Contributors

Molly Bashaw grew up on small farms in New England and Upstate New York, and currently lives in Würzburg, Germany, with her husband and daughter. Her debut collection of poems is The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It.

Alice Bradley lives in New York with her husband and Leo, a feisty Chihuahua mix. She has written three forthcoming children’s picture books. (alicebradley.net)

Suzanne Greenberg is a novelist and professor of creative writing at California State University, Long Beach, and on weekends can be found wandering very slowly through her neighborhood with her aging dog, Scuba. (suzannegreenberg.com)

Gary Jackson is the Toi Derricotte Endowed Chair of English at the University of Pittsburgh, and the director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics. His latest poetry collection is small lives.

James Davis May lives in a mildly haunted house in Georgia. His third poetry collection, My Lost Saints, will be published in 2027.

Leath Tonino is a freelance writer who has contributed twenty-odd pieces to The Sun since 2013. He currently resides in Colorado.

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of four books of nonfiction as well as the short-story collection The Melting Season and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He lives in Ohio, where he is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College.

Ronald P. Abeles received his first camera when he was ten years old from his uncle Joe. Seventy years later he is still taking photos. He lives in Southern California.

Ian Bassingthwaighte is a novelist and photographer living in Maine. His first novel, Live from Cairo, was published in 2017. (igbass.com)

Monte Allen Hostetler is legally blind in his right eye and sees in 2D, which enhances his ability to visualize the world through the lens of his camera. He lives in Maryland and plays a mean harmonica.

Caden Jordt lives in Kalispell, Montana. He studied art education at the University of Montana and currently works with middle school students. Instagram: @cadenpjordt.

Benjamin Margalit was a commercial photographer for more than fifty years before he closed his studio and moved to Florida. He now takes his time observing, and when he sees something that he likes, he turns it into an image that he loves.

Reuben Radding photographs life unfolding, often on the streets of New York City, where he lives. His first photo book, Heavenly Arms, was published in 2024 and collects ten years of his work.

Fadwa Rouhana is a self-taught Palestinian photographer living in Bethlehem in the West Bank. Photography allows her to better understand and find her place within the richness of human experience. Her work has been shown in Venice, Milan, and New York. (fadwarouhana.com)

Daniel Saman is an epidemiologist raised in rural Kentucky by Jordanian-immigrant parents. Since then, life has carried him to the forests of Minnesota and the flash of Miami. He loves rock climbing, cross-country skiing, and revisiting memories of the Northwoods. Instagram: @scienceisking.

Sherry Shahan is a septuagenarian who studies pole dancing in a laid-back California beach town. She’s currently writing short stories and articles about pole sports and burlesque.

Joseph Stern began traveling the world in 1989 and never stopped. He is a winner of the Paris Photo Awards and the International Photography Awards. He is based in Ohio. (blackmarketsoul.com)

Naomi Stolow left a long e-commerce career in London for a better life deep in the UK countryside. She lives in an old milking parlor and loves taking pictures of wildlife, nature, and occasionally people.

Morgan Tyree is retired after thirty-three years of teaching graphic design, which he’s always thought of as a young person’s job. He lives in Powell, Wyoming.

Kim Weimer has been documenting her Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, community for decades, striving to capture the essence of everyday life there.

Fernando Gomes aims to convey, through his photographs, the experience of a split second in time. This month’s cover photograph is of his wife, Hanna, on her twenty-third birthday. (fernandogomes.co)