Contributors
August 2016
Writers
Fleur Adcock was born in New Zealand and has spent most of her life in England. She is the author of ten collections of poetry.
moreRobert Bly is a poet and translator. His books include Iron John: A Book about Men and The Light around the Body.
moreS.J. Dunning lives in Tacoma, Washington. She’s currently working on a memoir and a collection of poems.
moreTony Hoagland’s newest book of poetry, Application for Release from the Dream, was published by Graywolf Press in 2015. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and is working on a handbook about the internal combustion of poems.
moreRandall Jarrell was an American poet, critic, and essayist. He was struck by a car and killed in 1965.
moreWilliam Jordan is an entomologist and the author of A Cat Named Darwin and Divorce among the Gulls: An Uncommon Look at Human Nature.
moreSam Mowe’s writing regularly appears in Spirituality & Health and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He and his dog, Jules, a deaf pit-bull mix who dreams when she sleeps, split their time between the Hudson Valley and New York City.
moreNalungiaq was an Inuit storyteller whose words were documented by a Danish anthropologist in the early twentieth century.
morePablo Neruda was a Chilean poet and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
moreYehoshua November’s God’s Optimism was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in poetry. His second collection of poems, Two Worlds Exist, will be published in 2016. He lives in Teaneck, New Jersey, and teaches writing at Touro College and Rutgers University.
moreRainer Maria Rilke was raised in Prague by German-speaking parents. He was the author of several books of poetry and a collection of letters published after his death in 1926, titled Letters to a Young Poet.
moreCarl Safina lives in Long Island, New York, with his wife, Patricia, two dogs, some chickens, a couple of parrots, and a king snake.
moreDebbie Urbanski lives with her family in in Syracuse, New York. She fell in love with sci-fi at the age of six when her dad showed her Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
morePhotographers
Reneé Albright is a photographer who lives in Reno, Nevada.
moreAri Beser lives in Owings Mills, Maryland. He is working on a book about his grandfather, who was the only person to fly on both missions that dropped atomic bombs on Japan.
moreNiki Boon was trained as a physical therapist but became a photographer instead. She lives in Blenheim, New Zealand.
moreWilliam Carter’s fifth and most comprehensive book of photographs, Causes and Spirits: Photographs from Five Decades, was released by Steidl in 2011. He lives near San Francisco.
moreSarah Clawson lives in Crowley, Texas, where she trains horses, paints faces, and takes photographs.
moreHaley Earley believes in coffee, conversation, and God. She lives in Farmington, Minnesota.
moreGina Easley lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the staff photographer for Full Grown People, an online magazine about adulthood, “the other awkward age.”
morePeter Franco is a filmmaker and photographer who lives near Boston, Massachusetts. He recently shot a mixed-media project about industrial hog operations.
moreAkash Ganguly lives in Kolkata, India, where he’s a tutor, student photographer, and filmmaker.
moreJon Kral has published books of photographs about Mississippi steamboats, motorcycle races, Florida cowboys, and thoroughbred horses. He lives in Boone, North Carolina.
moreJames LePore lives on Florida’s Gulf Coast with his wife. His book Blood, Light, & Time combines short fiction with photographs.
moreJohn A. Lorenz left Vietnam with his family just days before the fall of Saigon in 1975. An actor, he lives in North Hollywood, California.
moreMaureen Maliha is the curator of the Trillium Gallery. She lives, hikes, and camps in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
moreEdward F. Palm is a retired Marine major turned academic. His images have appeared in Wanderlust and Word Catalyst. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.
moreJessica Rassette lives in Nebraska, where she is a stay-at-home mom of three very loud boys. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Huffington Post.
moreSergio Delle Vedove lives in Moruzzo, Italy. His work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Italy.
moreShrikar Venkatesh is an engineering student and photographer who lives in Bangalore, India.
moreLindsay Waelder grew up in New Hampshire but lives with her husband in Altenahr, Germany.
moreOn The Cover
David Millenheft enjoys being close to nature, but not too close. He lives in Ventura, California. His photo on this month’s cover is of a western lowland gorilla.
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