Contributors

Michelle Cacho-Negrete is “in recovery” from her former career as a full-time therapist and is now attending the MFA program at Vermont College. She often writes in her head while on the move — usually running, walking, or biking — and transfers her work to paper later. She has, however, lost some great work to traffic jams. Her writing has appeared in the Wisconsin Review, Bottomfish, and Mystery Time. She lives in Wells, Maine.

Derrick Jensen is the author of A Language Older Than Words (Context Books). He lives in Crescent City, California.

Heather King is a Los Angeles writer whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, the Utne Reader, House Beautiful, and several literary quarterlies.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Ruth L. Schwartz is a poet living in Fresno, California.

Jasmine Skye types her romantic musings with one hand and with the other plays a fast-paced game of catch with her dog, who is also her editor and critic. She lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Sallie Tisdale is the author of five books, including Talk Dirty to Me (Anchor). A contributing editor at Harper’s, she has published numerous articles in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Esquire, Salon, and Vogue. She lives in Portland, Oregon.