ALISHA NIELSEN
ANIKA DOVE
ASHYE YASA
CASSIE THOMAS
CHRIS KENNEDY
CLEANA SENEGAL
JAVIER REBOLLAR-LOZA
JENNIFER GARFIELD
MICHELLE DAVILA
RACHEL KAHAN
RICARDO GAMA
RICHARD MELGAR
WILLIE COX
My name is Alex McCoy and that's my picture =). It seems as if I?ve been writing all my life. But I haven?t written many pieces successfully. Writing runs strong in my family. My grandmother has published a few books, my mom wrote a stage play that was almost featured at the Sundance film festival, as a short film, and my two older sisters and myself write whenever we get the chance. I took ?reading and writing short stories,? because I?ve always appreciated the skill that it takes to condense a story from 200-300 pages, to 10-20 pages. I plan to continue to write in my spare time and don?t be surprised if you read a book or see a film written by me.
lex Pujol lives in Berkeley with his mom, dad, and two dogs. He's seventeen years old, and is a senior at Berkeley High. Alex enjoys spending time with friends, watching movies, and sleeping. He rows for the Berkeley High Crew team. He hopes to attend a four-year university, and possibly study history. Afterwards Alex hopes to have a powerful job so he can sit back and stack his scrilla.
Allie lives in Berkeley, CA with her two loving parents, and her two siblings who recently moved back home. After Allies many hours of school, she enjoys coming home to a delicious family dinner then relaxing and falling asleep to great episodes of the OC. Allie also enjoys reading novels by Mitch Albom. When Allie is not stressing out over her homework and college applications she is working with third and fourth graders learning Hebrew. Allie is trying to keep her options open for next year. She plans to attend University of California Santa Barbara or University of California Davis. Allie is not getting her hopes up in case of rejection.
Amanda Parker has always lived, and attended public schools, in Berkeley. She has always loved writing, especially creative writing, and finds inspiration in many American authors, including Mona Simpson and J.D. Salinger. She also is greatly inspired by the poetry of Bob Dylan, and has found a new interest in poetry and even songwriting because of him.
Anna Kalkanis-Ellis was born and raised in Berkeley,
CA. Growing up she was never very interested in
writing, untill she took a Reading and Writing Short
Stories class at Berkeley High. She learned her
senior year that writing isn't so bad when you can
chose your own topic.
My name is Brittany White I am from Vallejo I had attended Vallejo high before I had came to Berkeley. I am a senior this year, and I plan to go to Arizona next year to attend school. I live with my mother and my younger sister. I come from a big family of fourteen children from my father's side. I was inspired to write this memoir about my father because he was a big part of my life and still is.
I reside in Oakland, California
where i get my inspiration, is from everything. My family, friends anything
i think of.
Danielle was born in T?ainan, Taiwan, but raised in the Bay Area for 16 of her 17 years. She enjoys both reading and writing but on her own time and subject. She also enjoys playing badminton, as she has for the past 2 years, and practicing martial arts, with her 5 years of experience. She relies on her emotions for inspiration. Danielle currently lives at home with her parents, and in the next year plans on attending college.
Elena Alderman was born via C-section in Alta Bates Hospital in 1989, and
grew up a ravenous youngster in the beautiful wild jungle of the Oakland
Hills. She moved to Berkeley when she was 9 and immediately realized that
this was the place to be. Elena can frequently be found roaming the streets
of NSB wielding a metal bat, angrily warding off all that dare to threaten
her peaceful hillside community or her adoring family waiting patiently back
home on Spruce Street.
Elliot Aglioni lives with his mother, father, and his dog, Bo, in
Berkeley, California. He enjoys commas, and dashes above all other
punctuation marks. While he dislikes exclamation points, Elliot will
sometimes use them out of necessity. When not spending time with his
favorite punctuation marks, Elliot likes to punctuate conversations
with remarks that he--and often only he--finds amusing. Elliot hopes
to continue playing with words in the future.
