Contributors
October 2019
Writers
David Barsamian founded Alternative Radio, a progressive public-affairs program, thirty-three years ago in Boulder, Colorado. His latest book, with Noam Chomsky, is Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy.
moreMakana Eyre is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere. Originally from Hawaii, he now lives in Paris, France.
moreEvan Lavender-Smith is the founding editor of Noemi Press and the author of From Old Notebooks and Avatar. He teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he binge watches nature documentaries and fakes illness to avoid going on hikes.
moreBecky Mandelbaum lives in Bellingham, Washington, where she edits a lifestyle magazine and dreams about owning 102 dogs. Her novel The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in summer 2020.
moreAngie McCullagh’s writing has appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere. One of the best days of her life was spent tobogganing down the Great Wall of China. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
moreBill McKibben is an environmentalist, author, and cofounder of 350.org, a nonprofit working internationally to end the use of fossil fuels. He teaches environmental science at Middlebury College in Vermont.
moreElizabeth Poliner is the author of the poetry collection What You Know in Your Hands and the novel As Close to Us as Breathing. She teaches at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia.
moreJory Post is the editor and cofounder of phren-Z, an online literary magazine. He lives with his wife in Santa Cruz, California, where they make book art as JoKa Press.
moreDavid Rutschman is the author of the story collection Into Terrible Light. A Soto Zen priest and hospice grief counselor, he lives in California with his wife and two children.
moreCarl Sagan was an astronomer and author who cofounded the Planetary Society. He died in 1996 at the age of sixty-two.
morePhotographers
Shiiko Alexander is a photographer and artist who lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
moreNancie Battaglia has photographed twelve Olympic Games. She lives in Lake Placid, New York.
moreAmy Drummond is a university student and guitar player who lives in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
moreNoëlle Gaberman is a knitter, seamstress, farmhand, and photographer. She lives in the North Bay of California with her husband and two children.
moreMykolas Juodele is a photographer from Vilnius, Lithuania. He learned Persian while traveling in Iran and has hitchhiked on three continents.
moreLewis Koch lives in Madison, Wisconsin. After fifty years of making photographs, he is still taking a long look around.
moreDan Koeck has hiked through Transylvania and biked through Cuba. He lives in Fargo, North Dakota.
moreRick Lingo is a retired educator who took up photography at the age of sixty-six. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
moreVinícius Pinheiro is a graphic designer and digital artist from Montes Claros, Brazil. You can follow him on Instagram: @viniciuspinheirons.
moreDmitriy Semenovskiy is a photographer who lives in Kiev, Ukraine. In his other life, he is a software engineer.
moreCole Thompson’s goal is to move to the Faroe Islands and raise a pack of dogs. Until then, he lives in Laporte, Colorado.
morePreston Utley uses his camera in place of a diary. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
moreOn The Cover
Naomi Stolow is a photographer who lives in South Devon, England. She took the photo on this month’s cover in Svalbard, Norway, in 2018. The polar bear was hunting seals along the edge of a glacier.
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Editorial Associate
& Photo Editor
Rachel J. Elliott
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Proofreader
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Editorial Intern
Anna Gazmarian
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Molly House
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