Ronald Lane

I'm a native Californian, presently living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Colfax. What seems like many years ago, I graduated from Humboldt State University with degrees in Forestry and Botany. From there there I helped to create and manage the largest greenhouse vegetable production facility in the Western United States. I was President of the California Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Association, and Vice President of the American Greenhouse Vegetable Growers Association. When our parent company, Fiberboard Corporation, sold off it's assets, I went to work for the University of California at Davis, where I still work, and have managed greenhouse and field research facilities and ornamental gardens for over twenty years.

I have always enjoyed reading and writing stories, and published my first books in 2006. I write what moves me, whether it's poetry or short stories or novels. After publishing those first books, I have met regularly with the Blue Moon Writers Guild in Davis, Ca, and have taken creative writing courses with UC Davis Extension. Every day I work at writing something, and by doing so I continue to grow as a writer. That's how you get better at anything--by doing it. My work has appeared in Thema, Rose & Thorn, Diverse Voices Quarterly, 69 Flavors of Paranoia, Ophidian, Entering: The Davis Poetry Anthology, four issues of the Blue Moon Literary & Art Review, eight issues of the Rattlesnake Review, nineteen issues of The Yolo Crow, and over the last five years, seventy-nine of my poems have appeared in Medusa’s Kitchen. In 2011 I won short story writing awards with The Yolo Crow and with Phyllis Scott Publishing.