Contributors
January 2007
Writers
Krista Bremer says she has learned more about faith from mothering than from any spiritual teacher. She lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, with her husband, their curly-haired baby boy, and his precocious big sister, who plans to work at The Sun with her mom when she grows up.
moreMatthew Deshe Cashion teaches English at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and is the author of the novel How the Sun Shines on Noise (Livingston Press). His work has appeared in Wind, Hawai’i Review, and Wisconsin Review. He lives in La Crosse.
moreDoug Crandell is the author of Pig Boy’s Wicked Bird (Chicago Review Press). He also directs a federal project that teaches prisoners how to start their own businesses after they reenter society. His essay in this issue will appear in the forthcoming anthology When I Was a Loser (Free Press). He lives in Marietta, Georgia.
moreChristopher Locke, when he’s not writing or playing with his two daughters, can be found in his kitchen tossing smoked sea salt into his monkfish chowder or watching his molten chocolate cakes bloom in the oven. Don’t even get him started on wine.
moreMarc Polonsky is the author of The Poetry Reader’s Toolkit (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill) and loves working at home as a freelance writer, although he occasionally gets distracted by online chess. His e-zine, Watch Words, is available for free through his website, www.marcwordsmith.com. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, singer-songwriter Eve Decker (www.evedecker.com). A longer version of his essay in this issue can be found online at www.insidersview.info/theseed.htm.
moreSy Safransky is editor of The Sun.
moreJane Schapiro is the author of Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and the Swiss Banks (University of Wisconsin Press) and the poetry collection Tapping This Stone (Washington Writers’ Publishing House). She lives in Fairfax, Virginia, and tutors student athletes at George Mason University, where she cheered on the men’s basketball team in its 2006 run to the Final Four.
moreAthena Stevens has provided disaster relief as a volunteer to families in California, Louisiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Washington. She has also been a flight attendant, a barista, and a bank teller. She is now a writer and editor living in Seattle, Washington.
morePhotographers
Bob Bayles is a photographer who lives in Van Nuys, California. He likes to incorporate quotes from movies in conversation, which leads his family to playfully accuse him of being unoriginal. “Either that,” he says, “or they actually believe ‘I’m very shallow and empty, and I have no ideas and nothing interesting to say’ (Annie Hall).”
moreNicole Blaisdell is a photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
moreJames Carroll, in semiretirement after thirty years of work in photography-related fields, is finally concentrating on photography projects of his own. He lives in New York City.
morePolly Chandler works as a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives, and her work has appeared in American Photo and Shots. She lives in Austin, Texas.
moreErin Corbal is a photographer and compulsive list-maker who took great satisfaction in writing up this biographical note and crossing it off her list. She lives with her husband in Altadena, California.
moreSteve Donoso is a photographer and the director of the International Film Festival of the Spirit (www.filmspirit.org). He lives in Camden, Maine.
moreMartin Fishman is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
moreAnders Goldfarb is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
moreFrank Hamrick’s photography career began at age ten, when he traded an old hat for a cheap 35mm camera. He is the author of i found it when i stopped looking (Nexus Press). He lives in Gray, Georgia.
moreEdis Jurčys is a Lithuanian photographer living in Portland, Oregon. His latest goal is to learn Japanese.
moreLinda Sole is a freelance photographer living in London.
moreKerry St. Ours is a photographer who lives with her husband and daughter in Huntington, New York.
moreMark Townsend is a photographer who lives in Brooklyn, New York.
moreSuzi Q. Varin is a punk-rock tomboy who is more surprised than anyone to find herself photographing weddings for a living. She lives in West Hollywood, California.
moreOn The Cover
Bill Emory lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He took this month’s cover photograph of his daughter Emma in 1987, when she was five years old. She recently returned from Senegal, where she taught English, and is currently roaming the U.S. Her identical twin, Helen, is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps.
moreEditor
Sy Safransky
Managing Editor
Tim McKee
Senior Editor
Andrew Snee
Art Director
Robert Graham
Manuscript Editor
Colleen Donfield
Editorial Associates
Erica Berkeley
Rachel J. Elliott
Assistant to the Editor
Luc Saunders
Proofreader
Seth Mirsky
Manuscript Reader
Gillian Kendall
Business Manager
Becky Gee
Circulation Director
Krista Bremer
Website & Events Director
Angela Winter
Circulation Assistant
Kat Nicholas
Administrative Assistant
Angel Kropf
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