the New Pantagruel

Contributors for Volume One, Issue Two

L.J. Arensen

L. J. Arensen is an American expatriate currently living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She juggles freelance writing and development consultancies for various NGOs and is working on a novel.

Bruce R. Berglund

Bruce Berglund is Assistant Professor of History at Calvin College. He previously served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas where he was the assistant director of KU’s Center for Russian and East European Studies. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and his writing on Eastern Europe has appeared in numerous academic publications. (At the time this issue was published, Berglund was a contributing editor for TNP.)

Andy Black

Andy Black is Program Director for Faith Covenant Support Services, a Waco, Texas non-profit providing financial education and asset-building strategies for the working poor. His articles have appeared in Associated Baptist Press Stories, FaithWorks magazine, and the Truett Journal of Church and Mission. He will marry in July.

John Paul Davis

John Paul Davis is a writer and teacher. He and his family live in Yellow Springs, Ohio. He is an editor and designer of EM Literary, a national, hand-bound literary journal. His poetry, fiction and criticism have been published in a variety of creative writing journals including RATTLE, The Witness, Columbia Poetry Review, and Seven Stories. He maintains a web site of his own. (At the time this issue was published, John was Arts and Design Editor for tNP.)

Chantal Delsol

Chantal Delsol is professor of philosophy at the University of Marne-La-Vallée near Paris. A prominent political philosopher in France, she is also a novelist. Her books include a study of twentieth-century political thought, a treatise on the principle of subsidiarity, and Éloge de la singularité: essai sur la modernité tardive, which will be published in English in 2004. Icarus Fallen is her first book to be published in English.

Paul Ford

Paul Ford lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is regular contributor to The Morning News, a commentator for NPR's All Things Considered, Associate Web Editor for Harpers.org, the website of Harper's magazine, and can frequently be found doing things at his own site Ftrain.com.

Karen Hammer

Karen Hammer has been previously published in Mars Hill Review, and co-authored a book Guilty Pleasures, Indulgences, Addictions, and Obsessions, published by Andrews McNeel. She lives in St. Louis.

Jim Janknegt

Jim Jankgnet is an artist and a Christian (Episcopalian) who paints oil paintings, some large, some small. He paints parables of Jesus, angels, demons (demonic paintings?), biblical stories and stories from the bible. He is a modern artist, or maybe a post-modern artist; he doubts you would call him a traditional artist. He has paintings for sale online at http://www.bcartfarm.com/. He has been an Austin artist but is now an Elgin artist. His paintings are features as illustrations to various articles in this issue of The New Pantagruel

Gary Smith

Gary Smith lives in central Alabama with a wife and two young sons, who have inspired as-yet-unpublished poetry based on Blue's Clues and Bob the Builder. His music and writing careers have been hampered by having a Real Job as manager of a small business, but he is slowly working on a series of poems about the Gospels ("The Road to Emmaus" is one). He hopes they will, in the words of Franky Schaeffer, "contain enough theological problems to send Thomas Aquinas back to Bible College." He is one of the Moderators at zpoems.net and has been previously published in RATTLE.

Ragan Sutterfield

Ragan Sutterfield teaches high school at Little Rock Christian Academy and is an apprentice sheep farmer.

Steve Zelt

Steve Zelt has lived in Ontario (California) for the last 25 years. He pays the bills as a maker of signs in his one-man shop. He's been married 9 years, has just turned 50, and has four children, the last two of which are now entering college. His educational past is checkered: Two years at a small seminary that no longer exists, much college, but, alas, never a degree. For three years he was the teaching pastor at a small church in Ontario. He writes, “As to my writing experience, I've published a couple of non-fiction pieces, had poems published on small web zines, won several local and small-time national contests (that's where the real money for poetry is, I've found out), and recently I've learned that two of my poems will be appearing forwith in Berkeley's annual Spring chapbook; that's as close to that venerable institution as I'm likely to come.”

John Zmirak

John Zmirak is the author of Wilhelm Röpke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist.