Contributors

Neena Beber studies playwriting at New York University.

Stephen T. Butterfield, a Buddhist poet and English professor, lives and dies — mostly in Shrewsbury, Vermont.

Lou Lipsitz is a poet and father who lives in Chapel Hill. He is reputed to have suffered several wounds; how deep these are no one can say.

Cal Massey has been writing short fiction the last four years, “conditioning my body to less and less sleep with each 2 a.m. that passes awake.” By day, he’s a media relations manager for an ITT company in Palm Coast, Florida.

D. Patrick Miller says that in the Enneagram system of personality, he appears to be type One: The Perfectionist. Helen Palmer has written that Perfectionists have a “tendency to listen to their righteous internal commentary as if it had its origin in some higher plane of existence.”

Sy Safransky is the editor of The Sun.

Deborah Shouse had an essay accepted by Good Housekeeping. “Does that mean that I have to clean up my kitchen?” she asked the editor, who didn’t laugh.

Jack Underhill is the editor of Life Times, published quarterly in Santa Barbara, California.