Contributors

Derek Askey is an associate editor at The Sun. He lives in Durham, North Carolina, with his wife and infant son.

Rebecca Baggett is the author of five poetry collections. She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she gets her exercise installing native plants and chasing her five-year-old grandson.

Peter Gordon spent his early years living and working on five different continents but now lives in Massachusetts, where he rarely leaves town. His recent work has appeared in Ploughshares and Post Road.

Brenda Miller is professor emeritus at Western Washington University. Her work has received seven Pushcart prizes. She lives in Bellingham, Washington, with her handsome rescue mutt, Barnaby.

Emily Mitchell lives with her husband just outside Washington, DC. Her second story collection, The Church of Divine Electricity, will be available in November 2025. Because she felt she wasn’t quite nerdy enough, she has been getting into bird-watching.

Joel Peckham has published eleven collections of poetry and nonfiction. He teaches at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.

Sy Safranksy is founder and editor emeritus of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Leath Tonino is the author of two books and hundreds of magazine pieces. When not writing, he records experimental electronic music, paints abstract watercolors, and discusses the great questions of life with his dog.

Carson Antley first picked up a camera while earning a business degree at LA Tech University and never looked back. Religion is a primary motivation in his work, as he believes the innate perfection of the world around us is proof of divinity.

Eric Davidove discovered street photography while searching for a new sense of purpose and direction after an unexpected job loss. It has given him a deeper appreciation for fleeting interactions and the quiet poetry of public life.

Tim Easton is a singer-songwriter living in Nashville, Tennessee. When he reached the milestone of having a hundred published original songs, he celebrated by releasing a hundred solo-performance videos on a hundred consecutive days on YouTube.

Gloria Baker Feinstein lives in Oregon with her dog, Charlie. Their favorite thing to do together is to spend time on the coast, watching the waves wash onto the shore and sometimes chasing them too.

Steve Gross and his partner, Susan Daley, are the authors of thirteen books on architecture and design. Fascinated with the American landscape, they can often be found driving on back roads, seeking out strange and interesting places.

Drayden Hebb is a retired clinical social worker and small-sailboat builder (just one) from Baltimore, Maryland. She has been making photographs for over forty years.

Ian Hill lives in the boonies of Nederland, Colorado. When he’s not working in the lab as founder and CTO of Mente Medical, odds are he’s in the mountains pedaling single-track, running ridgelines, or dangling from a rope shooting pictures and video.

Ann Hubard is a retired attorney and avid photographer and cyclist living in Portland, Oregon, where she spends much of her time protesting. She lives with her wonderful wife, Taylor, of thirty-six years.

Lex Kim is a self-taught photographer and darkroom printer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her practice is rooted in a deep curiosity about people and their stories, with a focus on long-term documentary projects.

Emma Knight is a private chef, mother, vocalist, and printmaker. While raising her son, she continues to connect to her community through local food and the expressive arts.

Suzanne Pedersen has been making photos for over twenty-four years and enjoys using all kinds of cameras: 35mm, medium format, large format, Polaroid/instant, pinhole, and digital. She lives in the Denver, Colorado, area.

Morgan Tyree lives in Powell, Wyoming, with two cats, Eddie and Wilma. He can still do fifty consecutive push-ups on a good day.

Kim Weimer is based in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is dedicated to inspiring the viewer to look past people’s exteriors.

Lloyd Wolf dreams of—and tries to work toward—a wiser, kinder, more just world. His latest book is A Joyful Noise: Klezmer in Motion.

Wesley Verhoeve is a photographer based in the Netherlands. He took this month’s cover photo in Manhattan, New York, in 2019. Artist Ephraim Gebre was just about to start painting a mural on the wall behind him.