About

Alyson Lie, Editor, brings her talents as a writer and editor to all aspects of Leaping Clear, including doing our first podcast, managing our mailing list, and posting on social media. She has worked as a freelance copywriter and as a journalist for a social justice magazine. She is a contributing editor at Catamaran Literary Reader, a national print journal of art and literature, which shares with Leaping Clear a beautiful aesthetic and high production values. She has practiced in the Theravada school of Buddhism since 2012 and leads meditation groups online.

Margery Cantor, Art Editor, has been instrumental in shaping the look of our magazine from the early days with our platform. She edits our contributor selection and invites wonderful artists she knows to contribute. Margery is a book and publication designer living in Vermont.

Simon Boes, Digital Editor. He received a BA from The University of the South, where he served as co-editor-in-chief of The Mountain Goat, opinions editor for The Sewanee Purple, and lyricist for the Sewanee Hymn Sesquicentennial Stanza. He received a scholarship in poetry to the Sewanee Writers' Conference. Recently he completed a sales and marketing internship at Island Press, a nonprofit, environmental publisher based in Washington, D.C.

Jen Schmidt, Editor, is a practicing poet, visual artist, and Anglican who has studied in southern California, England, and the coast of Scotland. She has worked in several editorial and writing media over the years, from journalism to artist exhibitions. Her approach to poetry stems from the belief that language must be felt, and she has written on speech sound and physical and liminal spaces in art. New to Leaping Clear, she is excited to come together with other artists and writers for whom contemplative practice is a vital part of their creative process. She now lives north of San Diego, CA.

Carolyn Dille, Founding Editor, does a bit of everything, including blog writing, outreach and Submittable responses to contributors, editorial calendar, and ad writing and placement. She has practiced in the Buddhist Insight and Soto Zen traditions for over thirty years and has taught meditation since 1996. She currently serves as a Guiding Teacher at Jikoji Zen Center and leads art and meditation workshops and courses. Carolyn is a poet and lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Dick Walvis, Web Administrator, contributes his digital skills and his fine metal-working eyes to creating the contributors’ pages. Dick is a former electronic engineer who also contributes ideas on work flow and new directions for the website. He makes silver and mixed-metal jewelry and is in the process of creating his own website to showcase it. Dick lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Donations

We are a group of volunteers that believes art of value is created freely and speaks to the deepest human aspirations. We’re ad-free and do not charge artists to submit work. We depend on the generosity of all who maintain Leaping Clear‘s web presence. If you’d like to contribute to these efforts by making a donation, we gratefully accept through our dedicated non-profit. Leaping Clear is incorporated as a 501.c3 tax-deductible public benefit organization with the U.S. government and the State of California. Our charitable ID# is 45-5164038.

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Thank you!