President

Una Daly received the Jack London Service Award in 2025 for her service to the South Bay Writers branch. Over the last twenty years she has served as a newsletter contributor and editor, webmaster, and currently her position as board president. Her writing focus is poetry and memoir despite many years in software engineering and more recently non-profit educational administration.

For more information: linkedin.com/in/una-daly-286b055/

Vice President

Shari Clare had a long career as a technical writer before shifting her focus to fiction. Shortly after joining South Bay Writers in 2023, she became Membership Chair. Now serving as VP, she especially enjoys her responsibility of recruiting speakers for the club’s monthly meetings. She has completed a beta draft of "Upheavals", a novel inspired by a real-life murder.

Treasurer

Alice is a life-long writer who wrote her first work of fiction at the age of 11, and her first novel at the age of 14. With a strong interest in science, she graduated with a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from UC San Diego. She writes cross-genre fiction that combines science fiction, romance and fantasy.

For more information:
https://wordsnotyetborn.wordpress.com/

Membership

Tonya Graham McQuade is an author, educator, and speaker. She has a love for history and historical fiction and a passion for travel and writing, both of which she has been pursuing more fully since retiring from teaching English at Los Gatos High School in 2025. Tonya has published two non-fiction books and written many blog posts, poems, and news articles.

For more information: tonyagrahammcquade.com

Secretary

My name is Yvette Van Doren. Throughout my education and professional life I've believed and practiced my creativity believing in the term "The Medium is the Message," by Marshall McLuhan, professor and philosopher, who taught about the importance of using a creative medium in any content that delivers meaningful communication that affects the society. I followed this philosophy of communication by attending New York University, School of the Arts, in dance, drama, film script writing and performance.

Web Editor/Technology Chair

Hal Schoolcraft is a career software developer who is now retired and looking forward to exercising the other half of his brain by exploring writing, music and digital art endeavors. He likes writing short story fiction that explores the magical, mystical and paranormal areas of the imagination. He would like to branch out into longer form work targeted at the young adult segment, but writes primarily for the sheer enjoyment of it all.

Photographer

Joe-Ming Cheng is an engineer, inventor, and author of three historical suspense novels and STEM books for children. With a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and 40+ years in algorithms, data compression, and patent law, his innovations generated $2.4 billion in IBM products. A lifelong explorer, he leads nature-literature-science tours while pursuing awe, beauty, and lifelong learning.

For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/heja-joeming/home

Photographer

Carolyn Donnell resumed writing again in 2003 when she joined California Writers Club -South Bay Branch. They honored her in 2018 with the Matthews-Baldwin Award and CWC’s Jack London Award in 2019. She currently has two novels – Deeper Colors and Blood Will Tell (under C. S. Donnell), short stories and poems in various anthologies, and paintings on fineartamerica.

For more information:
https://www.amazon.com/C-S-Donnell/e/B017GGDZTI
https://carolyndonnell.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/carolyn.donnell.9

Member at Large

Amanda Senior is a writer from Guernsey living in California. Her short story, “The Shape of Us,” has been published in the San Joaquin Valley Writers Club Anthology, 2025. Her historical fiction short story, “Out With The Tide,” was published by Blue Ormer in the Guernsey Anthology, 2026, “Time and Tide.” She also provides articles for the Los Gatan newspaper. Amanda can be found writing from her outdoor office where inspiration strikes, and dead heading roses when it doesn’t.

Member at Large

Ryan's works include untold pages of Training Manuals, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Best-Practice guides, long forgotten in the drawers of former teammates or hidden in the dark recesses of a team’s digital folder. He loves learning and sharing random things and enjoys all kinds of videogames. He is currently working on a fiction novel.

For more information:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-davis-marsh/

Member News

SBW newsletter editor 7 years. Three published novels; publisher now out of business. Taught high school math 30 years. 62 years various jobs for Fibonacci Quarterly, an academic mathematics journal. Have pilot's license; flew a Mooney K with husband as far south as Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; as far north as Calgary, Canada; as far east as New York. Now retired.