Contributors
February 2017
Writers
Ellen Bass teaches writing at Pacific University. Her most recent book of poetry, Like a Beggar, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She’s been getting into bed with the same woman every night for thirty-four years — and is more grateful every year.
moreJane Bernstein is the author of five books, including the memoirs Bereft: A Sister’s Story and Rachel in the World. Her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, VICE, and Poets & Writers. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.
moreKrista Bremer is the associate publisher of The Sun and the author of My Accidental Jihad: A Love Story, a memoir that began as a Pushcart Prize–winning essay in this magazine. She appreciates one thing about Donald Trump: he has done wonders for her writer’s block.
moreDavid Budbill was a poet who lived in Montpelier, Vermont. He died in 2016 at the age of seventy-six.
moreJim Daniels’s fifteenth book of poems, Rowing Inland, was just published by Wayne State University Press. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University. He doesn’t run wicked fast anymore, except in his imagination.
moreBrian Doyle lives in Portland, Oregon, and is the editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland. He has written fourteen books, among them the novel Chicago and the collection The Thorny Grace of It: And Other Essays for Imperfect Catholics. [Please see our note about Doyle in this month’s issue. — Ed.]
moreLangston Hughes was a writer and social activist whose work often explored the everyday experiences of African Americans. He died in 1967.
moreDiana S. McCall lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina, where she manages the town’s community garden. For twelve years after she interviewed David Budbill, he exchanged handwritten letters with her about family, gardening, and the weather.
moreRebecca McClanahan teaches writing at Queens University of Charlotte and the Rainier Writing Workshop. She is the author of ten books, most recently the memoir The Tribal Knot. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.
moreJennifer Rabin is a writer and artist whose essays and criticism have appeared in Harvard Review, The Rumpus, and Bitch. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she can be found hunched over her computer or working in her art studio.
moreLeath Tonino is a freelance writer born and raised in Vermont. His essay “In Pursuit of Bird Poop” was a notable mention in 2016’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing.
moreKaren Whalley lives in Port Angeles, Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection The Rented Violin.
morePhotographers
James Carroll is a New York City–based photographer whose work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The American Prospect, and Venture.
moreWilliam Carter’s latest book of photographs is Causes and Spirits. He lives in San Mateo, California.
moreHudson Gardner lives in Forest Grove, Oregon. Sometimes he wants to live in isolation as a mountain sage, but for now he’s figuring out how to write and afford groceries.
moreNorth Joffe-Nelson is a wildlife photographer who cooks for money and coaches youth sports for fun.
moreLaurie Minor’s photographs have been published in the Toronto Star and Canadian Geographic. She lives on four acres of rolling land in Ridgeville, Ontario, with her husband and their two golden retrievers.
moreKat Moser lives in Snowmass, Colorado. Her photographs have been exhibited in Colorado, Nebraska, and Oregon.
moreNora Sweeny lives in Los Altos, California. Her film Rollercoaster, a celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, was screened at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in 2007.
moreMike Szpot discovered his passion for photography while browsing Instagram. He lives in Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
moreKaren Tweedy-Holmes is a horse-obsessed freelance photographer based in New York City. Her books of photographs are Horse Sanctuary with text by Allison Milionis and Thought to Exist in the Wild with text by Derrick Jensen.
moreEoin Vincent lives north of Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife and three children. He is the author of Eyes of Tanzania, featuring photographs of orphanages, hospitals, and schools in an East African city.
moreOn The Cover
Szymon Barylski took this month’s cover photo in the Greek village of Idomeni, on the Macedonian border, in March 2016. The girl, a Syrian refugee, is holding her infant sibling. Barylski lives in Galway, Ireland.
moreEditor and Publisher
Sy Safransky
Managing Editor
Carol Ann Fitzgerald
Senior Editor
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Art Director
Robert Graham
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Luc Saunders
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& Photo Editor
Rachel J. Elliott
Editorial Assistant
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Associate Publisher
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Business Manager
Rob Bowers
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