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.
morePoet 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.
moreBird 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.
morePhilip 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).
moreStuart 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.
moreRenee 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.
moreMichael 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.”
moreCarolyn 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.
moreD. 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.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
morePhotographers
Roy Arenella lives in New York City.
moreJames Carroll lives in New York City.
moreWilliam Carter lives in Los Altos Hills, California.
moreMary Jane Fay lives in Helena, Montana.
moreSusie Fitzhugh lives in Seattle, Washington.
moreMichael Galinsky lives in Brooklyn, New York.
moreRichard Heintze lives in Menlo Park, California.
moreJanine Johnson lives in Hibbing, Minnesota.
moreJean-Claude Lejeune lives in Bernardston, Massachusetts.
moreJadina Lilien lives in New York City.
moreLaura Noel lives in Roswell, Georgia.
moreAbigail Seymour lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.
moreGary Walts lives in Watertown, New York.
moreOn 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.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Business Manager
Becky Gee
Circulation Director
Ilona Page
Assistant Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Robert Graham
Copy Editor
Seth Mirsky
Manuscript Editor
Colleen Donfield
Editorial Assistant
Rachel J. Elliott
Administrative Assistant
Angela Winter
Proofreader
Erica Berkeley
Researcher
Krista Bremer
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