Contributors

Coleman Barks teaches poetry at the University of Georgia.

Patricia Bralley is a biologist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her story in this issue is from her as-yet-unpublished Thoroughbreds And Other Lesbians.

Joseph Campbell is a world-renowned scholar and lecturer who stands in the forefront of the study of mythology.

Neil Carpathios is a graduate of The Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently a Writer-in-the-Schools in Canton, Ohio.

Bob Davis is a part-time housepainter and part-time yoga teacher who lives on a farm in northern Delaware. He has published stories in New Infinity Review and Dream Streets, and is presently working on a novel called The Global Village Idiot.

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.

John Moyne is a Persian scholar and head of linguistics at the Graduate School of the City University of New York.

Marilee Richards lives in Oakland, California.

Jelaluddin Rumi was a thirteenth century poet who lived most of his life in Konya, Turkey.

Sy Safransky is editor of THE SUN.

Sparrow says he likes asceticism, “but if you like it I guess it’s no longer asceticism.” He lives in Brooklyn, New York.