Corresponding Authors – Postscript
Dr. Newman’s final batch of letters was sent by express mail to ensure that it would arrive in time for Ilanot’s expected publication date. This came at a hefty fee, but she was assured that express mail would definitely deliver her letters in two weeks. The letters did not arrive by that date, or for the next week after that, lost, apparently somewhere in a sorting facility in Bnei Brak. In Tel Aviv, Mr. Morena doubted that they would ever arrive. Eventually, there was a frantic knock at his door: an angry delivery man. “Why won’t you pick up your phone?? I’ve been trying to call you. You got this letter. It looks important.” Ten minutes after the letter was in his hand a text message’s yellow envelope notification icon arrived. “Hi,” said the message, “there is a envelope for you. Should I leave it in your mailbox?”
Amy Newman is a writer from New York who lives for the time being in the Midwest. She is the author of five collections, most recently On This Day in Poetry History (Persea, 2016) and Dear Editor (Persea, 2011). She teaches writing and literature at Northern Illinois University, and tweets at @NewmanAmyL.
Anthony Michael Morena is a writer from New York who lives in Tel Aviv. He is the author of The Voyager Record (Rose Metal Press, 2016) and an assistant fiction editor for Gigantic Sequins, a good-looking, biannual, black & white literary arts journal. In 2015 he received his MA in creative writing from Bar-Ilan University. His writing has appeared in The Establishment, The Normal School, Ninth Letter, Flapperhouse, The Mondegreen, and Queen Mob’s Tea House, and he has been a guest editor and interviewer for The Ilanot Review. He also tweets as @anphimimor.