Issue 275 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

November 1998

Writers

Poe Ballantine has a short-story collection forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin. He lives in Hays, Kansas.

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Mark Brazaitis is the author of The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala (University of Iowa Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Robert 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.

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Kip Knott lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and is the author of a book of poems, The Weight of Smoke (Bottom Dog Press).

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Alison Luterman has been writing poems behind her own back lately. She lives in Oakland, California.

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Lee 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.

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Al 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.

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Wayne 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.

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Sparrow lives in Bushnellsville, New York, at the foot of Mount Tampayet. He is studying paleontology and Hasidism.

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Monica 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.

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Gene 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.

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On 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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Editor
Sy Safransky

Business Manager
Ilona Page

Assistant Editor
Andrew W. Snee

Art Director
Julia L. Burke

Copy Editor
Seth Mirsky

Editorial Office Assistant
Rachel J. Elliott

Office Clerk
Lynda Malone

Readers
Colleen Donfield
Douglas Gibson
Gillian Kendall
Jessica Ruegg

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