Ellis Clark was born in San Francisco, California. He moved to Berkeley in the first grade and has been attending Berkeley Public Schools since the 7th grade. He hopes to attend one of the UC's or possibly Columbia College in Chicago. He hopes to continue writing in college and in addition to this he dreams to continue playing baseball. His writing influences are J.D Salinger, James Ellroy and John Steinbeck.
My name is Elon Ullman, and I?m a senior at Berkeley High School. My writing influences and motivations include Albert Hoffman, Ken Kesey, F. Scott Fitzgerald and of course my own experiences and adventures. I enjoy making nachos, camping in illegal places, and meeting open minded people.
My name is Dehong Liu but I prefer people call me Eric. I am a senior in BHS. I got a lot hobbies, I love to build display models, basketball, bikes and collect stuffs. I am a really nice person, I love to help people also, I want others to help me too. I want to meet as many people as I can, because I am a person that is afraid of lonely.
Evan Roberts lives with his family in west Berkley. He enjoys hanging
out with friends, art, and music.
Fennis Brown lives in Berkeley with her two sisters, parents and two dogs. She currently studies at Berkeley High School, where her favorite classes are Economics, Reading and Writing the Short Story and Art History. Because of her creative flair she loves spending time doing art, both visual and performing, as well as creative writing. Currently she is co-directing En Pointe, an all youth organized dance company, where she does everything from choreography to costume design, organization to stage management and fundraising to booking theatres. Last year she highly enjoyed her AP Language and Composition class where she felt as if her “…writing really developed and grew in a short amount of time.” This year she looks forward to creative writing and reading short stories, two of her favorite things to do!
Francis Langbein lives in Berkeley, California and is planning to attend a liberal college next year. Besides writing, he delves in baseball, chess, and jobs relating to political activism. Francis has also been trained in the art of Benni Hana cooking and knife throwing, and he plans to be a chef some day. Although his memoir ends on rather bad terms with his best friend, the extended version would include a lay period of about eight months and eventually forgiveness. They have returned to being very good friends and plan to go on a road trip together next summer.
Gabriel Schnake-Mahl lives in Berkeley with his parents and twin sister. He
is a passionate sports fan and plays baseball for Berkeley High School. Next
year, he plans to attend a UC for college. Though he doesn't consider
creative writing to be one of his strengths, he does feel as though his
skills are growing.
My name is Gabrielle White and I have lived in Berkeley CA my entire life, in fact I?ve never even moved houses. I live with my mom and dad, and I?m an only child. I?m looking forward to attending college next year and hope wherever I get in I like. All the schools I?m applying to are either on the east coast or west coast so I?ll either be very close to home, or very far away. I?m not sure what my writing inspiration is, I guess I?m motivated to write so I can be a good writer. I think that writing is a very important skill to have; it allows you to express your thoughts, to be a good writer is an advantage in our society. In my free time, I play soccer and work as a children?s party hostess at the YMCA in down town Berkeley.
Grant Long is a cool kid. Take it from me. Straight
from the gourmet ghetto of North Side Berkeley, he
derives his inspiration from his life and imagination.
Yellow Jacket blood runs in his veins, he plays 3rd
base for the varsity baseball team at BHS. After high school,
he plans to stay hyphy in college.
Hannah Pollack was born and raised in Berkeley,
California. She likes being with friends, exploring
San Francisco, and watching Grey's Anatomy. Her
favorite books are Middlesex and The Kite Runner. Next
year she plans to go to a four year university.
Hailing from the small, yet quiety and cozy, tropical paradise of El Cerrito, Henry Ivry is a man of many faces. Whether he is on stage, topless, covered in and saliva rolling around with a microphone as his angelic, yet masculine and commanding, voice spills out the latest lyrics for the rock 'n' roll revolution, Steel Toe Disaster, or down at Ohmega Salvage as he hustles toilet tank lids and Victorian door hardware for money for his Friday night dice game, Henry is sure to be doing his part as a good samaritan and looking for an old lady to help across the street. His writing, which has been rumored to have ended poverty in West Poland and stir coup d'etats in the lower regions of South America, is inspired by his love of babes. Henry Ivry: man or legend? You decide.
