Contributors
April 1987
Writers
Karen Baum is a poet and musician who lives in the North Carolina countryside.
moreAdam Fisher is a writer and house painter who lives in New York City.
moreCedar Koons lives on a farm near Timberlake, North Carolina. She writes poetry, fiction, and essays, and teaches creative writing at Duke University’s Institute for Learning in Retirement.
morePamela Altfeld Malone is a writer who lives in Leonia, New Jersey. She’s recently had a short story in Chelsea, a translation from Hebrew in Stories, and poetry in Bellowing Ark.
moreRichard Meisler writes and teaches in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He’s the author of Trying Freedom: The Case for Liberating Education (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich).
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreBrother David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk. He’s the author of Gratefulness: The Heart of Prayer and A Listening Heart: The Art of Contemplative Living. He lives in Big Sur, California.
moreSharyn Wolf is a poet and jazz vocalist who lives in New York City.
moreOn The Cover

Lewis Downey is a photographer who lives in Carrboro, North Carolina.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Managing Editor
Catherine Dumas
Assistant To The Editor
Samuel W. Gaines
Copy Editor
Jan Bellard
Editorial Assistants
Susan Davis
Janne Groner
Hope Janke
Contributing Editor
Juli Duncan
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