• National advertising • National media campaign • Advance reader copies • Course adoption mailing • Berkeley • Boston • Minneapolis • San Francisco • Santa Cruz is co-author (with Laura Davis) of the best-selling (HarperCollins 1988, 1994), which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including , and . In 1980, Ms. Bass was awarded the Elliston Book Award for Poetry from the Universityof Cincinnati. Last year, she won Nimrod/Hardman’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, judged by Thomas Lux. She was nominated for a 2001 Pushcart Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, where she has taught creative writing for 25 years. She has also taught writing workshops at many conferences nationally and in Mallorca, Spain.