Jacob Shogren was born and currently lives in Berkeley, California. He
has written many analytical essays, lots and lots of boring analytical
on works of literature. Even so, he has kept an open mind about
writing creatively. Despite having little experience writing
creatively he is excited to move in a new direction with this new
opportunity. He enjoys many genres of writing from science fiction to
non-fiction and tries drawing on all of these for inspiration.
Born and raised in Mexico, in a city called Valle de Bravo, Javier a student
that enjoys writing humorous and creative pieces thinks that if a story is
not funny or if it doesn?t catch the audience?s attention then there is no
point in reading it or writing it. Inspired by the writing of Gabriel Garcia
Marquez and Pablo Neruda Javier realizes his passion for Latin American
Literature.
Jennifer is Jennifer. Sleeping makes up about 75% of her life. She
is a sucker for shiny jewelry and various other objects. Currently,
she lacks other lame facts about herself so it'll end here... for now.
Jessica Cussins was born in England and traveled all around the world before
settling in Berkeley. She is now a senior at Berkeley High School, but is
excited to graduate and be able to experience more of the world. She spends
most of her time with her friends or her family, but also has a job at a
clothes boutique and loves salsa dancing.
Jessica Nicely learned how to write in elementary school, starting off by
tracing letters on big pieces of lined paper, and finishing 12th grade with
a love of both reading and writing. Some of her favorite authors include
Douglas Adams, Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, George Orwell, and Stephen
King. However, she does not spend all her time reading and writing. She also
enjoys singing, running, baking, and following politics. She lives in
Berkeley with her family, but hopefully next year she'll be far away in
college.
Joey Raven lives in Berkeley, California. He is widely
known for his concession rap and soul group "MC
Butterfat and Lil' Dibs"
(myspace.com/mcbutterfatandlildibs). He enjoys
writting and blatent inappropriate advertising.
Jozef Matlak was born in Madrid but flew across the ocean to live in Berkeley. He currently lives with his parents and brother. In the small amount of free time he has, he enjoys playing the violin, playing a variety of sports, as well as sleeping. His inspirations come from many great literary works of the past.
Katherine lives in a tacky yellow house in the flatlands of Berkeley with
her mother, younger sister, and two eccentric cats. She enjoys reading,
hanging out with her friends, and creating every kind of art imaginable, as
well as participating in a variety of athletic activities such as rugby,
running, speedskating, and human jenga. Her plans for after highschool
include going to an art college and becoming a professionally exhibiting
artist.
Kevin Vognar's imagination was developed by the compound influences of
video games, science fiction, half-dreams and techno music. His
aspirations have transformed from ice cream making to space
exploration to writing, though given the chance he would still love to
go on a spacewalk. He thinks far too much and does far too little,
though if you don't save the world he'll be sure to do it someday.
Laura was born in Berkeley seventeen years ago, and has lived there
ever since. In fact, she will continue to live there until she goes
elsewhere for college next year. Laura spends her time dancing,
working in her school's theater, leading Berkeley High's Best Buddies
chapter, and throwing koosh balls at her friends in the park. She does
flips and gets koosh balls thrown at her in the park as well.
Lianna Louie is a self-declared wacky senoir at
Berkeley High School who loves hanging out with
friends and Top Ramen. She lives with her family who
she identifies as her strongest inpiration. Lianna
believes that because she lives with a very
artisically-talented family, she has been able to
discover many artforms. The earliest art interest
Lianna had was writing poetry. Through out her life,
Lianna has written on and off and has found that she
prefers creative writing. In the near future, Lianna
hopes to attend a small liberal arts college, improve
her ranking in fancing tournaments, and have the great
final year in high school.
