Contributors
November 1986
Writers
Lewis Downey is a photographer who lives in Carrboro, North Carolina. He’s currently organizing a quarterly magazine for fine arts photography.
moreDavid Grant first appeared in The Sun in 1979 with “Peace Nigger’s Long March” (Issue 46), an account of a two-week journey he made in silence, on foot, carrying a petition for disarmament.
moreThich Nhat Hanh is a sixty-year-old Vietnamese poet and Zen Buddhist monk.
moreRed Hawk is the author of Journey of the Medicine Man (August House). He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas where he’s working on a new book, The Way Of Power.
moreDuncan Moran lives “within sight of the big lake, Michigan, two islands, North and South Manitou, and a dog and two cats. I make a living building houses and fill my life with writing, painting and family, never with a sense of order.”
morePeggy Payne has published stories in Ms., Cosmopolitan, McCall’s, The New York Times, and several literary magazines. She writes in an office in Raleigh, North Carolina and lives in Chatham County with her husband Bob Dick.
moreMarc Polonsky lives in Berkeley, California. He started out on the Great Peace March last spring with several thousand other anti-war activists.
moreJim Ralston is a writer who lives in Petersburg, West Virginia.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreJoseph Daniel Sobol lives in Shelby, North Carolina.
moreOn The Cover

John Rosenthal is a photographer and a writer who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Office Manager
Catherine Dumas
Assistant to the Editor
Jan Bellard
Editorial Assistants
Susan Davis
Janne Groner
Hope Janke
Contributing Editor
Juli Duncan
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