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MANAGE YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONERIC ANDERSON’s poetry was recently published at Conte Online. He still doesn’t have a title for his forthcoming collection of poems, and the situation is becoming desperate. He lives in Elyria, Ohio.
KENT BEHRENS is a photographer who lives in Omaha, Nebraska. His work is currently being exhibited at Omaha’s Botanical Center.
BRIAN BUCKBEE divides his time between Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Missoula, Montana. His short story in this issue is from a book he is completing titled Dear Dipshit: Letters to My Dumb, Future Self. His work has appeared in Threepenny Review, Mid-American Review, and Shenandoah.
DOUG CRANDELL lives on a small farm outside of Atlanta, Georgia, and works at the Institute on Human Development and Disability at the University of Georgia. He sometimes writes in his chicken coop, where his flock whispers opening lines to him.
SYLVIA DE SWAAN was the founding director of Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, and is currently a visiting instructor at Hamilton College.
LONNIE HULL DUPONT lives in rural Michigan, where she works as a book editor and writer. She is the author of The Haiku Box (Tuttle Publishing) as well as five poetry chapbooks from small San Francisco presses.
SARA GOLDENTHAL is a photographer who currently makes her living as an artist’s model in Portland, Maine. She also sings with a jazz trio and is working on a book of cat drawings.
MAURY GORTEMILLER is a writer and freelance photographer living in Greenville, South Carolina.
DUNCAN GREEN recently got married for the first time at the age of fifty-three. He works as a bicycle advocate for the transit agency in Olympia, Washington.
EDIS JURCYS’s latest book of photographs is The Hill of Crosses. Gardens of Life. He was born in Lithuania and now lives with his wife in Portland, Oregon, where he recently fell in love with tango dancing.
STUART KESTENBAUM is the author of two books of poems, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions). He lives in Deer Isle, Maine.
HEATHER KING is an ex-lawyer, an ex-drunk, a Catholic convert, and the author of three memoirs: Parched (the dark years), Redeemed (crawling toward the light), and Shirt of Flame. She blogs at www.shirtofflame.blogspot.com.
CHRISTOPHER LOPEZ owns a window-cleaning company in Clintondale, New York. His photographs have been published in the journals American Photo and Shots and the book NYC: Life Going On (Syracuse University Press).
PAT MacENULTY’s most recent book is Wait until Tomorrow: A Daughter’s Memoir. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a roommate, a blind cat, and two electric pianos. She teaches writing at Johnson & Wales University, a school known for its culinary college, but she still can’t cook. She blogs on writing at www.transformativewriting.blogspot.com.
ANNA KAUFMAN MOON is the author of a self-published book of photographs called Reflections of New York City: 1963–1972. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, the New York Times, and Life. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.
LINDA McCULLOUGH MOORE is doing headstands and sending up flares to herald the publication of her new collection of stories, This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon, a book that she says comes highly recommended by the author. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
LINK NICOLL photographs mostly people — some famous, some not. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
DION OGUST lives in Woodstock, New York, and is a staff photographer for the Woodstock Times. Her portraits of writers and musicians have appeared on book and CD covers.
SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.
THERESA WILLIAMS’s novel The Secret of Hurricanes (MacAdam/Cage) was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. She is addicted to bubbly drinks, watermelon, and cowboy boots and lives in northwest Ohio with her husband, two Boston terriers, and an assortment of cats.
HARRY WILSON’s photos have appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. “In other words,” he says, “I am an unknown photographer.” He lives in Bakersfield, California.
BILL WITT provides volunteer photo services for several nonprofit organizations and drives a truck for the Northeast Iowa Food Bank once a week. He is the author of Orchids in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Native Orchids of Iowa and Enchanted by Prairie. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
JACKIE WLODARCZAK is a photographer and teacher living in New York City.
On the Cover
For more than twenty-five years HELEN M. STUMMER has been photographing the lives and struggles of poor people in Newark, New Jersey, and on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. One winter day, she noticed ice coming from the ground-floor windows of a three-story tenement. The pipes in the building had burst, but a family was still living inside, the neighbors said. On the third floor Stummer found the family matriarch (pictured on this month’s cover) watching her grandchildren while the other adults were out looking for work. There was no heat in the building, so the children were crowded into the kitchen to keep warm by the gas jets of the stove. Stummer lives in Metuchen, New Jersey, and is the author of No Easy Walk: Newark, 1980-1993 (Temple University Press).
