Contributors  November 2003 | issue 335

ALYSSA H. AXSOM is a photographer living in Lafayette, Colorado.

RITA BERNSTEIN is a reluctant traveler and thus takes most of her photographs close to her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CHRIS BURSK lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Improbable Swervings of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press). When he’s not teaching or writing poetry, he spends much of his time chasing his grandchildren.

JAMES CARROLL’s first love was baseball. He pursues his second love (photography) in New York City.

MORGAN CAUFIELD died in February 2010 at the age of fifty-four. She worked with developmentally disabled children in Sebastopol, California.

MATT KOLLASCH is a photographer living in Warsaw, Poland.

ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.

MORTON MARCUS lives in Santa Cruz, California, and is the author of several books of poetry, including Moments without Names (White Pine) and Shouting Down the Silence (Creative Arts).

JULIE McCARTHY is a freelance photographer living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She says that she fully intends to die with camera in hand — just not anytime soon.

SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.

JASMINE SKYE is soldiering on through the Twelve Steps in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She's currently working on her first novel and looking for an agent.

SPARROW has moved back to Phoenicia, New York, where he lives with his wife, Violet Snow. He is still a Yankees fan, despite certain political misgivings, and is addicted to Sudoku, YouTube, and pretzels.

KERRY ST. OURS is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.

CORVIN THOMAS lives in San Francisco. As a writer, he takes inspiration from the language of his two children: “I got stung by a pimple,” his two-year-old daughter says; “I smell bacon on the baby wind,” says his four-year-old son.

MARK TOWNSEND lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Photographer NATALIE URMINSKA recently moved from Hawaii to New York City.

ERIN VAN RHEENEN divides her time between California and Costa Rica. She has taught writing at City College of New York and in the San Francisco County Jail. She has a new book titled Living Abroad in Costa Rica (Avalon Travel Publishing).

SUZI Q. VARIN is a photographer, skater, sudoku addict, and late-blooming cook who lives with her husband in the great state of Texas. Her work has been featured in Southern Living, Town and Country, and Exquisite Weddings.

GENIE ZEIGER was a longtime contributor to The Sun who lived in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She died on December 24, 2009.

On the Cover

REINHARD GORN is a native of Berlin, Germany. A former social worker, he has made his living from photography since 1982. He teaches and does commercial work to pay the bills, but he prefers to photograph strangers on the streets. It is, he says, his therapy. He took this month's cover photograph in Budapest, Hungary, where he lived for part of 1992. After a summer storm, he went outside with his camera and found a young girl standing in the middle of a flooded road. More of Gorn's work can be seen at www.gorn-photodesign.de.