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Editor

John Lang
Now and then: reporter/editor at The Associated Press, The New York Post, U.S. News & World Report, Singapore Straits Times, The Washington Post, Scripps-Howard News Service & teacher at The Journalism Institute of Fiji and at Washington College.

Contributing Writers

Jo Tartt Jr. is a writer, photography dealer and onetime seminarian living outside Warrenton, Va., whose column Growing Up chronicles a boyhood in the rural South of half a century ago, a wilder time in a wilder place. His photography website is www.tarttgallery.com.

James Conaway is the author of eleven books, including the just-published Vanishing America: In pursuit of our Elusive Landscapes. His previous book, The Far Side of Eden: Old Land, New Money and the Battle for Napa Valley, a sequel to his best-selling Napa: The Story of an American Eden, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year in 2002. His other books include the memoir, Memphis Afternoons, The Kingdom in the Country, a personal journey through the public lands of the American West, and the novel, The Big Easy. He has written for many magazines, including National Geographic Traveler, Saveur, Smithsonian, Harpers, and Traveler.

Poet in Residence
Meredith Davies Hadaway’s collection of poetry, Fishing Secrets of the Dead, came out from Word Press in 2005. More recently her poems have appeared in Poet Lore, Spillway, Bayou, Isotope, Gulf Stream, Margie, California Quarterly, the South Carolina Review, River Oak Review, and Eclipse. In her spare time, she serves as Vice President for College Relations & Marketing at Washington College.

South American Correspondent
Richard Hartley, teacher, translator and writer, worked as a journalist in Washington, D.C., and for the past eight years has directed an environmental NGO in Brazil.