Lindsay lives in Berkeley california and has gone to
Berkeley High School for her entire high school
career. She is a girl who loves being creative. Being
in short stories allows her to express her creative
mind in a different way besides drawing or painting.
She is inspired by various people in her life. The
person could be a known author, a classmate, or a
teacher. She loves to progress and develope her
writing syle in hopes to become a better writer. Her
plans for the the future is to go to college and
hopefully major in Architecture.
Lucy Medrich lives in Berkeley and has been writing fiction ever since the first grade. She enjoys working on the school paper, watching bad television, consuming baked goods, and riding shotgun in her friends’ cars. As an adult, she hopes to reside in Paris, make a living as a novelist and editor, and eat bread and cheese every night until the unlikely day that she gets sick of it. Her inspirations include poets such as e.e. cummings and Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as authors such as John Steinbeck, John Irving, Amy Tan, and that lady who wrote the Nancy Drew books (she used to love those). She turns 18 on February 22 and would like a pony, please.
Margaret Smail, quite unfortunately, lives in Berkeley, California. She shares a house with two shifty characters, one of them British, who claim to be her parents and a very large black cat called Pyewackett. She rides horses, wins ribbons, and generally has a good time. She is amazing enough to have been accepted at the University of Wales at Aberystwyth (which is far better than all your American universities put together) for a course in Equine Studies. She plans to live in Britain with various animals and one male homo sapien.
Max Trow-Shaw, a rising talent, works day and night on
his writing. He's a true yellow jacket, having played
on the soccer and baseball teams, and he was an
influential piece of the 2007 rally dance that he and
his year won in their final attempt. He is a huge
Oakland Athletics fan and was heart broken at season's
end. Max draws inspiration from his family of two
sisters, mom, dad, stepmom and a housemate who goes
to Bolt currently, but also from his friends and his
personal experiences that he wouldn't go into detail
on. In my opinion, Max is a gifted writer who is
quick, witty, and easy to read, and his writing can
appeal to all types of readers.
Michelle Mary Davila, born in New Jersey but a self declared native of the bay area, now lives in downtown Berkeley with her scholarly anarchist father. Writing mostly fiction, she also dabbles in memoirs and other self-based stories. She first started writing at the age of twelve when she became bored with and altered such books as the Harry Potter series (J.K Rowling), the Narnia Chronicles (C. S. Lewis), and such cartoons and comics as Outlaw Star, Tenchi Muyo and Gundam Wing. An aspiring zoologist and novelist, Davila is a less than devout Taoist and an even less devout Catholic. However, her work does have various religious influences.
Naomi has lived in Berkeley, CA all her life. During her free time, she loves to write, play the flute, and spent time with her four older siblings. She also loves to travel, which she hopes to be able to do more of when she is older. She plans on going to college and studying music and some form of writing, although she doesnt know which genre yet. Her family members are the most important people in the world to her.
Nico Sophiea lives in Berkeley with his family and currently attends
Berkeley High School. He plays drums in various bands and combos such
as ?The Messiest Colors Society? and ?The Brian Pardo Jazz Combo? at
the Jazz School. He is currently a senior at Berkeley High at plans to
go to college at a University of California next fall.
Olivia Toczynski is a pretty silly girl. Her favorite
thing to do is laugh, and wishes she could do it all
the time. Even looking back on her worst experiences,
she is able to take them lightly and make a joke out
of them. More than keeping herself happy, she wants
to make sure everyone around her is as pleased as they
can be. Of course there have been some bad events in
her life, and that's where writing comes in. It all
started when she got a cute little journal when she
was 9, and has expanded a lot since taking the Reading
and Writing Short Stories class at Berkeley HIgh!
