Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Jane Shore

Associate Poetry Editor

James Richardson

Editor for Fiction Supplement

DeWitt Henry

Associate Fiction Editors

John Domini

David Gullette

James Randall

Ellen Wilbur

CONTRIBUTORS

TOM ABSHER teaches in the Adult Degree Program at Goddard College and was awarded an NEA fellowship in 1976.

NIN RUBENSTEIN ALONSO lives in Cambridge. She has published a book of poems,
This Body (Godine Press). Poems from a manuscript in progress will appear soon in
The New Boston Review.

JACK ANDERSON is the author of
The Invention of New Jersey and
City Joys.

MICHAEL BENEDIKT is poetry editor of
The Paris Review, teaches at Vassar, and is working on a new book tentatively entitled. "The Badminton at Great Barrington; or, Gustave Mahler and The Chattanooga Choo-choo."

GUITA BOUVARD is the chairwoman of the Political Science Department at Regis College. Her poems have appeared in the
Southwest Review, Carleton Miscellany, and
Literary Review.

CORA BROOKS is author of
Heather in a Jar and poet in residence at Wheaton College.

RICHARD CECIL lives in Richmond, Va., and has published poems in
American Poetry Review, Poetry, Ploughshares 2/1 and others.

ANNE CHERNER graduated from Harvard last year and is presently in the Columbia School of the Arts.

JOHN J. CLAYTON teaches at U. Mass. Amherst, has published a critical study on Saul Bellow, fiction in
American Review, Massachusetts Review, Antioch Review, Best American Short Stories and
The O'Henry Award Stories, and recently has completed a novel.

BILLY COLLINS is an editor of
The Midatlantic Review and is presently working on a biography of Boz Scaggs.

GEORGE COLT graduated from Harvard last year and is spending this year working and writing in Paris.

HELENE DAVIS lives in Boston.

EDWARD DIAO is a pre-med senior at Harvard. This is his first publication.

EDWARD DOOLEY is a former Boston teacher living in Allston, Mass. "The Perfect Crime" is part of a larger work he has been writing for some time.

NORMAN DUBIE lives in Tempe, Arizona, and has published in many magazines. His latest book,
The Illustrations, is published by George Braziller.

JOHN ENGELS has a new book,
Blood Mountain, due from the Univ. of Pittsburgh Press.

JOHN BART GERALD lives in Moody, Maine. He has published two novels,
A Thousand, Thousand Mornings and
Conventional Wisdom, edited an anthology,
Survival Prose, and published stories in
Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares (1/2 & 1/3), Best American Short Stories, and (upcoming)
fiction international.

BARRY GOLDENSOHN teaches at Goddard College.
St. Venus Eve was published by Cummington Press (1971).

LORRIE GOLDENSOHN teaches at Goddard College and writes poetry and criticism. Her article on Elizabeth Bishop is forthcoming in
American Poetry Review.

ALVIN GREENBERG lives in St. Paul. A long poem,
In/Direction, is forthcoming from Godine.

DEBORA GREGER is a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, Massachusetts Review, Ohio Review. Penumbra Press will publish her book next year.

DANIEL HALPERN edits
Antaeus and The Ecco Press. His books are
Traveling on Credit (Viking, 1972),
Street Fire (Viking), and as editor,
The American Poetry Anthology (Avon, 1976).

RICHARD HUGO'S latest book is
What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American (Norton). He teaches at the University of Montana.

MERRILL KAITZ is the editor of
Zeugma.

JUDITH LEET has recently published
Pleasure Seeker's Guide (Houghton Mifflin, 1976) and works as a freelance editor in the Boston-Cambridge area.

BRAD LEITHAUSER lives in Cambridge, is working on a novel, and has appeared in
Poetry.

JOHN MALONEY teaches poetry to children at Project, Inc. in Cambridge, and is currently in his second season as the player-coach of the Grolier Bookstore (industrial A-league) basketball team.

DAVID MCCANN teaches Japanese and Korean at Cornell University, and has poems forthcoming in
Poetry.

JOHN MCGAHERN, generally regarded as one of Ireland's foremost fiction writers, is in residence this term at Colgate University. His novels are
The Barracks, The Dark, and
The Leavetaking (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1975), and stories,
Nightlines. A new collection of stories is forthcoming from Atlantic-Little, Brown later this year.

KRINSTINA MCGRATH lives in New York City and works in the N.Y. State Poets in the Schools program. She won a CAPS award for 1977 and has published poems in
The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review and other magazines.

SHEILA MCMILLEN is a Teaching Assistant and student in the M.A. in Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. This is her first publication.

FREDERICK MORGAN'S second collection,
Poems of the Two Worlds, is being published by the University of Illinois Press this spring. His first,
A
Book of Change (Scribners), was a National Book Award finalist for 1973.

PAUL NELSON teaches at Goddard College. His book of poems,
Average Nights, will be published by L'Epervier this spring.

