Award-winning Chico Poet, essayist, and short story writer George Keithley's epic poem The Donner Party, was made into an opera. He now has written a new book, a novel about a volcano expert headquartered near Lassen Peak, which is really about family.
College English teacher Lisa Berman writes about love and loss in her collections of poems, SaltWild. Poems inspired by her own life.
