Issue 125 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

April 1986

Writers

Bira Almeida — better known as Mestre Acordeon — is one of the few officially and truly recognized masters of capoeira. [Ed: Capoeira is a Brazilian martial arts dance.] He graduated in capoeira from the “Centro de Cultural Fisica Regional” of Brazil in 1959. This center was the famous school of Mestre Bimba (1889-1974), the patron of capoeira and its most respected master. Almeida is the founder of the World Capoeira Association (1979) and the author of the book Capoeira: A Brazilian Art Form (North Atlantic Books, 1982). He is also the founder of the “Grupo Folclorico da Bahia” (1966) which won three international folkloric festivals. Additionally, Almeida is a folklore researcher, a playwright, a song writer, a musician, and a film actor specializing in Afro-Brazilian themes. He is a native of Brazil.

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Douglas Anderson is the editor of Bread and Butter Press in Denver, Colorado. Among his own books are The One Real Poem Is Life (Braziller) and My Sister Looks Like a Pear (Hart).

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Reid Champagne lives in upstate New York, where there are nine months of winter and three months of bad skiing.

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Karin Epperlein is a professional dancer, choreographer, actress, and teacher of t’ai chi ch’uan. A native of Munich, Germany, she has toured Europe, Israel, the United States, and South America in a number of productions. Recently, she has appeared in San Francisco in three productions of the International Theater. She is now working on video films and teaching t’ai chi ch’uan in Berkeley and San Francisco.

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Mark Greenside teaches creative writing and U.S. history at Vista College in Berkeley, California. He’s on the editorial board of Across the Generations, an “intergenerational literary journal,” and is active in union politics. He lives in Oakland, California.

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Richard Grossinger, co-editor of the anthology Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior and co-publisher of North Atlantic Books, is an anthropologist and the author of a number of prose books, most recently Planet Medicine: From Stone-Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing (Doubleday, 1980; Shambhala Publications, 1982), The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets (Sierra Club Books, 1981), and Embryogenesis (Avon Books, forthcoming, 1985).

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Lindy Hough, co-editor of the anthology Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior and co-publisher of North Atlantic Books, is an editor, writer, and poet. Her books include The Sun in Cancer (North Atlantic Books, 1975), Outlands and Inlands (Truck Press, 1978), and a book of essays in progress, Love and Power: The Transformation of the Shadow in the Nuclear Age.

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Ed Ingebretsen is a priest of the Society of Jesus. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he’s active in parish and adult education work. He’s also doing doctorate work in American literature, studying the religious context of Robert Frost’s poetry.

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Martin Inn is the founder and director of the Inner Research Institute School of T’ai Chi Ch’uan, which moved from Maui to San Francisco in 1972. He is a native of Hawaii who began studying the martial arts at the age of fourteen. After graduating from college he continued his studies in Seattle and Hawaii, then travelled to Taiwan where he worked with several well-known t’ai chi ch’uan practitioners. Upon his return he founded the Inner Research Institute in order to teach the short form of the yang style of t’ai chi ch’uan. Since then he has taught throughout the United States, in Australia, and the Republic of China. With Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Robert Amacker, and Susan Foe, he is the co-translator and editor of The Essence of T’ai Chi Ch’uan: The Literary Tradition (North Atlantic Books, 1979) and, with Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, the co-translator and editor of the forthcoming Thirteen Chapters on Push-Hands by Cheng Man-Ch’ing (North Atlantic Books, 1985).

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Sy Safransky is editor of THE SUN.

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Gary Snyder is a poet, linguist, lay ecologist, and practitioner of Rinzai Zen Buddhism, currently living in Nevada City, California. Some of his books of prose are: Earth House Hold (New Directions, 1969), The Old Ways (City Lights Books, 1977), and The Real Work (New Directions, 1980). A recent book of poetry, Axe Handles, was published by North Point Press in 1983.

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Brother David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk who lives in the Benedictine Grange in West Redding, Connecticut. He’s the author of Gratefulness: The Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart: The Art of Contemplative Living.

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Richard Strozzi-Heckler has a Ph.D. in psychology and a third-degree black belt in aikido. He is co-founder of the Lomi School in Mill Valley, California (1970). The Lomi School conducts workshops in mind/body awareness and trains therapists, educators, and health professionals through a blend of traditional eastern disciplines and modern psychological methods (including yoga, aikido, bodywork, gestalt, meditation, conscious movement, breath work, and communication skills). Heckler continues to teach at the Lomi School and is also in private practice. He is author of The Anatomy of Change (Shambhala Publications, 1984) and editor of a forthcoming aikido anthology from North Atlantic Books.

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Editor
Sy Safransky

Office Manager
Juli Duncan

Assistant to the Editor
Kate Parker

Editorial Assistants
Jan Bellard
Jeannie Doliner
Hope Janke

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