Bart Schneider

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 six 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, BEAUTIFUL INEZ, THE MAN IN THE BLIZZARD, NAMELESS DAME, and GIACOMETTI'S LAST RIDE His three poetry books are THE DAILY FEAST, 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.

In October 2022, THE DAILY FEAST, Schneider's poetry collaboration, with Sonoma painter Chester Arnold, appeared.

Schneider's second collaboration with Chester Arnold, the novel GIACOMETTI'S LAST RIDE, was published in September 2025.