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A great magazine requires great talent. The ambition of Bloom is to gather all of the best writing, design, and photographic talent in Bloomington to produce the very best magazine possible. Below are some of the gifted people who contribute to Bloom.

Steve Raymer
One of the world's foremost photojournalists, Steve worked for National Geographic for 25 years where he covered wars, famines, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Steve teaches photojournalism, media ethics, and international newsgathering at IU. A former national "Magazine Photographer of the Year," he has photographed three cover stories for Bloom and appeared himself on the cover of the December issue.

Christine Barbour
Christine is a political science professor at IU and a prolific freelance writer and photographer specializing in food. For four years, she contributed the popular "Food Fare" column to The Herald-Times. She is co-author of Indiana Cooks! and is currently writing Home-Grown Indiana: A Food Lover's Guide to Good Eating in the Hoosier State with Scott Hutcheson.

Lee Ann Sandweiss
Lee is a Bloomington-based publications consultant and freelance writer. She is the author of St. Louis Architecture for Kids and Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670-2000, as well as a contributor to a wide variety of academic and popular publications. Lee writes about shopping, fashion, and design for Bloom.

David Brent Johnson
David is the popular host of two weekly WFIU-Bloomington jazz programs, Afterglow and Night Lights. He is a winner of the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists award for best arts writing. For Bloom, David writes about music and books.

Debra Kent
Deb, a frequent contributor to Bloom, writes for such magazines as Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping; websites like iVillage.com, MSN.com, and Match.com; and for the Indiana University and IU Foundation. Deb is delighted to have lived most of her adult life in Bloomington.

James Kellar
James is a freelance photographer and graphic artist. His award-winning photography has been exhibited at the Sheldon Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute; The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, Colorado; and the SoFa Gallery, Indiana University.


 
Elisabeth Andrews
Elisabeth is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Bloom, where her work has earned "Best of Indiana" awards from the Society of Professional Journalists two years running. She recently completed her second book on great speeches, Words That Changed the World (Publications International).

Nancy Hiller
Primarily a designer and cabinetmaker, Nancy is the author of The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History (Indiana University Press, 2009). Nancy's second book, A Home of Her Own, is scheduled for publication in October, 2011 by the IU Press.

Shannon Zahnle
Shannon is a freelance photographer, longtime Bloomington resident, and IU alumna. Her work can be found on walls, on websites, in magazines, and in the Kinsey Institute.

Pamela Keech
Pamela was a buck-toothed, lackluster child, who became an art over-achiever when she entered the ninth grade and got braces. She has since been a visual artist, designer, curator, writer, exhibit preparator, photographer, commercial stylist, museum shop director, and costume designer. Her lifetime goal is to have four husbands. She has had two and a half so far.

Moya Andrews
Moya is retired from Indiana University where she was professor of speech and hearing sciences, vice chancellor for academic affairs, and dean of the faculties. She hosts Focus on Flowers on WFIU and writes about gardening for Bloom.

Jeremy Shere
Jeremy is a writer, producer, and songwriter based in Bloomington. He is a producer for the award-winning public radio program Sound Medicine, a long-time staff writer for public radio's A Moment of Science, and a frequent contributor to Bloom. Jeremy is currently writing a book, reNEWable: The new, old, strange, infuriating, and inspiring story of alternative energy, for St. Martin's Press. His song, "In Deep," is featured in the Disney movie PROM.


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