Orion - November/December2015

Contributors

Ingo Arndt has traveled the globe for twenty-five years, photographing animals and their habitats. His work has been published in GEO, National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, and other magazines.

Belle Boggs is the author of Mattaponi Queen, a collection of short stories. Her essay in this issue of Orion is adapted from her new book, The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood, which will be published next year by Graywolf Press.

Ann E. Coulter’s drawings and paintings are inspired by the prairie landscape of the midwestern United States. She holds degrees in fine art from Illinois State University, San Diego State University, and Bradley University.

Ben Goldfarb’s journalism has appeared in High Country News, Earth Island Journal, The Guardian, and other publications. He received a master’s degree in Environmental Management from Yale University.

Jessica Greenbaum’s The Two Yvonnes was one of Library Journal’s Best Books of Poetry in 2012. She received a 2015 literature grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Benjamin Gucciardi’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Terrain.org, Talking River, The California Journal of Poetics, and elsewhere. He lives in California.

Sabine Heinlein is the author of Among Murderers: Life after Prison. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Margolis Award, an American Literary Review Award, and other honors.

Kathryn Hunt, author of Long Way Through Ruin, has published poems in The Sun, Crab Orchard Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.

Kathryn Kolb has worked as a freelance photographer since the 1980s. Her photographs have appeared in The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, and many other publications.

Robin MacArthur’s collection of short stories, Half Wild, will be published next year by Ecco. She lives in Vermont.

Mike Reagan has produced over three thousand original maps and illustrations for The New Yorker, National Geographic, The New York Times, and others.

Monte Reel is the author of the books Between Man and Beast and The Last of the Tribe. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times Magazine.

Aaron Sachs is the author of Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition. He teaches history at Cornell University.

Leath Tonino writes articles and conducts interviews for magazines ranging from The Sun to Men’s Journal. His piece “Weather Music” appeared in the Septem-ber/October 2015 issue of Orion.

Joe Wilkins’s memoir, The Mountain and the Fathers, was a finalist for the 2013 Orion Book Award. His third full-length collection of poetry, When We Were Birds, is forthcoming.

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