Randy White

Randy White is a writer and educator living with his wife and daughter in Rocklin, California.

Besides being the author of Motherlode/La Veta Madre (Blue Oak/ Capra Press), he has been awarded the Bazzanella Literary Award for both poetry and short fiction. His work has appeared in the Range of Light Anthology, From These Hills: Stories and Poems of The American West, Sulfur, Sierra Journal, Poetry Now, News From Native California and other magazines. He was also a finalist in both New York’s Inkwell Poetry Competition. A short story “In the Mouth of Heaven” was nominated to appear in the anthology: Best New Voices in American Fiction.

He gives readings of both poetry, fiction and biography and has appeared at Sierra College, The Western Literature Conferences, The University of Oklahoma, CSU Chico, The University of Arizona, Southern Oregon College and other venues as well as being sponsored to lecture on writing by Poets & Writers Inc.

Currently he is completing a biography of the Native Californian known as Ishi, and a young adult novel River Sons and Daughters about a boy who uses the power of story to save a river and his community from destruction.