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Bart Schneider is the author of the novels Blue Bossa, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Secret Love, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Beautiful Inez; and The Man in the Blizzard. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area
Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award.
Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012)
Bart Schneider’s new book from Kelly’s Cove Press, The Daily Feast, is a joyous and savory collaboration between old friends, Sonoma painter Chester Arnold and Berkeley poet Bart Schneider. All the work focuses on food and drink, from oysters on the half shell to dirty martinis, with an afterword by legendary Napa chef and restaurateur Cindy Pawlcyn
Dan Coshnear lives in Guerneville, California with his wife and two children, works at a group home for the homeless and mentally ill, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley Extension and in other North Bay facilities. He is author of Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) and Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly’s Cove Press 2012) and a novella, Homesick, Redux (Flock 2015) His newest story collection is Separation Anxiety (Unsolicited Press, 2021).
Bart Schneider was born and raised in San Francisco. An indifferent student, often truant, he began writing poetry in high school and came alive. He switched to playwriting in his twenties and had a few plays produced in the Bay Area before moving with his wife, poet Patricia Kirkpatrick, to the Twin Cities to work at the Playwrights' Center. During twenty-five winters in Minnesota he founded and edited the book and culture magazine HUNGRY MIND REVIEW, wrote his first novels, and raised his children, Simone and Anton.
Schneider has published five novels, including BLUE BOSSA, a finalist for a LOS ANGELES TIMES Book Prize, and SECRET LOVE, A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year. His two poetry books are WATER FOR A STRANGER and MORNING OPERA.
In 2009, after returning to the Bay Area, Schneider met Catherine Durand. She opened her French kitchen and so much more to him. In 2011, they founded Kelly's Cove Press, which publishes literature and art by California writers and artists, out of their Berkeley home. To date the press has published twenty books.
Daniel Coshnear, born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1961, lives with wife and two children in Guerneville, California. He works part time at a group home in Santa Rosa serving homeless men and women with mental illnesses, and teaches in a variety of settings including the UC Berkeley Extension writing program. He is author of two story collections, Jobs & Other Preoccupations (Helicon Nine 2001) winner of the Willa Cather Fiction Award, and the recent Occupy & Other Love Stories (Kelly's Cove Press 2012).