Contributors
November 2010
Writers
Poe Ballantine’s latest book is 501 Minutes to Christ (Hawthorne Books). He says he recently drove down the street where he grew up, expecting a flood of memories and emotions. Instead he went right past his old house, not even recognizing the ghost that sat under the laurel tree. He lives in Chadron, Nebraska.
moreDavid Barsamian lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is the founder and director of Alternative Radio (www.alternativeradio.org). His books include What We Say Goes, coauthored with Noam Chomsky (Metropolitan), and Original Zinn, coauthored with Howard Zinn (Harper Perennial).
moreJohn Frank’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Louisville Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Paddlefish. He is at work on a collection of essays titled Gone Feral, in which he hopes to explain why, while he was growing up, his family’s pets were always attacking people. He lives in Ohio.
moreW.S. Merwin has written more than thirty books of poetry, translation, and prose. A Buddhist and environmentalist, he often addresses humankind’s separation from nature in his work. His writing has received two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, and in 2010, at the age of eighty-two, Merwin was appointed the Library of Congress’s Poet Laureate. Since the late 1970s he has lived in Hawaii on a former pineapple plantation that he has restored to its original rain-forest state.
moreLinda McCullough Moore lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she spends every waking moment attempting to find a good home for her latest collection of stories.
moreKevin C. Powers served in Iraq with the U.S. Army. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the New Orleans Review, Poetry, and the New York Quarterly. He is pursuing an MFA in poetry at the University of Texas at Austin. When not thinking about poetry or Italy (where he hopes to live someday) he can be found riding his Royal Enfield motorcycle through the Texas hill country.
moreSy Safransky is editor and publisher of The Sun.
moreFaith Shearin is the author of two books of poetry: The Owl Question (Utah State University Press) and The Empty House (WordTech Communications). Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Salamander, and the North American Review, and several of her poems have been read aloud by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. She lives with her husband and daughter in Baltimore, Maryland.
moreSparrow lives in an experimental suburban commune in Teaneck, New Jersey. He blogs, but he does not Tweet. Look for his writing on the collective blog We Who Are about to Die (www.wewhoareabouttodie.com).
moreLee Strickland’s fiction has been published in StoryQuarterly, the Gettysburg Review, and Other Voices. Her piece in this issue is her first published personal essay and is part of a memoir in progress, for which she is seeking an agent. She teaches writing at StoryStudio Chicago and North Park University and lives in Chicago with her husband and two dogs. On weekends they escape the city to their hundred-year-old farmhouse in Elizabeth, Illinois, where they go tubing down the Apple River.
morePhotographers
James Carroll’s first love was baseball. He has been pursuing his second love — photography — for more than forty years. He lives in New York City.
moreMartin Fishman died in February at the age of seventy-two. His photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Coney Island in New York.
moreBrenda Flynn is a photographer, artist, and illustrator living in Ormond Beach, Florida. She dreams of winning the lottery and traveling to Tahiti.
moreJesse Gresham graduated in 2009 with a degree in design from Louisiana Tech University. He lives in West Monroe, Louisiana.
moreSharon Lee Hart lives and teaches photography in Nashville, Tennessee. She is working on a project about farm-animal sanctuaries.
moreJulia McHugh is the mother of two daughters and has a twin sister on the East Coast. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.
moreKen Royce has wrapped up two careers — one in the navy and one in higher education — and now devotes most of his time to photography. He once swam in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.
moreWendy Stone lives in Putnam, Connecticut.
moreMike Voss has worked as a photographer for more than thirty years. He lives in Peotone, Illinois, with his wife, his youngest daughter, and three dogs who are clearly running the household.
moreRobert Zverina has maintained an online photo journal continuously since 1997, where he posts a “picture of the day” and microdocumentaries of thirty seconds or less. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
moreOn The Cover
Lindley Rust graduated from Louisiana Tech University last spring with a degree in photography and is currently living in Jackson, Wyoming. She took this month’s cover photograph of her college roommate as they were having a chat in their living room, discussing their plans for the evening.
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
Editorial Associates
Erica Berkeley
Rachel J. Elliott
Luc Saunders
Proofreader
Seth Mirsky
Associate Publisher
Krista Bremer
Director of Finance
Becky Gee
Circulation Assistant
Molly Herboth
Administrative Assistant
Holly McKinney
With Help From
Manuscript Reading
Marianne Erhardt
Dave Hart
Paula Jolin
Gillian Kendall
Proofreading
Lauren Holder Raab
Writing Retreats
Angela Winter