Contributors

Eric Anderson lives in Elyria, Ohio, with his wife, two kids, one dog, three cats, one and a half fish (don’t ask), and a finch. His novella Isn’t That Just Like You? was recently published by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center.

Arnie Cooper has now had thirteen interviews published in The Sun. He’s not worried about that being an unlucky number; born in 1959, a Chinese Year of the Pig, he believes 2007, another “pig” year, will be lucky for him.

Michelle Dussim is the pseudonym of a writer who has just completed her master’s degree in international affairs at the New School. She lives in New York City.

J.R. Helton lives in San Antonio, Texas, and is the author of Below the Line (Last Gasp Books), a memoir about his experiences as a set painter on more than twenty films. His friend R. Crumb, the legendary comic-book artist, did the cover art for the book.

Heather King’s latest book, PULSE: Heart of Jesus, A Conversion, is forthcoming from Viking. She is a commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered and lives in Los Angeles.

Bruce E. Mitchell has worked in a diesel garage, in a brick factory, and in France helping to rebuild medieval castles. But he is most proud of having taught more than four thousand students during thirty-two years as a high-school English teacher. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.

Al Neipris is writing a book on golf. “It’s about my struggle,” he says, “to become a semirespectable golfer despite an almost complete lack of athletic ability and a temperament utterly unsuited to the game.” He lives in Venice, Florida.

Richard Newman’s most recent poetry collection is Borrowed Towns (Word Press). He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spends his time editing River Styx magazine, playing basketball, and drinking Miller High Life at his neighborhood pub, the Cat’s Meow.

Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

Ellen Santasiero’s essays and interviews have appeared in Northwest Review, Marlboro Review, and High Desert Journal. She lives in Bend, Oregon.

Dustin Beall Smith worked until his midfifties as a key grip in the movie business (“an industry,” he says, “that eats its young and discards its elders”). He now teaches at Gettysburg College, and his essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, and the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Rita Bernstein is a photographer and former civil-rights lawyer. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

William Carter is the author of four books of photography. He lives in Los Altos Hills, California, with his wife, whom he first met in 1965 (she denies this) and re-met twenty years later.

Marco Castro was born and raised in Mexico City and now lives in New York City, where he’s a photographer for the Mexican consulate. He is working on a project documenting the lives of immigrants and their assimilation into American society.

Marshall Clarke is a photographer who runs Youthlight, a children’s photography and media-literacy project in Baltimore. He lives in Butler, Maryland.

Sylvia De Swaan is a photographer whose work explores personal history, memory, and war. She lives in Utica, New York.

Gloria Baker Feinstein lives in Kansas City, Missouri, and is the author of two books of photographs: Convergence and Among the Ashes (both Yellow Bird Press).

Anders Goldfarb is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Carlos Gustavo is a photographer who lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Judith Keenan has been taking photographs since her father gave her a Brownie box camera in the 1950s. She lives in Vallejo, California.

Doug McMains is a photographer and cinematographer who lives in Herman, Nebraska. Images from his travels to six continents are represented by Getty Images.

John Milisenda lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has been working on a photography project about his family for forty years. His images have appeared in the New York Times and Smithsonian.

Craig J. Satterlee teaches photography at Northwest College. He lives in Powell, Wyoming.

Jennifer Warburg is a freelance photographer and political activist living in Durham, North Carolina.