Contributors
October 1988
Writers
Neena Beber studies playwriting at New York University.
moreStephen T. Butterfield, a Buddhist poet and English professor, lives and dies — mostly in Shrewsbury, Vermont.
moreLou Lipsitz is a poet and father who lives in Chapel Hill. He is reputed to have suffered several wounds; how deep these are no one can say.
moreCal Massey has been writing short fiction the last four years, “conditioning my body to less and less sleep with each 2 a.m. that passes awake.” By day, he’s a media relations manager for an ITT company in Palm Coast, Florida.
moreD. Patrick Miller says that in the Enneagram system of personality, he appears to be type One: The Perfectionist. Helen Palmer has written that Perfectionists have a “tendency to listen to their righteous internal commentary as if it had its origin in some higher plane of existence.”
moreSy Safransky is the editor of The Sun.
moreDeborah Shouse had an essay accepted by Good Housekeeping. “Does that mean that I have to clean up my kitchen?” she asked the editor, who didn’t laugh.
moreJack Underhill is the editor of Life Times, published quarterly in Santa Barbara, California.
moreOn The Cover
T.J. Judd is a woodworker and photographer who lives in Danbury, Connecticut.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Office Manager
Kristy Taylor
Assistant To The Editor
Wendy Bernhardt
Copy Editors
Jan Bellard
Dana Branscum
Typesetting
Samuel Gaines
Subscriptions
Caroline Cahan
Neily Conrad
Production
John Cotterman
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