlesnake Review’s Interview Series by B.L. Kennedy, and other publications. Her work appears in Shadows of Light, an anthology of poetry and photography of the Sierra, and in a new Yosemite poetry anthology by Scrub Jay Press, Yosemite Poets.  She is working on a DVD production of her poetry set to her own music, photography and film clips, projected for Fall 2011 release. She is currently writing a humorous thriller, a novel about surveillance and voyeurism, and a book based on her parents’ WWII war stories in Europe. Her bread-and-butter vocation is English teacher full time and freelance manuscript editor for fellow writers.

Contact her via email:   mrosemanza@jps.net