Writers

Dan Leach’s most recent book is the short-story collection Dead Mediums. He lives in South Carolina and is working on a series of essays about trash.

more

David Mahaffey, an associate editor at The Sun, was once asked to leave a volunteer role for making a haunted house too scary.

more

Donovan McAbee used to live in a sixteenth-century castle in Scotland. Unfortunately it was adjacent to an air-force base where pilots trained for night missions. He now lives in Nashville, Tennessee, a sufficient distance from any airport.

more

Tom McAllister’s most recent novel is How to Be Safe. He teaches at Temple University and lives in New Jersey, where he is close personal friends with the dogs in his neighborhood.

more

John Paul Scotto is writing a memoir about hiding his neurodivergence, grieving a flawed friend, and forgiving himself. He encourages you to contact him at scotto.writing@gmail.com.

more

Leona Sevick’s first full-length book of poems is Lion Brothers. She is provost and professor of English at Bridgewater College in Virginia, where she teaches Asian American literature and deploys the contraction y’all unconvincingly.

more

Jen Silverman is the author of the story collection The Island Dwellers and the novels We Play Ourselves and There's Going to Be Trouble, which is forthcoming from Random house in April 2024. Jen also writes for the theater and TV and draws nihilistic pandas on Instagram: @this_panda_is_sad.

more

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the memoir Wild. Her essays have appeared in the Best American Essays anthology as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post Magazine. She has made two podcasts: Dear Sugars, with Steve Almond, and Sugar Calling. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

more

Photographers

Gina Easley spends her Saturday mornings listening to music and tending to her many houseplants. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

more

Ethan Hubbard has traveled as a documentary photographer for more than forty years and has published fourteen books. He lives in Vermont.

more

David Inscho lives in Bellingham, Washington. His photographs have appeared in Backpacker and Travel Oregon, but his most enduring achievement is the sycamore tree he planted in his front yard twenty-three years ago.

more

Natalie Leimkuhler’s next birthday will be her ninetieth. She has been photographing since she was thirteen years old and loves looking back at a lifetime of work. She lives in California.

more

Susan Lirakis lives in New Hampshire. Her most recent project is making portraits of mothers and daughters she previously photographed in the 1980s.

more

Marlon Webster Paine is pursuing a graduate degree in history at the University of South Carolina. He spends his free time hiking, surfing, and studying mysticism.

more

Tony Schanuel is a photographer, digital artist, and painter from Missouri. His work has been exhibited at the Florence Biennale and accepted into the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

more

Elizabeth Ungerleider is a psychotherapist and photographer. For more than ten years she has been creating a daily visual diary of her life in Vermont.

more

Marc Ward is an artist and photographer who makes his home on the sloped land of east Tennessee with his wife, Kathy.

more

Lisa Whiteman is happiest when taking photos of people, whether they’re senior citizens on roller skates, young boys in a boxing gym in Cuba, or her heavily photographed (and patient) children. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

more

Harry Wilson is a retired professor of art and a somewhat-overlooked, intrepid photographer who lives in Nevada. His photos will be on exhibit at the Sierra Arts Gallery in Reno in December.

more

On The Cover

Reuben Rios took this month’s cover image at a Día de los Muertos celebration in Chicago, where he lives. The model, his niece Isabel, is dressed as La Catrina. She did her own makeup. You can follow Rios on Instagram: @organicindustrial.

more

Staff

Editor and Founder
Sy Safransky

Senior Editor
Andrew Snee

Art Director
Robert Graham

Associate Editors
Derek Askey
Finn Cohen
Nancy Holochwost
David Mahaffey

Editorial Associate
& Photo Editor

Rachel J. Elliott

Assistant Editor
Staci Kleinmaier

Manuscript Reader
Hank Stephenson

Proofreader
Seth Mirsky

Outreach Coordinator
Anna Gazmarian


Publisher
Rob Bowers

Associate Publisher
Holly McKinney

Director of Development
& Outreach

Molly House

Reader Services Manager
Chrystal Pitt

Reader Services
Specialists

Shani Armstrong
Andrew Gleason

With Help From
Manuscript Reading
Dave Hart
Paula Jolin

Proofreading
Erica Berkeley
Jill Cooper

Social Media
Kelley Farris