Issue 216 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

December 1993

Writers

Antler is the author of Last Words and Ever-Expanding Wilderness. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Dina Ben-Lev, of Seattle, Washington, has just completed a book of poems, Sober on a Small Plane. Her poetry has appeared in Field, Poetry East, and the Gettysburg Review.

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Brenda Demartini is a visiting assistant professor of English at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Her writing has appeared in Mississippi Mud, Kansas Quarterly, and Three Rivers Poetry Journal.

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John Taylor Gatto lives in New York City. He dedicates “Bitter Lessons,” which appears in this issue, to “my daughter Briseis, the best math teacher on earth.”

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Fred Hill has worked with computer systems, studied music, and been a blacksmith. He now lives on a small farm near Boise, Idaho, where he and his wife raise horses and cows.

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Clare Lake’s work has appeared in Nebraska Review and Carolina Quarterly. She lives in Arizona.

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Lyn Lifshin edited Tangled Vines, an anthology of mother-and-daughter poems, and she holds mother-daughter poetry workshops all over the country. She lives in Niskayuna, New York.

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Alison Luterman taught English to Haitian refugees in Miami in 1981. Later she wrote a novel about her experiences called Where Spirits Walk, for which she’s seeking a publisher. “Your Own People,” which appears in this issue, is excerpted from it.

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Jon Remmerde is a writer from Livermore, Colorado. He manages a Girl Scout ranch in the Rocky Mountains.

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Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

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Tomas Alex Tizon is a staff writer for the Seattle Times. One of his essays, “Epiphany,” is part of the anthology Choosing to Emerge (HarperCollins). He lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Sean Twomey is working toward an MFA in writing at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colorado.

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On The Cover

Gregory Thorp is a photographer from New Haven, Connecticut, but says he has no darkroom experience and couldn’t even print you a wallet-size.

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Editor
Sy Safransky

Business Manager
Susan E. Ganung

Assistant Editor
Pamela Tarr Penick

Editorial Assistant
Bob Rehak

Copy Editors
Seth Mirsky
Violette Phillips

Editorial Apprentice
Anthony Alvarez

Readers
Carolyn Acree
Adam Beales

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