Contributors
November 2001
Writers
Steve Almond’s short-story collection My Life in Heavy Metal will be published by Grove Atlantic in early 2002. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
morePoe Ballantine is living in Nebraska, where the crickets are chirping and the macaroni and cheese with the French-cut green beans is very good.
moreJessica Anya Blau lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
moreDavid Budbill’s latest book of poems is Moment to Moment (Copper Canyon Press). He lives in Wolcott, Vermont.
moreMichelle Cacho-Negrete is a writer who lives in Maine, fifteen miles from the Bush family compound, which could mean nothing, or everything.
morePeter Coyote has acted in more than seventy feature films and television movies, and is the author of the memoir Sleeping Where I Fall (Counterpoint Press).
moreStephen Elliott is the Truman Capote Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University.
moreMartha Gies teaches creative writing at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
moreGillian Kendall is a writer living in San Martin, California.
moreRichard Lange’s short stories have appeared in Cutbank, Story, and Southern Review. He lives in Los Angeles.
moreDulcie Leimbach is a journalist and newspaper editor who lives in New York City.
moreAlison Luterman is a poet and essayist living in Oakland, California.
moreStephen J. Lyons writes from central Illinois, near the Sangamon River.
morePat MacEnulty is working on a novel titled Friend of the Devil. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
moreMichael Matkin is a freelance writer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
moreLorenzo W. Milam writes reviews and articles for RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities.
moreAlyce Miller is the author of a novel, Stopping for Green Lights (Doubleday). She divides her time between Bloomington, Indiana, and Sonoma County, California.
moreAl Neipris is a part-time writer and part-time poker player living in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
moreElissa Nelson recently moved to New York City, where she writes fiction and publishes a zine called Hope.
moreSusan Parker’s memoir Tumbling After will be published by Crown in the spring. She lives in Oakland, California.
moreLeslie Pietrzyk is author of the novel Pears on a Willow Tree (Avon/Bard). She lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
moreAndrea Potos’s first collection of poems, The Perfect Day, was published by Parallel Press.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreRuth L. Schwartz’s book of poems Edgewater is due out from Harper Collins in July. She teaches at California State University, Fresno.
moreRebecca Seiferle is a poet living in Farmington, New Mexico.
moreAlix Kates Shulman has written eleven books, most recently A Good Enough Daughter. She lives in New York City.
moreMark Smith-Soto teaches poetry and Spanish in Greensboro, North Carolina.
moreSparrow prefers carrot juice to American foreign policy.
moreMichael Ventura’s column “Letters at 3 A.M.” appears biweekly in the Austin Chronicle. He lives in Los Angeles.
moreLouanne Watley is a photographer and writer who lives with her dog, Sophie, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
moreGenie Zeiger is a New York City native who now lives in Shelburne, Massachusetts.
morePhotographers
Maureen Beitler is a photographer and nurse living in New York City.
moreMarshall Clarke is a freelance photographer living in Baltimore, Maryland.
morePhotographer Donna Clovis lives in New York City and is a web director for New York University.
moreDeanna Dikeman lives in Columbia, Missouri, but grew up in Iowa and often returns there to take photographs.
moreMarlene Finklea is an art teacher, photographer, and plant junky who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
moreKaren Landmann is a photographer and New York City social worker.
moreCraig J. Satterlee teaches photography at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming.
moreMark Townsend lives and takes photographs in Brooklyn, New York.
moreOn The Cover
Photographer Marco Castro was born and raised in Mexico and currently lives in New York City.
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