Contributors
June 2015
Writers
Krista Bremer lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
moreGregory Bright was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly three decades. After teaching himself to read and write while incarcerated, he appealed the verdict and was acquitted. He is a public speaker and actor who has appeared in 12 Years a Slave and American Horror Story. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
moreVladimir Bukovsky spent a total of twelve years in labor camps, prisons, and psychiatric hospitals for his political dissidence in the Soviet Union. He lives in Cambridge, England, and serves on the advisory council for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
moreCatherine Freeling lives in Berkeley, California, where she recently celebrated getting married and turning seventy. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Bellevue Literary Review, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere.
moreTracy Frisch is a homesteader and freelance journalist who lives within a mile of three dairy farms in rural New York. It’s a simple life that she complicates as a local troublemaker — also known as a grassroots organizer.
moreLyn Lifshin has published more than 130 books, including All the Poets Who Have Touched Me; Tangled as the Alphabet: The Turkey Poems; and When a Cat Dies. She is the subject of the documentary film Not Made of Glass and lives in Vienna, Virginia.
moreD.T. Lumpkin lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was banned from volunteering at a prison’s death row unit after he helped his creative-writing students publish their work. He teaches at Middle Tennessee State University.
morePeter Mountford is the author of the novels The Dismal Science and A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism. For a few years after college he was the token liberal in a right-wing think tank. He now lives in Seattle, Washington, and teaches at Sierra Nevada College.
moreLara Naughton is a documentary playwright who collaborates with individuals who have faced homelessness, HIV/AIDS, wrongful conviction, incarceration, and torture. She teaches creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and lives beside the Mississippi River.
moreSy Safransky is editor and publisher of The Sun.
morePhotographers
Edwin Barkdoll is a veterinarian who lives in Down East Maine with his wife and pets.
moreRene Bechard lives with three dogs, twelve cats, and one husband in Arcanum, Ohio. Her work has been featured online and in local newspapers.
moreGloria Baker Feinstein is a Kansas City, Missouri, photographer whose images have been collected in From the Heart: A Mosaic of Memories and Among the Ashes. She’s a pretty decent Scrabble player.
moreJon Kral’s photojournalism on the inhumane prison conditions in Caracas, Venezuela, led to the closing of one maximum-security facility and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He spent decades photographing for three daily Florida newspapers and now lives in Boone, North Carolina.
moreSusan Lirakis is teaching herself to play djembe — a type of African drum — and banjo. She lives in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.
moreDan Pearlman is a jazz trumpeter and photographer. One of his proudest moments was when one of his images — five siblings in foster care — prompted a couple to adopt all five children.
moreCynthia E. Wood lives in San Francisco, California. A long time ago, when she was in her twenties, she lived in Paris, and a little piece of her heart still resides there.
moreOn The Cover
Michael Dvorak’s work has been featured in The New York Times and The Utne Reader and exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He took this month’s cover photograph in 2007 during a Fourth of July celebration in Annandale, Minnesota. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
moreEditor and Publisher
Sy Safransky
Managing Editor
Carol Ann Fitzgerald
Senior Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Robert Graham
Digital-Media Director
David Mahaffey
Manuscript Editor
Colleen Donfield
Assistant Editor
Luc Saunders
Editorial Associate
& Photo Editor
Rachel J. Elliott
Editorial Assistant
Derek Askey
Proofreader
Seth Mirsky
Associate Publisher
Krista Bremer
Director of Finance
Becky Gee
Circulation Manager
Molly Herboth
Office Manager
Holly McKinney
With Help From
Manuscript Reading
Dave Hart
Paula Jolin
Gillian Kendall
Writing Retreats
Angela Winter
Proofreading
Erica Berkeley