Contributors
August 1997
Writers
Anwar F. Accawi was raised in the mountains of southern Lebanon. He began writing to teach his children about the village where he grew up. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee.
morePoe Ballantine lives in a motel and works at a radio-antenna factory in Hays, Kansas.
moreScott London hosts Insight & Outlook, a syndicated public-radio program. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
moreJosip Novakovich lives in Blue Creek, Ohio, and teaches at the University of Cincinnati. His stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, DoubleTake, Antaeus, and two Pushcart anthologies.
moreLee Rossi’s work has appeared in Poetry East, OntheBus, and the Chelsea Review. He lives in Los Angeles.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreAlison Seevak’s work has recently appeared in San Francisco Focus and The Party Train: A Collection of North American Poetry (New Rivers Press). She lives in Albany, California.
moreOn The Cover

John Rosenthal’s photographs have been exhibited throughout North Carolina and the Southeast. He is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio, and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Business Manager
Ilona Page
Assistant Editor
Andrew W. Snee
Production Manager
Julia L. Burke
Copy Editor
Seth Mirsky
Readers
Colleen Donfield
Susannah J. Felts
Ann Humphreys
Bob Rehak
Editorial Office Assistant
Anne Brashear
Office Clerk
Lynda Malone
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