Writers

Finn Cohen is a senior editor at The Sun.

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Meghan Daniels’s short fiction has previously appeared in The Masters Review; this is her first published poem. She lives in Pawling, New York, and is at work on a novel set in a thinly disguised version of the town. She is grateful for early mornings, libraries, and her two very spirited children.

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Todd Davis lives along the Allegheny Front near Tipton, Pennsylvania. He often wanders small mountain streams, looking for the tracks of fishers and bobcats. He’s the author of eight collections of poetry, the most recent being Ditch Memory.

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Anne Falkowski lives in Connecticut. She once owned a yoga studio but now gives her full attention to story-making. She may or may not have been obsessed with General Hospital as a young teen. (annefalkowski.net).

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Jackleen Holton works as an astrologer and sometimes finds poems on the rim of a canyon in San Diego, California. Her work has appeared in North American Review, Poet Lore, Rattle, and anthologies like The Giant Book of Poetry and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology.

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Lenore Myka lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and shares her house with both native and non-native wildlife. She is the author of an award-winning story collection and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

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Rose Whitmore works in a shed (it’s a nice shed) in her backyard, alongside a flock of beloved chickens who take turns sitting on her lap while she writes. Her debut novel, Exiled, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. She lives in San Leandro, California. (rosewhitmore.com)

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Photographers

Sol Anzorena and her partner spent five years writing and illustrating a graphic novel about the adventures of their beloved dog, Reynard. When she isn’t painting, playing music, or beading, she can be found walking in the woods around Wakefield, Michigan. (solanzorena.art)

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Hana Arielle was born in Memphis, Tennessee; she has since relocated to Chicago, Illinois, and plans to bounce around cities across the US. She is currently training for a triathlon and the New York City Marathon.

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Charles Brooks is an Australia-based photographer best known for revealing the hidden interiors of rare musical instruments. A former professional cellist, he now travels around the world photographing the parts of instruments that are heard but never seen.

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Jess Falkenhagen lives with her family in an old adobe house also home to over five thousand books, at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico.

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Elli Gurfinkel fell in love with photography as a child on photo-taking trips with his father around their Ukrainian town. A former photojournalist, he is now a nurse, but he still notices striking images and is sometimes lucky enough to capture them. He lives in Michigan.

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Adam Litchkofski is a writer and photographer based in northeast Pennsylvania. (adamlitchkofski.com)

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Stephen Maloney is a writer and photographer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been taking pictures since the nineties, when film was still developed in parking lot kiosks and advancing the roll was the ultimate ASMR.

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Doug McMains’s photographs are represented by Getty Images. He lives in Herman, Nebraska.

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Patty O’Brien is a photographer living in Marietta, Pennsylvania. She enjoys documenting life along the Susquehanna River. Instagram: @summercrowphotos.

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Rob Perry shoots film with vintage cameras. His photographs are currently featured as part of a collaborative artist exhibit titled “Gayzing.” He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

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Karen Yeomans is a London-based advertising and editorial photographer specializing in women’s sports, movement, and fitness. When not on the sidelines, she shares adventures with her Welsh terrier, Ruby. (karenyeomans.com)

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On The Cover

The Sun Magazine May 2026 cover showing a tintype of Chief Adjuah holding a custom brass horn

Will Harlan Campbell lives in Durham, North Carolina, just a couple of miles from the high school where he took his first photography class some thirty years ago. Today he specializes in analog and historic photographic processes. His tintype portrait of Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah was exposed directly on a sensitized metal plate in camera using the historic wet-plate collodion process. (willharlancampbell.com)

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