Contributors
June 1999
Writers
Alan Craig is the pseudonym of a writer who lives in Foxboro, Massachusetts, with three cats, two dogs, and one woman. He works as a consultant and in his spare time writes, studies Greek, plays poker, and watches a lot of television.
moreRenee Lertzman is a writer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in Terra Nova and Speak.
moreLou Lipsitz is a poet and therapist living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
moreStephen J. Lyons is the best-known unknown writer in eastern Washington. He recently learned that, no matter how hard he tries, he can no longer leap up and touch a basketball rim.
moreMarc Petersen is a poet living in Santa Clara, California. He and his father used to work on cars together a lot. “We weren’t hobbyists, though,” he says. “We were broke.” Last year, Black Dirt Press published his chapbook This Is My Brother Talking.
moreLaura Pritchett grew up on a ranch in northern Colorado. She now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she works as an editor and freelance writer. Her story in this issue is her first published work of fiction.
moreJohn Rosenthal is a photographer and writer living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His most recent book of photographs is Regarding Manhattan (Sunapee Editions).
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreOn The Cover
Gary Walts lives in Watertown, New York, about twenty-five miles from the Canadian border. He is a staff photographer for a Syracuse newspaper and spends his spare time shooting self-assigned documentary projects. His work is available through the Image Works in Woodstock, New York.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Business Manager
Ilona Page
Assistant Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Julie Burke
Copy Editor
Seth Mirsky
Editorial Office Assistant
Rachel J. Elliott
Administrative Assistant
Erica Berkeley
Readers
Colleen Donfield
Douglas Gibson
Gillian Kendall
Jessica Ruegg
Proofreader
Lynda Malone
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