The Ebb of Harbor Mountain Press
IAM very proud of what we did. Twenty years ago I moved to Vermont with my librarian partner and our two young children, leaving California bliss with no clear vision of what I would do “for money.” Then I was given adjunct work—something I couldn’t find in the PhD-rich Bay Area—and I started a magazine, Across Borders: An International Literary Annual. We published Saadi Youssef, Mahdi Issa al-Saqr, Shakir Mustafa, Sinan Antoon, Ana Merino, Sohrab Sepehri, Haale Gafori, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Ilya Kaminsky, Philippe Tapon, David Updike, Andrea Cohen, José Emilio Pacheco, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas, Ronald Bayes, Tom Zoellner, and others. It wasn’t my first experience with a magazine: Fresh out of college and graduate school, I had helped create two others, (Ohio) and (Brooklyn, New York, and San Francisco). Taking turns as “publisher” seemed what a writer should do to help the community.
