Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Raymond Carver

Managing Editor

Susannah Lee

CONTRIBUTORS

Max Apple is the author of
The Oranging of America (1976),
Zip (1978).
Free Agents will be published by Harper & Row in May 1984. He teaches at Rice University, Houston.

Jamie Diamond lives in Santa Monica, California. This is her first published story.

Barbara P. Erdle's wide-ranging jobs have included interior design and editing philharmonic programs. This is her first published story.

Tess Gallagher's fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, Antaeus, North American Review and others. Her third book of poems,
Willingly, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. She teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Syracuse University.

Donald Hall will publish a collection of his essays on baseball and other sports,
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, with North Point Press late in 1984. Remember:
you read it here first.

Jocelyn Hausmann lives in Missoula, Montana, with her husband and two children and runs the basic composition program at the University of Montana.

William Kittredge's short story collection,
The Waterfowl Tree, is out recently from Gray Wolf Press. He teaches at the University of Montana.

Lynda Lloyd is a freelance writer who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Her first published short story appeared in
Prize Stories 1983 O. Henry Awards. She is currently at work on a novel.

Susan R. Lytle shares a home/studio in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, artist Alfredo Arreguin, and their daughter, Lesley Rialto Lytle-Arreguin.

Jay McInerney is a University Fellow in the English Department at Syracuse University. "Amanda" is from his novel
It's Six a.m. Do You Know Where You Are? another section of which recently appeared in
The Paris Review.

Joyce Carol Oates's most recent novel is
Mysteries of Winterthurn. She teaches at Princeton.

Tim O'Brien's most recent novel is the National Book Award winner,
Going After Cacciato. "Quantum Jumps" is adapted from his upcoming novel,
The Nuclear Age.

Sandra Scofield, who sometimes worked with gifted children's writing, is writing a novel about the 1968 student strikes in Mexico City, and other events in Latin America.

Mona Simpson is completing her first novel
Lawns. She is a Senior Editor of
The Paris Review.

David R. Young's stories have appeared in
CutBank and
Indiana Review. He was awarded first prize in the
Indiana Review fiction contest for 1983. He teaches at the University of New Orleans.

Robley Wilson, Jr. edits
The North American Review and teaches at the University of Northern Iowa. His latest volume of stories,
Dancing for Men (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press) won the Drue Heinz Prize.

Tobias Wolff is the author of a collection of short stories,
In the Garden of North American Martyrs. He teaches at Syracuse University.