Contributors
August 2004
Writers
Eric Anderson lives in Elyria, Ohio, with his wife, Jennifer, and their two children, Calliope and Ethan. They are currently auditioning a new puppy, tentatively named Marco.
moreBrian Buckbee splits his time between Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Missoula, Montana. His work has appeared in the Threepenny Review, the Mid-American Review, and Shenandoah.
moreDoug Crandell’s memoir, Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird, will be published this year by Chicago Review Press, and Ludlow Press will bring out his first novel. His essays and stories have appeared in Smithsonian, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. He lives in Smyrna, Georgia.
moreLonnie Hull DuPont lives in rural Michigan, where she works as a book editor and writer. She is the author of The Haiku Box (Tuttle Publishing) as well as five poetry chapbooks from small San Francisco presses.
moreStuart Kestenbaum lives in Deer Isle, Maine. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press) and House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions).
moreHeather King is a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and the author of the memoir Parched, forthcoming from Chamberlain Brothers, a division of Putnam Penguin.
morePat MacEnulty is a freelance book editor and the author of the novel Sweet Fire (High Risk Books). Her short-story collection The Language of Sharks was published this summer by Serpent’s Tail. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
moreLinda McCullough Moore is the author of The Distance Between (SoHo Press). She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, and is currently in search of a publisher for a novel and a short-story collection.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreTheresa Williams’s novel The Secret of Hurricanes was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2002. “Blue Velvis” is the title story from an unpublished collection. She lives in Ohio and would like to hear from Sun readers.
morePhotographers
Kent C. Behrens lives in Omaha, Nebraska, with his wife, dog, and two cats. He has a studio in Omaha and teaches photography part time.
moreSylvia de Swaan was born in Romania and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of ten. Several years ago she returned to Eastern Europe to follow the routes her family traveled as refugees after World War II. She lives in Utica, New York.
morePhotographer Sara Goldenthal lives in Belfast, Maine, where she sings in a jazz trio. She is currently working on a series of portraits of her cat Tucker.
moreMaury Gortemiller is a writer and freelance photographer living in Greenville, South Carolina.
moreDuncan Green discovered photography at a YMCA camp when he was eleven. He lives in Olympia, Washington, and is the staff photographer for the Washington State House of Representatives.
morePhotographer Edis Jurčys was born in Lithuania and immigrated to the U.S. more than ten years ago. He lives in Portland, Oregon, close to Mount Hood, and loves to downhill ski.
moreChristopher Lopez lives in New Paltz, New York. His photograph in this issue was taken on a religious commune in Tennessee.
moreAnna Kaufman Moon took the photographs for Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book and recently self-published a book of photographs titled Reflections of NYC, 1963-1972. She lives in Cobleskill, New York.
moreLink Nicoll is a Washington, D.C., photographer whose work has appeared in People, Smithsonian, and the New Republic.
morePhotographer Dion Ogust grew up in New York City and later took refuge in Woodstock, New York, where she still lives.
moreHarry Wilson is a photographer who lives in Bakersfield, California.
moreBill Witt is a freelance photographer who served for ten years as an Iowa State Representative. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and likes to visit out-of-the-way places where people still care more about each other than about things.
moreJackie Wlodarczak is a photographer and teacher living in New York City.
moreOn The Cover
For more than twenty-five years Helen M. Stummer has been photographing the lives and struggles of poor people in Newark, New Jersey, and on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. One winter day, she noticed ice coming from the ground-floor windows of a three-story tenement. The pipes in the building had burst, but a family was still living inside, the neighbors said. On the third floor Stummer found the family matriarch (pictured on this month’s cover) watching her grandchildren while the other adults were out looking for work. There was no heat in the building, so the children were crowded into the kitchen to keep warm by the gas jets of the stove. Stummer lives in Metuchen, New Jersey, and is the author of No Easy Walk: Newark, 1980-1993 (Temple University Press).
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Assistant Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Robert Graham
Manuscript Editor
Colleen Donfield
Editorial & Photo
Assistant
Rachel J. Elliott
Editorial Assistant
Erica Berkeley
Proofreader
Seth Mirsky
Manuscript Reader
Gillian Kendall
Business Manager
Becky Gee
Circulation Director
Krista Bremer
Project Manager
Angela Winter
Archivist
Erika Simon
Reader Services
Heather Barnes
Administrative Assistant
Lucas Saunders
Circulation Consultant
Ilona Page
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