Contributors

Poe Ballantine is a writer living in Chadron, Nebraska. His work has appeared in Literal Latte, Clutch, and the Plastic Tower.

Lisa Colt is a retired high-school teacher who now devotes her time to writing, painting, sitting practice, and tending the worm farm in her kitchen. She lives in Dedham, Masachusetts.

Diana Stuart Greene is a writer living in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her commentaries have been broadcast on National Public Radio.

Eric Howard has never learned to play the saxophone and doesn’t tell his cat’s name to just anyone. Sometimes on weekends, he shoots a .44 Magnum at little iron chickens. He lives in Pasadena, California.

Kip Irwin is a teacher at a community college in Pennsylvania and a probation and prison counselor.

Cedar Koons is a poet living in Carrboro, North Carolina. Her poems in this issue are from an unpublished collection titled Major Arcana.

William Lychack is a writer and part-time editor at Milkweed Editions. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Lorenzo Wilson Milam was born at a very early age and is preparing to launch a new publication for aging hippies titled Geeze: A Magazine for Wrinkled Kids.

Michael Pollan is editor-at-large of Harper’s.

Theodore Roszak is a professor of history at California State University, Hayward, and the author of The Voice of the Earth (Touchstone). He lives in Berkeley, California.

Mary Jane Ryals teaches narrative technique and writing at Florida State University and lives on thirty-seven acres of woods in the middle of Tallahassee, Florida.