Gail
Entrekin

Gail Rudd Entrekin grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, earned a Masters in English literature from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to the Bay Area in 1978. She married Charles in 1984, and they moved to Nevada City in 1995. Gail has been a sales clerk, switchboard operator, bookkeeper, girl Friday for a television production company, waitress, overseas telephone operator, copy writer, public relations coordinator, advertising production manager, word processor, secretary, assistant editor of a boating magazine, and the mother of Ben, Nathan and Kate, step mother of Demian and Caleb, mother-in-law of Beth and Jessamine, and grandmother of Nicky and Clayton.

She is a poet, editor, publisher, teacher and community activist. Books of her poems include John Danced (Berkeley Poets Workshop & Press, 1988), You Notice the Body (Hip Pocket Press, 1998) and Change (Will Do You Good) (Poetic Matrix Press, 2005). Her poems have been widely published in poetry magazines. She is co-publisher and poetry editor of Hip Pocket Press, where she served as editor of the 2002 anthology Sierra Songs & Descants: Poetry & Prose of the Sierra, and since 2000 has served as poetry editor of Hip Pocket Press.

She taught English and Creative Writing at Sierra College in Grass Valley, California, and for many years taught poetry to kids with California Poets in the Schools. She has served on the boards of Literature Alive! and The Entrekin Foundation, and her latest collection, Change (Will Do You Good), was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in poetry in 2006.

Gail was the editor of the Women's Writing Salon from Jan. 2006 to April 2008 at the Nevada County Arts Council's website.

Her Salon writings to date are:
 
Berkeley Morning
Fear
Hole In The House
Letting Go
Long Stemmed Roses In The Sink
Loss
Not Having Ever Been Prom Queen
Recovery Room (the State of Unknowing)
The Goats
When You Were A Boy