PRISMATIST

 CONTRIBUTORS

 

• Gerri Barr is a photographer, potter and gardener.  She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• Judy Dean lives in Dexter, Michigan and has a drop-in relationship with both writing and painting.  She's fond of gelato, fall colors and most animals.

• Nicole d'Entremont is the published  author of three novels, the most recent of which is Sketching With Renoir, as well as a number of short stories.  She lives on island off the coast of Maine.

• Peter D'Entremont is an architect and cyclist who lives and works in Durham, NC.  He and his wife have been crossing the country one section at a time on a tandem bicycle.

• Susan Dietrich Schneider is a singer, songwriter and musician who performs under the name "The Space Lady", which was the name she adopted when she was starting her musical career as a  busker (street musician) in Berkeley, California.  She lives in La Junta, Colorado when not on one of her frequent national and international tours.

• Tom Ewell is a Quaker living in Washington state with a lifelong commitment to peace and justice issues, especially criminal justice reform and anti-war work. 

• Tom Egel is a photographer, songwriter and guitarist.  He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He can be reached at tewell@whidbey.com.

• Jackie Falk lives a generously privileged life on the shore of Lake Superior. She subscribes to Mary Catherine Bateson’s observation that her life is “…something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt...”Hers has patches of teaching, legal work, pastoral service, walking, reading, and a look to what’s next.

• Lawrence Harman in addition to being a creator of eclectic art was a bus driver and mechanic and an office paper recycler and is  an activist, family man, and fixer.

• Rose Hart is a clinical psychologist who lives in a city in the northwest often parodied on TV.  A "nom de plume", Dr. Hart can be reached at dr.rose.hart@gmail.com. 

• Linda Heckenkamp is a visual artist and ceramicist-potter.  She lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• Erik Helzer is an amateur armchair philosopher, dedicated craft beer enthusiast, and piano hobbyist who moonlights as an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

• Vic Johnson has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. She is a national expert in the role data and policy play in shaping the fates of urban and regional economies.

• Jim Kent, a retired boring professor, is the oldest and most irritating of Don's seven kids.   He has been turned down twice for the federal Witness Protection Program--the first time because he applied to the Department of Agriculture instead of the Department of Justice, and the second time because they found out he hadn't actually seen anything.

• Ruth Kent is currently the pastor of a church in upstate New York, after previous careers in computers and tax law.  On the side she runs an archaeology lab at a dig in Jordan and teaches doctor-patient communications at a medical school.  She apparently can’t decide what to do with her life.

• Tracy Klein is a Professor at Washington State University-Vancouver and a poet-essayist who live in Portland, Oregon

• Jennifer Lavorel always wanted to be a writer and may still give it a go.

• ​Vicki (Vee) Lind, in her heart, is an old hippie. Vee lived in the Haight during much of the late sixties, and writes with humor and sadness about that culture dedicated to love. .She writes prose poems, performs at Ric’s Open Mic, and is completing her memoir, Gravity is Optional.  In 2021 Vee returned to Astoria,Oregon to reminisce while decoding secret messages from the barking Sea Lions.

• Tony Lopresti began his theatre career as a mime actor with the New York Pantomime Theatre in the 1980's and, since 2009, has been Mime Director for the Festival Music sull'Acqua on the shores of Lake Como in Italy.  In between, Tony was a writer/producer and for 22 years held the title of Director as head of the Video Production Unit for the New York Police Department/NYPD.

• Mark Magee is a commercial and independent filmmaker specializing in disabilities, healthcare, food and culture.  New adventures include writing and journalism.

• Gail Marnik lives in Chicago, Illinois where she engages in many creative endeavors

• Miranda Marnik-Said is majoring in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.

• Steve Melov spent four decades working for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. After retiring he has actively volunteered to promote equal rights for the LGBT community, including the right to marry.  He lives with his husband on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

• Irvin Peckham, an aging hippie, grew up on a rural Wisconsin farm. He taught high school English for thirteen years and at the college level for twenty-five, serving as the writing program director at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and Louisiana State University. His primary hobbies are guitar, bikes, pickleballing, and writing

• Sue Smaltz Burrus takes bits and pieces from her lives as a daughter, niece, teacher, researcher, writer, illustrator, potter, radio announcer, social worker and harp player… in Indiana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Massachusetts, Alaska, Pennsylvania, and Washington… and weaves them into something new again.  She is currently self-employed at Grandma’s Short Order Deli and Taxi Service, Ltd.

• John B. Wintermute was a writer, playwright, actor, director and Presbyterian Minister. A number of his stories and plays have been published. Most of his stories, including the two Christmas Stories published in the Prismatist were originally performed as a dramatic reading.  He died in 2008.  

• Steve Wintermute is a journalist who lives in Kingsport, Tennessee

• Tim Wintermute writes, draws, philosophizes, edits the Prismatist and does other stuff that no one will pay him for.  When he isn't traveling he does most of this in Baltimore, MD.

• Wendy Wintermute has led a varied and peripatetic life in educational and community organizations across the country and now lives in Harrisonburg, VA, where she is exploring the possibilities of life after "retirement."