42 Magazine

Celebrating Life with Meaning

Staff

photo of Carin Huber Carin Huber is a Jill of Many Trades with delusions of insignificance. When not busy dominating the globe, she writes, edits, and crafts in her home in Oakland, California. In addition to writing and editing for 42, she performs similar duties for the AntiCraft.
Photo courtesy of Carin Huber
Guy Thomas, Editor, Politics and Pop Culture

photo of Serene Vannoy Serene Vannoy writes and edits from her home in Oakland, California. Her work has been published in numerous journals in the US and Canada. You can see many of her poems at her blog
Photo courtesy of Lisa Cohen


Contributors

Spring '09

Kathleen Flannigan, whose artwork "Sunrise Over Beet Field" graces our cover this issue, was born in Los Angeles in 1940. As a child with a disability, she began doing artwork at the age of five, drawing animals to soothe herself. At the age of 58, she experienced a crisis in her artwork, and began her studies in gender and disability studies. She's now a full-time student at UC Berkeley. Her mentor is Georgina Kleege. For Kathleen's next project, she will travel in June to Philadelphia to interview eight visually impaired artists. When she returns to California, she will produce a show featuring their art, along with her own art based on theirs.

L. J. Geoffrion lives near the southern shore of Lake Superior, with a cornucopia of kids, cats, dogs and the occasional partner. Her stories have also appeared in the webzines Expanded Horizons and Aphelion. In between punching a time clock and bouncing her grandson on her knee, she is currently working toward psych and nursing degrees at Northern Michigan University, where she listens to chemistry lecture with half an ear and writes. Hence the current chemistry grade.

Jo L. Gerrard says, "I hate writing bios. Despite poetry being normally a concise linguistic art form, it always seems so difficult to condense myself down to a couple of sentences. Right now, I'm not owned by anyone or anything other than my computer, I miss having rats, and I'm really, really slow about responding to email (but I do get to it eventually!)." Learn more about Ms. Gerrard at sistercoyote.com.

photo of Elizabeth Loveland Elizabeth Loveland is putting her anthropology degree to poor use as a freelance writer, editor, and nature photographer. Writer of 42's gardening column, she has been gardening since she was a child. She currently lives in New England with her cat, where they try to live as sustainably as they can. In her spare time, she cooks vegetarian food, solves crossword puzzles, and spends time outdoors.
Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Loveland
photo of Joanne Merriam Joanne Merriam is a Canadian living in Tennessee. Her poetry has appeared in dozens of journals, including The Fiddlehead, Stand Magazine, and Astropoetica. You can find her online at joannemerriam.com.
Photo courtesy of Joanne Merriam

Summer '09

photo of Susan Fenner Susan Fenner (née Crowe) is a former drama and dance teacher who now directs and choreographs her flowers. She studies and analyzes her dreams, co-pilots their Cessna with her husband, and assists African grandmothers raising their AIDS orphaned grandchildren through Granniesagogo.com in Vernon, Canada. In her retirement she studies writing, has published several magazine and newspaper articles in Canada and South Africa, and has had her most recent creative works accepted with The Danforth Review, Ascent Aspirations, Descant and Existere.
Photo courtesy of Susan Fenner
Kat Hausler was born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia. She received her degree in German Studies from New York University, and now lives and writes in Berlin.

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