RICHARD B. SIMON

Richard B. Simon is Adjunct Professor of Literature and Language at Dominican University of California. Since 2002, he has taught Creative Writing at the graduate and undergraduate levels; composition at all levels, from basic skills to transfer/university to advanced; literature and literary criticism; and Big History, at Dominican, at City College of San Francisco, and at Chabot College. He has his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) from San Francisco State University.

His writing on music, culture, arts, the environment, and current affairs has appeared in Rolling Stone, at MTV and VH1.com, at SonicNet and Addicted to Noise, in Juxtapoz, on San Francisco's NPR affiliate KQED-FM, and elsewhere. He is a contributing editor at Relix magazine.

He is the lead editor and author of Teaching Big History (University of California Press, 2015).

COBY HOFFMAN

Coby Hoffman's short stories have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, New Delta Review, Apalachee Review, The MacGuffin, and elsewhere. Her first book of short stories Desert Stories was published by Fourteen Hills Press, and her second collection Everyone Dies in This One, Too has been published in national literary journals.

She is a certificated P-12 English / Language Arts and ESL teacher. She has taught at the primary and middle school levels, in both private and public schools.

Since 2009, she has taught basic skills and university level English composition in the California Community Colleges. Every year, she scores the writing exams for the Cal State University system, determining which students are prepared for college-level writing. She has her M.A. in English, with an emphasis in Creative Writing, from San Francisco State University.