Sugar Days

By Sierra Crane-Murdoch,  Illustrations by Jenn Ely
Working the Harvest, Then Moving On

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Issue: Spring 2015 / Volume 91/2
Published: April 1, 2015
Sierra Crane-Murdoch

Sierra Crane-Murdoch has written for the Atlantic and is a contributing editor of High Country News, a magazine about the American West. She is a visiting fellow in the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley. For “Sugar Days,” she received a residency in literary journalism at...

Jenn Ely

Jenn Ely is an illustrator and designer who has worked on film- and television-animation projects including Dreamworks’s The Adventures of Puss in Boots (2015) and the Academy Award-nominated stop-motion feature film The Boxtrolls (2014). Her clients also include Google and House Special.

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