MARK O'DONNELL graduated from Harvard, where he wrote three Hasty Pudding shows. He spent this year studying Irish folklore in Dublin.

CAROLE OLES received an NEA grant in poetry for 1976-77. She works in the Massachusetts Arts & Humanities Foundation's Artists in Residence Program.

LINDA PASTAN'S collection,
Aspects of Eve, was published in 1975 (Live-right). New poems are appearing in
Poetry, The New Yorker, The American Scholar and
Field.

JAMES RICHARDSON is the author of
Reservations (Princeton) and
Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Necessity (Univ. of Chicago). He teaches at Harvard.

PEGGY RIZZA is a graduate student at Harvard. Her poems have appeared in
The New Republic and
Ploughshares.

DAVID ROSNER has published short fiction in the
Southwest Review and
Stonecloud. He has been living in the Boston area since receiving an M.A. from the Boston University Writing Program, and is currently working on a novel.

MICHAEL RYAN teaches at Southern Methodist University. His book,
Threats Instead of Trees, won the Yale Younger Poet competition in 1974.

VANESSA RYDER lives in Seattle, Washington and spent last year at Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop.

MIRIAM SAGAN graduated from Radcliffe, is a graduate student in Boston University's Writing Program, and has a chapbook,
Dangerous Bodies.

MARY JOE SALTER graduated from Radcliffe in 1976 and is currently studying English poetry at Cambridge University.

LLOYD SCHWARTZ teaches at Boston State College. He was an Associate Editor of
Ploughshares 2/4 and is presently Contributing Music Critic of
The Boston Herald-American. Some of his poems are about to appear in
Poetry Now, Seneca Review and the final issue of the
American Review. He is coediting a collection of essays on Elizabeth Bishop.

LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ has published fiction and reviews in
The Transatlantic Review, Ms., Aphra, The Smith, Redbook, and many other periodicals. She was the winner of Vanguard Press's James Henle Award for fiction in
The Ontario Review, 1974-75.

BETSY SHOLL is a Cambridge poet spending the year in Big Stone Gap, Virginia.
Changing Faces was published by Alice James in 1974.

JANE SHORE is Briggs Copeland Lecturer at Harvard. She received a grant from the Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Foundation for 1976-77, and is the 1977 recipient of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize.
Eye Level is scheduled for publication December 1977.

JEFF SILVA lives on one edge of Narragansett Bay and is working on his first book
Fossils of Breath.

ROGER SKILLINGS is a director of the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop, and has published fiction in
Prairie Schooner, Northwest Review, Antaeus, Tri-Quarterly and others. A collection of twelve stories,
Alternate Lives, was published by Ithaca House in 1974. A collection of thirty more awaits publication.

JOHN SKOYLES teaches at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

RON SLATE edits
The Chowder Review and has poems in
Poetry Northwest, Massachusetts Review, and
Poetry Now.

KATHRYN VAN SPANKEREN lives in Cambridge with her husband and son; co-edits
Aspect magazine; and teaches writing and mythology at Wheaton College.

KATHLEES SPIVAK has published
Flying Inland and
The Jane Poems with Doubleday.

MAURA STANTON teaches at the University of Richmond. Her book of poems,
Snow on Snow, won the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1975. Her fiction has appeared in
Ploughshares (2/3),
Panache and elsewhere.

GEORGE STARBUCK'S books are
Bone Thoughts (Yale, 1960),
White Paper (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1966),
Elegy in a Country Church Yard (Pym Randall, 1975), and
Desperate Measures (forthcoming from Godine). He teaches at Boston University.

DONA STEIN received a Massachusetts Foundation for the Arts grant for 1976-77. "Children of the Mafiosi" will be out with West End Press.

RICARDO DA SILVEIRA LOBO STENBERG is a Junior Fellow at Harvard. His poems have been published in
American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, Paris Review and others.

PAMELA STEWART has published poems in
Poetry, The New Yorker and
American Poetry Review. Her first book,
The St. Vlas Elegies, will be published by L'Epervier Press this spring.

MARION TAYLOR is currently working on a new collection,
Fire At Night. Her first pamphlet is
Cocoons (Golden Scissors, 1971).

JEAN LOUISE THOMPSON teaches at the University of Illinois and is an editor of
Ascent. Her fiction has appeared in
fiction international and other magazines.

ROGER WEINGARTEN is a poet in residence at Arizona State University. His fourth book,
The Vermont Swedes, will be previewed in a forthcoming
Mississippi Review.

GINA WHITE lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts and writes critical articles and poetry. She has been published in
Modern Occasions and
Salmagundi.

RUTH WHITMAN teaches a poetry workshop at the Radcliffe Institute. This section is from her new book,
Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey, which won the John Masefield Award of The Poetry Society of America.

FREDERICK WILL edits
Micromegas and teaches Comparative Literature at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

HILMA WOLITZER'S stories have appeared in
American Review and
Esquire. Her first novel was
Ending. A second is forthcoming.