Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

James Randall

Fiction Editors

DeWitt Henry

Tim O'Brien

Associate Fiction Editor

David Gullette

CONTRIBUTORS

M.M. ANDERSON is a discovery of Tim O'Brien's. She currently lives in Texas.

JOHN ASHBERY'S current book is
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Brooklyn College.

ANNE BARBERNITZ teaches in the writing program at Emerson College.

ANNE BERNAYS lives in Cambridge, Mass. Her current novel is
Growing Up Rich. The section printed here is from her new novel,
The School Book.

STEVE BLEVINS lives in Cambridge and is a discovery of Denise Levertov's.

HAROLD BOND has published in many magazines and has several books. His newest collection,
The Way It Happens to You is in press.

JEAN BURDEN has published poetry in
Saturday Review, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly and many others; her book,
Naked as Glass (October House) is in its second printing. She is Poetry Editor of
Yankee magazine.

STEPHEN G. COLLINS is interested in filmmaking and poetry.

LEO CONNELLAN lives in Connecticut and is the author of
Crossing America (Penmaen Press).

WILLIAM DORESKI'S latest book is
The Testament of Israel Potter. He teaches in the Goddard Writing Program.

KIM FREILICH has published in several magazines and currently lives in Los Angeles.

JULIANNE GAVIN is living in New York and hoping to get into a writing colony.

DONNA GORDON is currently working on an M.A. at Brown University. She is a George Starbuck discovery.

JIM HARRISON is a novelist, essayist and poet. He lives in upper Michigan.

JOHN IRVING has published several novels and will be teaching at Mt. Holyoke College this year.

PEGGY JANEY works at a children's advocacy organization in Boston and is planning to move to the West Coast. She is a discovery of George Starbuck's.

BILL KNOTT'S newest book is
Selected/Collected Poems (Sun Press).

KEVIN KUSINITZ is a poet at Emerson College.

WENDY LAMB is an assistant managing editor in the children's department of a New York publisher. This is her first published story.

DENNIS LEARY is a poet at Emerson College.

RUTH LEPSON has published in
Women Poems, Maio, Blacksmith Anthology, The Real Paper and others, and at present lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

MIRIAM LEVINE'S latest book is
To Know We Are Living (Decatur House Press). A selection from her next book is included in
The Pushcart Prize: II.

LARRY LEVIS is the winner of last year's Lamont Poetry Prize. His new book
The After Life is forthcoming from the Univ. of Iowa Press.

DAVID LEVITEN lives in Florida and has appeared in several magazines.

LYN LIFSHIN has edited an anthology of mother and daughter poems, called
Mothers, Daughters, due from Beacon Press in early 1978.
Leaning South, her latest book, is just out from Red Dust.

RICHARD LOURIE is a novelist, poet, critic and translates from the Russian.

THOMAS LUX'S most recent book is
The Glassblower's Breath (Cleveland University Poetry Series).

JOHN MAHNKE studied with Charles Simic at University of New Hampshire.

DIANE MARCOTTI is one of the editors of
The Emerson Review.

CLEOPATRA MATHIS will have poetry appearing in
American Poetry Review and other magazines.

GAIL MAZUR is the hostess for the poetry readings at the Blacksmith House in Cambridge. Her first book of poems,
Nightfire, will be published in the spring by Alice James Books.

MICHAEL MAZUR is an artist living in Cambridge, Mass., and exhibits at Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, and Robert Miller Gallery, New York City.

THOMAS MCAFEE teaches at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He has published several books of poems, a novel and short stories.

ANNE S. PERLMAN has published in
The Paris Review, Madamoiselle, and in other periodicals. She has also been a reporter for
The San Francisco Chronicle and
The Paris Herald Tribune.

JACK PULASKI won a Fels Award for an earlier section of
Chekhov Was A Doctor, which was also included in
The Pushcart Prize: I. He teaches at Goddard.

KENNETH REXROTH recently spent another year in Japan. He is well known for his essays, translations, autobiography and poems. His most recent book of poems is
The Silver Swan.

TIM REYNOLDS has several books of poetry and his work has appeared in many magazines. He is now living in Ohio where he has just translated Moliere's
Tightwad.

CHARLES SIMIC heads the writing program at the University of New Hampshire. He has published several books of poetry.

MARCIA SOUTHWICK has published in
American Poetry Review, Ohio Review, New Letters, Ploughshares. Her First book is tentatively titled
What the Trees Go Into.

SUR STANDING will be in New Mexico in the fall at the Wurlitzer Foundation. She is a discovery of George Starbuck's.

JANET THOMAS lives in the state of Washington. She is a discovery of Kenneth Rexroth's.

RICHARD TILLINGHAST has published a book
Sleep Watch and appeared in several magazines.

AMMELEISE WAGNER is a Thomas Lux discovery. She currently lives in New York.

MICHAEL WATERS'
Fish Light was published by Ithaca House in 1975. His poetry has appeared in
American Poetry Review and other places.

PETER WILD'S latest book is
House Fires from the Greenhouse Reyiew Press.