Issue 316 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

April 2002

Writers

Jessica Anya Blau lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband and her two daughters. She is currently teaching at Johns Hopkins University. Her short fiction has previously appeared in The Sun and other magazines.

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Poet Chris Bursk lives in Langhorne Manor, Pennsylvania, where he works as a decision-making counselor for inmates and parolees and teaches at Bucks County Community College.

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Bird Cupps has finished rebuilding the house of William Way and moved home to Wisconsin. She was last seen drooling over the compound miter saws at Lowe’s.

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Philip Harnden lives on Maple Ridge near the Oswegatchie River in northern New York State. He is a poet, gardener, and author of Letting That Go, Keeping This: The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Fritz Eichenberg (Pendle Hill).

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Stuart Kestenbaum lives in Deer Isle, Maine. He is the author of the poetry collection Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press). His poem in this issue is from a completed manuscript titled House of Thanksgiving.

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Renee Lertzman moved to Brooklyn, New York, last October to study environmental psychology. Her writing has appeared in The Sun, Speak magazine, Terra Nova, Parabola, and Orion Afield.

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Michael McColly is a teacher of ESL and creative writing in Chicago. For the past year, he has been interviewing people living and working with HIV/AIDS, particularly activists and doctors, both in Asia and in Chicago neighborhoods. He is currently traveling in West Africa and looking for a publisher for a travel narrative about his trips to various countries affected by HIV/AIDS. About his essay in this issue, he writes, “I wrote this piece for my father, who made his career not in baseball, but as a coach and a teacher. He has allowed me to share such a personal story about us because he hopes that it may inspire other parents and children to make that trip down the long road of forgiveness.”

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Carolyn Miller is a freelance book editor and writer living in San Francisco on the Hyde Street cable-car line. She has published poems in the Georgia Review and Shenandoah, among other magazines. A limited letterpress book of her poems, Constant Lover, was published last year by Protean Press. After Cocteau, a second collection, is due out this year from Sixteen Rivers Press.

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D. Patrick Miller, who lives in Berkeley, California, is a longtime contributor to The Sun who remembers the days before the slick paper. He is an author, editor, and independent publisher whose most recent book is Love after Life, a novel. Since 1998 he has also been publishing on the Internet, chiefly on his website www.fearlessbooks.com, where he recently resurrected his 1980s print newsletter Presumptions: A Letter at Large in digital form.

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Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

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Photographers

Roy Arenella lives in New York City.

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James Carroll lives in New York City.

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William Carter lives in Los Altos Hills, California.

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Mary Jane Fay lives in Helena, Montana.

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Susie Fitzhugh lives in Seattle, Washington.

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Michael Galinsky lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Richard Heintze lives in Menlo Park, California.

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Janine Johnson lives in Hibbing, Minnesota.

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Jean-Claude Lejeune lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.

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Jadina Lilien lives in New York City.

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Laura Noel lives in Roswell, Georgia.

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Abigail Seymour lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Gary Walts lives in Watertown, New York.

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On The Cover

Robert Meyer: The man in the photograph is artist and writer Charles Biederman. In his early nineties at the time, he was completing his eleventh book on art and living alone in Red Wing, Minnesota, with help from his daughter and friends. He chain-smoked cigars for more than forty years but quit recently after his doctor told him he might live longer.

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image © Susie Fitzhugh

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Angela Winter

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