Contributors
November 2017
Writers
Doug Crandell lives in Douglasville, Georgia. His novel The Flawless Skin of Ugly People was visible in a recent episode of Orange Is the New Black, which generated more e-mails to the author than when the book was published ten years ago. The screenshot can be found at dougcrandell.com.
moreJohn Hodgen teaches English at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. His fourth book of poetry, Heaven & Earth Holding Company, was released by University of Pittsburgh Press, and his first book, In My Father’s House, has just been reprinted.
morePhilip Kelly lives in Newport Beach, California, where each day he swims in the Pacific Ocean and says two prayers to a statue of Saint Francis that sits on his deck. His writing has won a Pushcart Prize.
moreCarrie Knowlton is a nurse who works in an HIV clinic in Denver, Colorado. She has lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan; Niaoulen Tanou, Senegal; and Northern Uganda. She is now trying to have adventures while staying in one place.
moreMark Leviton survived the 1960s through massive doses of Zap Comix, Robert Heinlein novels, Stanley Kubrick films, and Mothers of Invention LPs. He lives in Nevada City, California.
moreScudder Parker has been a Protestant minister, a state senator, a utility regulator, and a candidate for governor. At the age of seventy-four, he is settling into his new job as a poet. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.
moreKenneth Rexroth was a California-based poet who received awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the Academy of American Poets. He died in 1982.
moreMichael Torres spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist in Pomona, California. He teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and lives in Mankato, Minnesota. You can follow him on Twitter: @torresremek
moreAgnieszka Tworek was born and raised in Poland and immigrated to the U.S. when she was eighteen years old. She grows heirloom tomatoes and raspberries in her Vermont backyard, and is working on her first poetry collection.
moreDebbie Urbanski lives in Syracuse, New York. Last summer, after a hiking accident, she checked the following off her bucket list: helicopter rescue from mountain, ambulance ride, midnight surgery, metal implants.
morePhotographers
Nicholas Bell’s photographs have appeared in Black & White, Shutterbug, and Photography Masterclass. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
moreSharon Covert scavenges forests for bones and skulls while nourishing her unreasonable fear of bees. She lives in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.
moreBirgit Gutsche is originally from Alberta, Canada, and now lives in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Her work has appeared in various galleries.
moreAriel Hodara is a Colorado-based photographer and nurse.
moreTroy Mason lives an hour from Mount Rainier in Washington with his wife and two cats.
moreRobert Meyer lives in Red Wing, Minnesota. Hitchhiking and train-hopping across the U.S. at the age of nineteen has left him continually restless as an adult.
moreMike Morgan is a photographer who lives on Kent Island in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay with his wife and daughter.
moreGrant M. Ryan is a photographer whose work has been published in Detroit Metro Times. He lives in Marquette, Michigan.
moreClaire Seder lives in Portland, Oregon, and is a student in the nursing school at Gonzaga University.
moreOmri Shomer is a photographer who lives in Ramat HaSharon, Israel.
moreRoger Watts is a former professional photojournalist who “retired” in 1990 to become a psychotherapist. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
moreOn The Cover
Carol Sternkopf is a photographer who lives in Bend, Oregon. Her work has been published in Cascade Journal, Central Oregon Magazine, and 1859. She took this month’s cover photograph, of her friend Hillary, outside a barn in Bend.
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