Mr. Peter Angell catches some Z's (four to seven, to be precise) every night at his foothill hideout after a long, grueling day of writing short stories and running several miles (four to seven, to be precise). Mr. Angell enjoys comedy, music, backpacking, living in Berkeley, and writing about thimself in the third person, but his favorite pastime is kicking it with his friends. Mr. Angell is also President of the Key Club (a community service organization) and a member of the Orchestra, and he runs Varsity Track and Cross Country. One day, Mr. Angell hopes to be king of the world and have a pet elephant. In the meantime, he hopes to go to a great college and find some fantastic career in which he can be happy, have lots of spare time, and make lots of money. Mr. Angell has two favorite quotes. The first is "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." The second one is a secret.
Rachel Kahan lives in Oakland, California with her outspoken mom, Candi and her cat, Cleopatra. Rachel enjoys spending time with her friends, working with children and being in nature. Rachel has a deep interest in astrology. She is also very compassionate, and understanding. She is an amazing friend, who listens and gives great advice. Next year Rachel hopes to be happy and stay in contact with her best friends.
My name is Richard. I have a few writing inspirations for different types of writing. Right now Im writing a memoir, which is something I never did before. I don’t think I was really into it until I read some memoirs written by other people in my class. I read some memoirs before but I wasn’t really that inspired until I read some written by some people that I kind of know. I also like to write rhymes whether it’s a rap or a poem or anything I can put words together to make it rhythm. My inspiration for that comes from the music I listen to. I like to listen to different types of music, mainly rap. I like music in whatever language too. Yea different sounds inspire me. I tried for a while making music with my friends. It was kind of hard when starting out but I got used to it and made like one good track. I almost gave up after that but now im writing more lyrics again and trying to keep up with it. I like to play sports and go places with my friends. Frisco is fun. The Metrion, Chinatown, Japantown.
Rosemary Ione McGowan was born and raised in Oakland, California but has attended Berkeley schools since 7 th grade. She sings in the Piedmont Choirs and loves almost every kind of music from Bay rap to The Beatles. She loves being able to express emotions through music and through creative writing as well. She has been writing since she can remember and has recently started a trend of writing (and performing) birthday raps for her friends. She hopes that one day she'll be able to freestyle at the drop of a beat.
Sean is a high school student who feels his life has come to a sudden
and complete stop when his parents separate. He has gone through many
changes and during the second depressing month of not living with his
mom who he was very close to and his two younger siblings, He gets to
travel to Belize which is something he's always wanted to do which
becomes a Dream come true to him at the right time where he feels he
needs to breakaway from his problems.
Solomon Wong is a solipsist. This means he believes himself to be the sole creator of all ten dimensions. Everything he sees is an illusion created to console himself as he lives out his life in a completely blank and empty space. Not a speck of dust, not a line, not even a point truly exists. Only Solomon's consciousness. He invented math. He invented the concept of time. He invented mitosis. He invented verbs. He wrote Catcher in the Rye. He keeps the sun burning, and keeps Mars frozen. When Solomon dies (when his conscious or subconscious decides it is time), all matter, concepts, energy, and waves will disappear in that instant.
Born and brought up in the land of Himalayas, Nepal and moved to the suburbs
of California, the author of the memoir, Tashi Dolma lama had struggled
every challenge that came her way with great determination and enthusiasm.
Making her debutant as an author at a very young age, her writing comprised
with global message for the people from all generations. Her fondness in
traveling and experiencing new ideas and knowledge had given her an
encouragement to summon them into words in the form of memoir, there by
giving the readers a different taste of life and setting a clear picture in
their minds of the events that took place in her life. Very rational and
based on realistic, her memoir would create a positive impact on the
readers. She is very sensitive, down to earth and adventurous.
Willie Cox is a devoted skater and loves to jam to music with his friends. He is the younger brother of the famous Jon-Mychal Cox and also has a younger brother Nicholas Cox. He wishes to someday go by BLACKMAN and save the world.
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ADAM JACOBSON