Contributors
December 1999
Writers
Poe Ballantine is a vigorous little bowlegged vaquero with a hairy chest and a mustache five feet wide. He lives in Mexico and has a collection of short stories forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin.
moreChris Bursk is a decision-making counselor for inmates and parolees and teaches at Bucks Community College. He lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania.
moreDerrick Jensen lives in Crescent City, California, where he teaches creative writing at a maximum-security prison.
moreMichael B. Loggins works at Creativity Explored, an arts center in San Francisco’s Mission District. His writing and drawings are currently featured in that city’s “Market Street Art in Transit” public-art series.
morePeter Makuck teaches at East Carolina University, where he has edited Tar River Poetry for the past twenty years. He is the author of a collection of short stories, Breaking and Entering (University of Illinois Press), and several books of poetry, the most recent being Against the Distance (BOA Editions, Ltd.). He lives in Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreSybil Smith is a poet and writer living in Norwich, Vermont. She has a short story forthcoming in U.S. Catholic.
moreMichael Ventura is an essayist and novelist living in Los Angeles. His column “Letters at 3 A.M.” appears biweekly in the Austin Chronicle.
moreOn The Cover
Ethan Hubbard’s photographs in this issue are from his book The Face of a Man (Pilgrim Press). He lives in Chelsea, Vermont.
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
Debra Eidson
Douglas Gibson
Gillian Kendall
Proofreader
Lynda Malone
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