Contributors

Marianne Bevan is a public servant and writer from New Zealand now living in New York City. Her work has been published in the New Zealand journals Landfall and Headland but mostly appears in government reports. 

Chris Dombrowski is heartened by his English setter puppy and Roberto Bolaño’s novels. His latest book is The River You Touch. He lives in Missoula, Montana, where he is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Montana.

Hannah Gregory is a writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but almost everything she writes leads her back to New England, where she grew up. (hannahgrgr.com)

Jodie Hollander is the author of two poetry collections: My Dark Horses and Nocturne. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship in South Africa, she lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Michael Mark is the author of the poetry chapbook Visiting Her in Queens Is More Enlightening Than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet. He lives in San Diego, California. (michaeljmark.com)

Fern Morton is the pseudonym of a novelist in Washington, DC, who is obsessed with both lying and telling the truth. If her father is reading this: Yes, Dad, it’s me.

Gary Percesepe lives in White Plains, New York, and roots shamelessly for the Yankees. He is the author of Moratorium: Collected Stories and a new book of poetry, The Girl of My Dream. His essay in this issue is from his memoir-in-progress. (garypercesepe.com)

Sam Risak is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University and the creative-nonfiction editor for Sweet: A Literary Confection. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Writer’s Digest, and The Writer’s Chronicle. (samrisak.com)

Pete Duval is a photographer, fiction writer, and professor of English who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with his wife, his daughter, and a fluctuating number of cats.

Thomas Sayers Ellis’s last book, Crank Shaped Notes, contains poems, prose, and photography. He died in July 2025. 

Grace Farag was born and raised in Southern California. She now lives in the Sierra foothills, where she continues to use photography as an excuse to go for long, aimless drives. 

Blossom Hibbert lives in the Australian outback, where she works on a dairy farm. She has spent the past few years traveling and taking photographs on an old Fujifilm.

Russell Houlston was born in England and now lives in Walnut Creek, California. Over his many careers, he has been a fencer, a geophysicist, and a professional mushroom hunter. His work has appeared in LensCulture, Smithsonian, and Communication Arts.

Jordan Thomas Law got tired of carrying people’s furniture up and down stairs in Melbourne, Australia; now he’s a New York–based photographer and director and carries film equipment up and down stairs instead. His work has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, and Elle. Instagram: @jordan.thomas.law.

Ingrid Lockhart lives in Evergreen, Colorado, with her husband. She has pursued photography ever since retiring from the financial-services industry a decade ago.

Peter Miller is a photographer and attorney based in Columbia, South Carolina.

Y. Hope Osborn is a disabled writer, photographer, digital artist, and editor living in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Suzanne Pedersen lives in Arvada, Colorado. After twenty-five years behind the lens, she prioritizes experimentation to keep her work fresh. When not taking photos, she helps others reach their fitness goals at a local gym.

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

Lloyd Wolf lives in Arlington, Virginia, where he leads the Columbia Pike Documentary Project. His latest book is A Joyful Noise: Klezmer in Motion. (lloydwolf.com)

Neil Jacobs has been a still photographer for over fifty years. His photojournalism career began in Northern California and took him to New Mexico, where he worked for the Santa Fe bureau of the Albuquerque Journal. He took this month’s cover image while on assignment in Roy, New Mexico, when he found himself drawn to the uncompleted mural behind a patron at a bar. (neiljacobsphotographer.com)