Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

James Randall

Associate Editor

Joanne Randall

CONTRIBUTORS

SHARI BERKOWITZ is an editor of the
Emerson Review.

ANNE BERNAYS is finishing her latest novel,
The School Book, and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

HAROLD BOND, author of
Dancing on Water (Cummington Press), teaches poetry workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

PHILLIP BOOTH is working on his sixth book.

EMILY CHATFIELD is a student in the Goddard MFA program and works at Harvard University.

DOUGLAS DELANEY formerly worked at the Grolier Bookshop in Cambridge, Mass. His work has appeared before in
Ploughshares.

WILLIAM DORESKI teaches in the Adult Degree Program at Goddard College.

ANDRE DUBUS'S latest collection is
Adultery and Other Choices. He is teaching at Brandeis University.

ERICA FUNKHOUSER lives in Essex, Massachusetts, and teaches at North Shore Community College. Her poems have appeared in
Dark Horse, Green House, The Little Magazine and
The Paris Review.

PETER GURNIS is enrolled at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

STRATIS HAVIARAS novel
When The Tree Sings (1979) has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work in progress is entitled
Two Islands.

AMANDA HOLMES is the Creative Writing Coordinator at Emerson College and teaches a course there in fiction writing.

FANNY HOWE'S next book,
Poem From a Single Pallet, is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press.

DAVID IGNATOW'S
Open Between Us, a selection from his essays, interviews and reviews will be published early next year by the University of Michigan Press.
Sunlight: A Sequence for My Daughter will be published as a chapbook by BOA Editions (Al Pouling, ed.) about the same time.

COLETTE INEZ was born in Brussels, Belgium and now lives in New York City. She has been widely published and anthologized, and her most recent book is
Alive and Taking Names (Ohio University Press).

MIRIAM LEVINE has published widely and lives in Arlington, Ma.

LARRY LEVIS is working on a third book of poems and teaches at the University of Missouri in Columbia. His second book,
The Afterlife, won the 1976 Lamont Poetry Award.

THOMAS LUX'S most recent book,
Sunday (Houghton Mifflin), is just out and reviewed in this issue of
Ploughshares. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence.

DEREK MAHON, one of Ireland's leading poets, has spent this Summer in the United States teaching at Wake Forest.

CLEOPATRA MATHIS has been widely published in magazines and has a poem in
Pushcart Prize IV. Her first book,
Aerial View of Louisiana, is published this Fall (Sheep Meadow Press).

MICHAEL MAZUR is a painter and printmaker whose work has been widely exhibited. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

GERALD MCCARTHY is living in Lakeville, New York.

GINNY MACKENZIE'S poems have appeared in a number of magazines. She is working on an MFA at Goddard College.

ELIZABETH MCKIM has recently published
Burning Through (Wampeter Press). She teaches in Boston.

IFEANYI MENKITI is an Ibo poet who teaches philosophy at Wellesley College.

GEOFFREY MOVIUS is Director at the Ossabaw Foundation. He has taught at Tufts University and has published widely.

CAROL MUSKE, author of
Camouflage (University of Pittsburgh Press), has a new book coming out this Fall.

JEAN NORDHAUS is a poet living in Washington, D.C. who has published in a number of journals. She is currently poetry editor of
Washington Review.

RAY RONCI is a student and teacher at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

MARCIA SOUTHWICK teaches at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Her poems have been widely published and she has work forthcoming in
Poetry and
Five Missouri Poets (Chariton Review Press).

MEGAN STAFFEL has been studying at Iowa. She has appeared before in
Ploughshares.

RONALD SUKENICK'S piece in this issue of
Ploughshares is from a novel coming out in late November from the Fiction Collective.

DEBORAH TALL has spent over five years in rural Ireland. She has poems forthcoming in
Poetry, Iowa Review and
Pequod.

JAMES TATE'S new book
Riven Doggeries has recently been published by Ecco Press. The piece in this issue is from a journal he kept in Spain entitled
The Sun's Pets.

JUDITH THOMPSON is currently living in Rockport, Massachusetts. This is her first national appearance.

RICHARD TILLINGHAST, author of
Sleep Watch, had recently completed a new collection of poems, some of which are appearing in
Paris Review, Missouri Review, Floating Island, and
New Letters. He is teaching this year at Sewanee, Tennessee.

LEWIS TURCO directs the Program in Writing Arts at SUNY College at Oswego. His seventh collection of poems is a chapbook,
A Cage of Creatures (Banjo Press), and he has another collection,
The Complete Melancholick, scheduled for publication soon (Bieler Press).

RICHARD YATES'S latest novel is
A Good School. He is working on a group of longer stories.