Contributors

Patricia Bralley lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where she’s working on her Ph.D. in molecular biology, and “finding it a rich source of metaphors for a more artful approach to life.” She’s also part owner of a medical lab.

Stephen Knauth lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. His latest book of poems, The Pine Figures, will be published this year by Dooryard Press.

Janet McCann lives in College Station, Texas, and teaches at Texas A & M. She’s the editor of Piddiddle.

Richard Meisler writes and teaches in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His book, Trying Freedom: The Case for Liberating Education, was published in 1984 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Lorenzo W. Milam lives in San Diego, California. He’s the author of The Cripple Liberation Front Marching Band Blues and, most recently, The Radio Papers, both published by Mho & Mho Works.

Duncan Moran recently graduated front the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, North Carolina and now lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Tim Siebles lives in Dallas, Texas.

Sparrow is getting his teeth rearranged at “the wild and woolly” New York University Dental School. He says, “You have to wait an enormously long time and be worked on by people who are almost shaking with fear — students. The last time I went, this Italian from Italy, Nicole, cleaned me. Very sober young woman, glasses and impressively bad complexion, businesslike, distant, and yet when she leaned on me, to polish my bicuspids, I felt in her arm this great tenderness. We had a short conversation afterward, I paid thirty-five dollars, and left feeling like I’d gone to a prostitute. One of my great experiences.”