Issue 344 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

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.

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Brian Buckbee splits his time between Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Missoula, Montana. His work has appeared in the Threepenny Review, the Mid-American Review, and Shenandoah.

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Doug 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.

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Lonnie 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.

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Stuart 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).

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Heather 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.

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Pat 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.

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Linda 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.

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Sy Safransky is editor of The Sun.

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Theresa 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 “Blue Velvis” is the title story from an unpublished collection.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.

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Photographers

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.

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Sylvia 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.

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Photographer 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.

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Maury Gortemiller is a writer and freelance photographer living in Greenville, South Carolina.

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Duncan 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.

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Photographer 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.

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Christopher Lopez lives in New Paltz, New York. His photograph in this issue was taken on a religious commune in Tennessee.

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Anna 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.

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Link Nicoll is a Washington, D.C., photographer whose work has appeared in People, Smithsonian, and the New Republic.

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Photographer Dion Ogust grew up in New York City and later took refuge in Woodstock, New York, where she still lives.

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Harry Wilson is a photographer who lives in Bakersfield, California.

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Bill 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.

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Jackie Wlodarczak is a photographer and teacher living in New York City.

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On 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).

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image © Anna Kaufman Moon

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