Contributors
November 1998
Writers
Poe Ballantine has a short-story collection forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin. He lives in Hays, Kansas.
moreMark Brazaitis is the author of The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala (University of Iowa Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.
moreRobert P. Cooke, who worked for many years as a welder, says that writing poetry is like “striking an arc across the metal face of a pipe — bright, brilliant, and intense.” He lives in Highland, Indiana.
moreKip Knott lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and is the author of a book of poems, The Weight of Smoke (Bottom Dog Press).
moreAlison Luterman has been writing poems behind her own back lately. She lives in Oakland, California.
moreLee Martin lives in Texas but does not own a pickup truck, a gun, or cowboy boots. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas and edits the American Literary Review.
moreAl Neipris recently retired from a career as a plastics broker and now has time to write, play poker, and take evening college courses, preferably in subjects with no practical application. His essay in this issue is his first published work. He lives in Foxboro, Massachusetts.
moreWayne Scott’s work has appeared in Family Therapy Networker, Common Boundary, and Men on Men 6: Best New Gay Fiction (Plume). He recently became a stay-at-home dad in Portland, Oregon.
moreSparrow lives in Bushnellsville, New York, at the foot of Mount Tampayet. He is studying paleontology and Hasidism.
moreMonica Trasandes was born in Uruguay, grew up in southern California, and now lives in Los Angeles. She works as a magazine editor, but is striving with all her might to become a full-time writer.
moreGene Zeiger writes essays and poems and leads writing workshops in Shelburne, Massachusetts. She defies the stereotype of the lonely, reclusive author by doing most of her writing in the company of others.
moreOn The Cover
Clemens Kalischer is an international freelance photographer living in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian.
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