GEOFF OLIVER BUGBEE has worked in more than twenty countries as a photojournalist, documenting such issues as hiv/aids and curable blindness. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
SANDRA LOUISE DYAS is sometimes called the “rock-and-roll photographer of Iowa City, Iowa,” because she often photographs musicians. She lives with her two daughters and teaches in the art department at Cornell College.
RACHEL J. ELLIOTT works as an editorial associate at The Sun. She moonlights slinging dough for her family-run business, Stone’s Throw Pizza, where she works with her husband, Seth, and her daughter, Ava, making artisan pizza in a traveling wood-fired oven.
BILL EMORY has been a janitor, plumber, auto mechanic, and cat-scan technologist and has also taken photographs for more than thirty-five years. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
DOUG FATH can often be found standing in small towns with his Hasselblad camera, getting strange looks. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
MARTIN FISHMAN died in February 2010 at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Coney Island Museum in New York.
STEVEN PHILIP GEHRKE’s second book of poetry, The Pyramids of Malpighi (Anhinga Press), won the Philip Levine Prize. He lives in Columbia, Missouri.
DANUSHA VERONICA GOSKA lives in Paterson, New Jersey. After suffering from perilymph fistula for many years, she underwent a surgery that eliminated her symptoms, and she is now in the job market. Her novel, Love Me More: An Addict’s Diary (Xlibris Corporation), is available from Amazon.
SARAH HADLEY lives in Chicago and loves taking photographs in the rain.
ROBERT HECHT’s photographs have been published in B&W and Lenswork. He lives in San Rafael, California.
NANCY HILL is working on a photography project about fools and has a closet full of jester and harlequin costumes. She lives in rainy Portland, Oregon.
JAMES JANKO’s story in the November 2004 issue is part of a novel titled Buffalo Boy and Geronimo, which is forthcoming from Curbstone Press in February 2006.
ALISON LUTERMAN makes a mean bowl of chili. Her secret? Black olives, mustard, and red wine. She lives in Oakland, California.
SUSAN LUZZARO lives with her family in Chula Vista, California. Her essays have been published in Puerto del Sol and Under the Sun, and in an anthology titled Getting By: Stories of Working Lives (Bottom Dog Press).
BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS lives in Eugene, Oregon, and is trying to simultaneously learn Finnish, Hungarian, and Japanese.
LEE ROSSI is the perfect company man. He has no hobbies or interests outside his job. He barely remembers his wife’s name, and indeed has forgotten the names of his two children. He believes that if no one notices him, maybe Death will overlook him too. He is the author of two books of poetry: Ghost Diary (Terrapin Press) and Beyond Rescue (Bombshelter Press). He lives in Culver City, California.
SY SAFRANSKY is editor and publisher of The Sun.
KEITH HARMON SNOW is a photographer and human-rights investigative journalist who travels extensively in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
KAREN TWEEDY-HOLMES works as an editor so that she doesn’t have to photograph lipstick or salad to pay the rent. She lives in New York City and devotes one day each weekend to a palomino quarter horse named Lucky, though she insists that she’s the lucky one.
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).
ELOISE WARREN is a photographer living in Somerville, Massachusetts.
On the Cover
Photographer LAUREN GOODSMITH is the author of The Children of Mauritania: Days in the Desert and by the River Shore (Carolrhoda Books). A native New Yorker, she currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her cat and her horse. She took this month’s cover photograph in the late 1980s in the Kashmir Valley between India and Pakistan. She visited the region during a period of high tension, with both Indian and Pakistani forces conducting military drills nearby. Though cautioned that the Kashmiri people were inhospitable to outsiders, she found the opposite to be true. The woman on the cover invited Goodsmith into her home for some salt tea (similar to bouillon), and the photographer took her picture by the light coming in through the solitary window.






