Contributors
October 2014
Writers
Anwar F. Accawi was raised in Magdaluna, a small village in Lebanon, and came to the U.S. in 1965 on a college scholarship. He is the author of the book The Boy from the Tower of the Moon. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, and recently took up the classical guitar. He says his “very kind wife” tells him he’s pretty good.
moreDorothy Day helped establish the Catholic Worker Movement, which advocates pacifism and solidarity with the poor. She was editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper from its founding in 1933 until her death in 1980 at the age of eighty-three.
moreBrian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine. A collection of his essays titled Children & Other Wild Animals will be published this month by Oregon State University Press.
moreSarah Einstein lives in Athens, Ohio, where she is a PhD student in creative nonfiction at Ohio University. Her essay in this issue is based on a chapter of her unpublished book Mot: A Memoir, which won the 2014 AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize.
moreElli Miles Kade is the pseudonym of an author who lives in the South. She says both her kids are way smarter than she could ever hope to be.
moreKatherine LaBelle is the pseudonym of an author who lives in New England. Her boyfriend is teaching her to rock climb.
moreMark Leviton lives in Nevada City, California. He is a volunteer broadcaster at community radio KVMR-FM and archives his podcasts, playlists, and writing at petsoundsmusic.com.
moreEric Nelson’s most recent poetry collection is The Twins. He lives with his wife in Statesboro, Georgia, where their backyard chickens keep him well supplied with eggs and inspiration.
moreK.C. Wolfe was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. His essays and stories have been featured in Gulf Coast, Joyland, and Swink. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he teaches creative writing at Eckerd College.
morePhotographers
Mark Berndt is a photographer who lives in Los Angeles. He is a former faculty member of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and currently teaches at the Julia Dean Photo Workshops.
moreWilliam Carter’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. He lives near San Francisco.
moreJ. Moses Ceaser is a photographer and community activist who plays lots of soccer, watches too much bad TV, and runs a cooking group called Frugal Foodies. He lives in Berkeley, California.
moreFrank Lavelle has self-published twenty books of his photographs, most recently Eat the Baby, about women’s roller derby. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his two sons and his wife, who is a roller-derby competitor.
moreFiona Lenz has lived in Los Angeles for her whole life, but she has just moved across the country to attend Syracuse University in New York as a photography major. Her photograph on page 4 of this issue is her first publication.
moreDaniel Limmer is a photographer and author living in Kennebunk, Maine. He has been a paramedic for thirty-two years and has written more than a dozen textbooks for emergency medical personnel.
moreAbraham Menashe was born in Egypt and lives in New York City. He has published thirteen books, including The Face of Prayer, and is a conscientious objector who worked with the peace movement during the Vietnam War.
moreKat Moser’s clothing store for women, Nouvelle Eve, which she opened in 1973, has helped her to appreciate the diversity and beauty of the female form, a frequent subject of her photography. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska.
moreByron Motley is a Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter, photographer, filmmaker, and lecturer. His passions are (in no particular order): Cuba, Negro League baseball history, his dogs, and the voice of Dionne Warwick.
moreGina Nero was born in Melbourne, Australia, and lives and works in Los Angeles.
moreMelissa Shook is a photographer and writer who lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Her subjects have included homelessness, aging, and the lives of migrant workers at Suffolk Downs, a racetrack in East Boston. If she weren’t a photographer, she says, she would be a thoroughbred trainer.
moreLinda Smogor lives in Homer, Alaska. Her photograph on page 18 of this issue was taken while she walked with her boyfriend in a snowstorm.
moreCynthia Wood is a documentary and fine-art photographer living in San Francisco. She also sings in a secular community choir. A long time ago, in her twenties, she lived in Paris, where a piece of her heart still resides.
moreOn The Cover
Sandy Carter is a freelance photographer based in Bellingham, Washington. Her documentary photographs appear in the book Women in Medicine: A Celebration of Their Work. She says the hands on this month’s cover belong to an Ecuadorian woman she met in Quito in February 2013.
moreEditor and Publisher
Sy Safransky
Managing Editor
Carol Ann Fitzgerald
Senior Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Robert Graham
Digital-Media Director
David Mahaffey
Manuscript Editor
Colleen Donfield
Assistant Editor
Luc Saunders
Editorial Associate
& Photo Editor
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
Writing Retreats
Angela Winter
Proofreading
Erica Berkeley
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