Our Writers
The Sunday Evening Review is built on experienced voices who treat every reader as a whole person.
Arthur Dandridge
Owned an independent bookshop for twenty-two years. Reads four books a week and has opinions about all of them. Writes reviews, reading lists, and the occasional love letter to the public library.
Bob Whitfield
Forty years in American journalism, from a Midwest daily to a major paper in Washington to a weekly column read across the Ohio Valley. Writes about what happened, what it means, and what they are not telling you.
Carol Gifford
Fourteen years as a registered nurse, then a career in health communication. Writes about what actually works, what is snake oil, and the questions you should be asking your doctor.
Dale Parsons
Spent more than a decade at a national magazine for older Americans and nearly a decade running a regional magazine in Virginia. Writes a weekly editor's letter about small things that make him think about large things.
Gary Kowalski
From the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to the fairways and trout streams of the north. Writes about golf, fishing, hunting, and the quiet conversation between a person and the natural world.
Glenn Suttner
Thirty years as a CPA and fee-only financial planner. Writes about your money the way your smartest friend talks about it: plainly, honestly, and with names named.
Howard Fenn
Thirty-eight years at the Associated Press, from the Kansas City bureau to the national desk and back. Writes a daily news column called The Day that covers what happened, connects it to what happened before, and always ends with something good.
Jean Hadley
Eighteen years as food editor at a major Midwest daily. Writes about food the way it is actually experienced: the Tuesday dinner, your mother's kitchen, and cooking for two as an art form.
Lorraine Kessler
Thirty years as a licensed family therapist before picking up a pen. Writes an advice column called Since You Asked, because people keep asking, and she has not yet learned to stop answering.
Milt Calloway
Twenty-six years as a film critic at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, followed by a decade of freelance criticism and a lifetime of watching movies in the dark. Writes about what is worth your time and what is not.
Phyllis Goodwin
Retired high school principal who started writing humor columns for her church newsletter and could not stop. Writes about modern life with the patience of a woman who has seen everything and the bewilderment of one who cannot believe what she is seeing now.
Ruben Navarro
Fourteen years as a food writer for a Texas regional magazine and a lifetime of eating with purpose. Writes about dining out the way it actually happens: the Tuesday lunch, the highway exit, and the white tablecloth.
Ruth Ann Pemberton
Social worker turned essayist. Writes about the emotional interior of life after fifty: marriage, friendship, grief, and the courage it takes to say what needs saying.
Sylvia Chen
Former travel editor, current road tripper. Has been to forty-seven countries and all fifty states, and the best meal she ever ate was at a gas station in New Mexico. Writes about travel the way real people do it.
Tom Whitaker
Forty years as a pastor in small churches. Writes about faith, doubt, mortality, and the questions that get bigger, not smaller, as we age.
Warren Holt
Science journalist, former professor, and author of two books about why things work the way they do. Connects dots nobody else connects.