Contributors
January 2013
Writers
Ally Acker is an author and filmmaker who lives in Roslyn Heights, New York. She has written three collections of poems: Surviving Desire, Waiting for the Beloved, and Some Help from the Dead.
moreChristiane Buuck lives in Columbus, Ohio, and though she is not a fan of Buckeye football, she does teach English to some of the football players at the Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in Seneca Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Rock & Sling. Her story in this issue is from a novel in progress.
morePatricia Foster met her husband of thirty-two years in Venice, California. At the time she thought him a quiet, gentle man, only to learn later that he’d had the flu. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the memoir All the Lost Girls and a book of essays called Just beneath My Skin.
moreLeslee Goodman lives with her husband, mother, dogs, and chickens in Ojai, California. She studies shamanism with the spiritual leader of the Methow tribe and is working with him on a documentary film called Spirit of the Salmon.
moreSteve Kowit teaches poetry workshops in San Diego and is the author of a guidebook for poets titled In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop. His latest collection of poems is The First Noble Truth.
moreHeather Kirn Lanier is the author of Teaching in the Terrordome: Two Years in West Baltimore with Teach for America and the poetry chapbook The Story You Tell Yourself. After a decade of moving — from Maryland to Japan to Ohio to California and back to Ohio again — she and her family have settled in Bennington, Vermont, where they live among unpacked boxes. She blogs about her special-needs daughter at starinhereye.wordpress.com.
moreMary Jane Nealon is a registered nurse who works at a community health center in Missoula, Montana, and her most recent book is a memoir titled Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse’s Life. She is the proud owner of her father’s silk World War II escape map, which guided him from Germany to Belgium and is now guiding her through a writing project.
moreLee Rossi lives in San Carlos, California. His poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, Escape Into Life, and Harvard Review Online, and he is an interviewer and reviewer for the online journal Pedestal. He says his assets consist solely of used clothing and some rapidly depreciating poems; he is still waiting for his government bailout.
moreSy Safransky is editor and publisher of The Sun.
moreRuth L. Schwartz lives in the country outside of Cazadero, California — population 354. Her most recent book is Soul on Earth: A Guide to Living and Loving Your Human Life.
moreSamuel L. Clemens, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Born in 1835, he was raised in Missouri and worked in his early twenties as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain died of a heart attack in 1910.
morePhotographers
Polly Chandler’s photographs have been published in B&W, View Camera, and Photo District News. She lives in Austin, Texas.
moreRachel J. Elliott is half Swedish, yet she shuns cold weather, melancholy, and fish. She is an editorial associate at The Sun and lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband and their eleven-year-old daughter.
moreReinhard Gorn is a former social worker who has made his living as a photographer since 1982. He lives in Falkensee, Germany.
moreClemens Kalischer was born in Bavaria, Germany, and lives in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where he runs the Image Gallery. He has been taking photographs for more than sixty years, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Orion, and Ploughshares.
moreMichelle Masson is a nurse who lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
moreGary Matson lives in Sunnyside, New York, and his photographs have been shown at the Queens Museum of Art.
moreFawn Potash is an artist, photographer, and teacher who lives in Catskill, New York. Her work has been published in Harper’s, Mirabella, and Chronogram.
moreLarry Roggenkamp and his wife are both photojournalists and live in Parkville, Missouri.
moreRaphael Shevelev was born in South Africa and lives in El Cerrito, California. His photographs and articles have been published in Contemporary Photography, LensWork, and Photo Life, and he is the author of a book about the Holocaust called Liberating the Ghosts.
moreHarry Wilson’s work has appeared in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Fourteen Hills, and Alligator Juniper. He lives in Bakersfield, California.
moreOn The Cover
John Rosenthal lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and his essays and photographs have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Huffington Post, and New York magazine. The boy in this month’s cover photograph is his son John Keats. Rosenthal took the picture in 1983, on one of their frequent visits to Valle Crucis, North Carolina.
moreEditor and Publisher
Sy Safransky
Managing Editor
Tim McKee
Senior Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Robert Graham
Digital-Media Director
David Mahaffey
Manuscript Editor
Colleen Donfield
Assistant Editor
Luc Saunders
Editorial Associates
Erica Berkeley
Rachel J. Elliott
Proofreader
Seth Mirsky
Associate Publisher
Krista Bremer
Director Of Finance
Becky Gee
Circulation Manager
Molly Herboth
Office Manager
Holly McKinney
With Help From
Manuscript Reading
Dave Hart
Paula Jolin
Gillian Kendall
Proofreading
Lauren Holder Raab
Writing Retreats
Angela Winter
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