Contributors
April 2017
Writers
Greg Ames is the author of the novel Buffalo Lockjaw. He splits his time between Brooklyn and Hamilton, New York, where he is an assistant professor at Colgate University.
moreMargaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and essays, including The Handmaid’s Tale. She lives in Canada.
moreRicky Cantor was born, raised, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
moreLucille Clifton was the author of thirteen poetry collections and numerous children’s books. She died in 2010 at the age of seventy-three.
moreLynn Davis is a writer who lives in North Carolina. “The Diver” is her first published poem, unless you count the one she wrote in sixth grade that everyone teased her about.
moreTracy Frisch is a homesteader, freelance journalist, and local troublemaker. She grows vegetables on a hundred-acre farm in upstate New York.
moreStanley Kunitz was a poet, editor, and translator. His poetry collection Selected Poems: 1928–1958 won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 2006 at the age of one hundred.
moreEmma Lazarus was the author of a novel, a play, and numerous poetry collections. She died in 1887 at the age of thirty-eight.
moreKelly Ann Malone lives in Canyon Country, California. Her writing has appeared in Free Verse, Offcourse, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly.
moreMegan Denton Ray is enrolled in the MFA program at Purdue University and has been published in Cimarron Review, Ruminate, and Otis Nebula. She has an identical twin sister and a tiny birthmark in the shape of a clover.
moreDavid Rutschman is a Soto Zen priest and hospice grief counselor. His work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Waxwing, and Witness. His story in this issue is from his forthcoming first collection. He lives in California with his wife and two young children.
moreSparrow lives in Phoenicia, New York. One of his hobbies is making lima-bean soup for his ninety-eight-year-old father. His latest book is How to Survive the Coming Collapse of Civilization (And Other Helpful Hints).
moreDebbie Urbanski is a writer who lives in central New York. She is obsessed with mountains, vegetarian cookbooks, and the herd of stink bugs that wanders around her home.
moreDavid Zoby splits his time between Casper, Wyoming, and Homer, Alaska. His writing has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Fourth Genre, and The Missouri Review. A lifelong waterfowl hunter and fly fisherman, he has a fishing blog at davezoby.com.
morePhotographers
Danielle Austen is a kayaker, scuba diver, and terrible skier. She lives in Hillsborough, New Jersey.
moreEdwin Barkdoll is a veterinarian who lives in Maine with his wife, three dogs, and a cat.
moreLarry Blackwood lives in Bozeman, Montana. His photos have appeared in LensWork, Black & White, and Color. Now a volunteer firefighter, he was a statistician for thirty years.
moreWilliam Carter’s fifth and most comprehensive book of photographs, Causes and Spirits, was published by Steidl in 2011. He lives in San Mateo, California.
moreAshley Driggers is a photographer who lives in Richmond, Kentucky.
moreKaressa Ellis lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is a mother of three who works as a medical assistant in an OB/GYN clinic.
moreMichael Galinsky is a filmmaker, photographer, and musician living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
moreRobert Graham is the art director at The Sun.
moreJody Kennedy’s writing and photography have appeared in The Georgia Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and Peacock Journal. A native of the upper Midwest, she now lives in France.
moreJohnny Kerr lives in Youngtown, Arizona, where he is a high-school teacher. His photos have been published in Flash & Fuse and Trang Den.
moreDawn McDermott lives in Forestdale, Massachusetts, where she recently completed certification to become a yoga instructor.
moreLaurie Minor’s photo essays have appeared in Photo Life, Photo Digest, and Cat Fancy. She lives in Canada with her husband and two golden retrievers.
moreChase Newton is a photography student who smokes too many cigarettes. She lives in San Francisco, California.
moreKhunya Pan is a photographer living in Austin, Texas.
moreTomás Samael is a filmmaker who lives in Santiago, Chile.
moreJ. Eliza Wall lives in Warminster, Pennsylvania, where she volunteers at museums because she loves art.
moreOn The Cover
Goran Jovic is a freelance photographer who lives in Imotski, Croatia. He took this month’s cover photograph, of a young boy resting against a boat, on Nungwi Beach in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
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
Editorial Assistant
Derek Askey
Proofreader
Seth Mirsky
Associate Publisher
Krista Bremer
Business Manager
Rob Bowers
Circulation & Events
Manager
Molly House
Office Manager
Holly McKinney
With Help From
Manuscript Reading
Dave Hart
Paula Jolin
Gillian Kendall
Rebecca Lanning
Lauren Rose
Hank Stephenson
Proofreading
Erica Berkeley