Issue 569 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

May 2023

Writers

Katya Apekina is the author of two novels: The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish and Mother Doll, which is forthcoming next year. She lives in Los Angeles.

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Finn Cohen is an associate editor of The Sun.

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Jonathan Gleason’s work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Colorado Review, and his essay collection about medicine, illness, and the body was short-listed for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. He lives in Chicago, where he is still trying to decide what to do with his rib that doctors removed.

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Sy Safransky is founder and editor of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Dana Salvador grew up on a family farm in northeastern Colorado and often writes about this experience in her poetry and essays. She recently completed her first poetry manuscript, Crossing the Cattle Guard.

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Kate Vieira is a professor, international ethnographer, and single mom who lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Her nonfiction books include American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy and Writing for Love and Money. She is working on a memoir about single parenting, travel, and homeownership.

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Photographers

Dominique Philippe Bonnet’s work has appeared in the British Journal of Photography, Fine Art Photo, Silvershotz, and F-Stop Magazine. He lives in France and is the business manager for a network of travel agencies.

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Alexis Coy is studying science and spends her free time taking photos of the world around her.

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Michael Day is a cinematographer, producer, writer, and United States Marine Corps combat veteran. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has traveled to forty-nine states and fifty-five countries.

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Gloria Baker Feinstein lives in Portland, Oregon. Her most recent book of photography, I Hope You Find What You’re Looking For, includes poems by former Oregon poet laureate Kim Stafford.

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John Ferrara is a photographer who lives in Vermont. He gets so distracted on hikes with his camera that it’s a wonder he doesn’t get lost more often. Good thing his dog knows the way home.

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Matt Kollasch planned to live abroad for just two years when he took a job in Poland in 2006. He ended up staying for seven years and went on to live in Azerbaijan, Kosovo, and Germany. This summer he will move to Jordan.

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Christopher Michel is the artist-in-residence at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. You’re more likely to find him at the South Pole than at his home in San Francisco, California.

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On The Cover

David J. Bookbinder retired from a career in psychotherapy with plans to embark on long-deferred world travel. Instead he’s been working on Street People: Invisible New York Made Visible, a book featuring his street photography from the 1970s, which includes the photo on this month’s cover. The man is standing outside his building in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

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image © Christopher Michel

Editor and Founder
Sy Safransky

Senior Editor
Andrew Snee

Art Director
Robert Graham

Associate Editors
Derek Askey
Finn Cohen
Nancy Holochwost
David Mahaffey

Editorial Associate
& Photo Editor

Rachel J. Elliott

Assistant Editor
Staci Kleinmaier

Manuscript Reader
Hank Stephenson

Proofreader
Seth Mirsky

Outreach Coordinator
Anna Gazmarian


Publisher
Rob Bowers

Associate Publisher
Holly McKinney

Director of Development
& Outreach

Molly House

Reader Services Manager
Chrystal Pitt

Reader Services
Specialists

Shani Armstrong
Andrew Gleason

With Help From
Manuscript Reading
Dave Hart
Paula Jolin

Proofreading
Erica Berkeley
Jill Cooper

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