Contributors

Christopher Ketcham

Mac McClelland

Brian Doyle

Danica Novgorodoff

Jason Anthony’s Antarctic essays have appeared in VQR and Best American Travel Writing 2007. He is currently writing a book on the history of Antarctic cuisine.

David Paul Bayles is a landscape photographer living in Oregon. His book Urban Forest was selected by the Christian Science Monitor as one of the top seven photography books of 2003.

Anthony Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize, the Discover Prize, and three O. Henry Awards. His fourth book, a collection of stories titled Memory Wall, will be published by Scribner this July.

Brian Doyle is editor of Portland Magazine at the University of Portland and author of, most recently, Thirsty for the Joy.

Carolyn Drake is a documentary photographer based in Istanbul. She was recognized as a top emerging photographer in 2006 by Photo District News and in 2007 by the Magenta Foundation.

Karen Eastman resides in southern California. Her work has been commissioned by the National Institute for Health in Washington DC.

Christopher Ketcham writes for Vanity Fair, Harper’s, and GQ. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and Moab, Utah, and is currently writing a book of nonfiction.

Mac McClelland is a writer and editor at
Mother Jones. Her book For Us Surrender Is
Out of the Question is due out this March.
She lives in San Francisco.

Danica Novgorodoff is a Brooklyn-based painter, comic book artist, writer, and graphic designer. Her graphic novels Slow Storm and Refresh, Refresh were published by First Second Books.

Cecily Parks’s poetry collection Field Folly Snow was a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Shenandoah/ Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. She lives in New York City.

Benjamin Percy is the author of Refresh, Refresh, The Language of Elk, and a forthcoming novel, The Wilding. He teaches in the MFA program in creative writing and environment at Iowa State University and is a regular contributor to Esquire.

Barbara Ras received the Walt Whitman Award in 1997. Her newest poetry collection, The Last Skin, is forthcoming this year. She directs Trinity University Press in San Antonio, Texas.

Phillip Toledano’s photographs in this issue are from his first book, Bankrupt, published by Twin Palms in 2005. He is currently working on a series titled A New Kind of Beauty.

Derek Walcott received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. His poem in this issue is from his fourteenth collection of poems, White Egrets, forthcoming this April from Farrar, Straus and Giroux and used here by permission.