Issue 561 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

September 2022

Writers

Elizabeth Bradfield lives in Massachusetts, where she works as a naturalist, teaches at Brandeis University, and runs Broadsided Press.

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Steve Edwards is the author of the memoir Breaking into the Backcountry, a story of solitude and wilderness along the Rogue River in Oregon. He lives in Littleton, Massachusetts.

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Tracy Frisch finds joy and wonder in her expansive food gardens and advocates for pollution reduction in Upstate New York.

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Jacquelyn Gill is a high-school dropout, scientist, and climate advocate who lives in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a. She once lost the title of Mainer of the Year to Susan Collins and is still mad about it.

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K.T. Landon works at a biomedical-research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of the poetry collection Orange, Dreaming and finds inspiration with surprising frequency at the grocery store.

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Alison Luterman’s latest book of poetry is In the Time of Great Fires. She lives, writes, and teaches in Oakland, California, and all over the world on Zoom.

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Alison McGhee lives a seminomadic life with her family and her dog, Paco, who bangs his paw on the keyboard to tell her when it’s time to stop writing for the day.

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Bruce McKay lives in California in a little house full of books. His fiction has appeared in The Southern Review and ZYZZYVA.

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River Reyes is the pseudonym of an author who writes about small creatures, weird ecologies, big landscapes, and the people who love them.

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John Paul Scotto is writing a novel about neurodivergence, sexual repression, and high-school football. (scotto.writing@gmail.com)

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Morgan Talty lives in Maine and is a citizen of the Penobscot Nation. His first book, the short-story collection Night of the Living Rez, was published this year.

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Photographers

Karyna Aslanova’s work has appeared in BROAD and F-Stop. She lives in the UK, where she enjoys cosplay and badminton.

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Cameron Bloch worked as an Associated Press photographer, writer, and editor for more than forty years. He lives in New York City.

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F. Brian Ferguson is a photojournalist in West Virginia whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Harper’s Magazine. He is currently a whitewater-rafting photographer at the New River Gorge, the nation’s newest national park.

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Rachele Gabrielli is a photographer who lives in Rome, Italy. You can follow her on Instagram: @87rachele.

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Michael Galinsky is a filmmaker, photographer, and musician who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. His latest project is an ESPN+ series about the Savannah Bananas.

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Troyce Hoffman is a photographer based in Truckee, California.

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Tom Hogeback is a photographer, gallery owner, and picture framer who lives outside of Oxford, Ohio.

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Kellie Klein is a photographer and educator from the Midwest.

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Marilyn Lemmon is a retired cancer researcher enjoying the alpine life in Mount Shasta, California.

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Caroline Nicola was a forest squatter for five years after graduating from college. Now she lives in Santa Cruz, California, where she works as a massage therapist.

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Capers Rumph lives in Hillsboro, Oregon, where she is a full-time farmer and part-time photographer.

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Tasha Thomas works in the film industry as a scenic artist and lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Cole Thompson lives in Laporte, Colorado. He photographs exclusively in black-and-white.

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On The Cover

Naomi Stolow recently left a long e-commerce career in London for a better life deep in the UK countryside. She lives in an ancient milking parlor and loves taking pictures of wildlife, nature, and, occasionally, people. She took the photo on this month’s cover in Dawlish, UK, a seaside town known for its black swans.

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image © Tom Hogeback

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