Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editors for This Issue

James Alan McPherson

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor

Susannah Lee

Editorial Assistant

Eileen Pollack

CONTRIBUTORS

Gina Berriault's novels,
Conference of Victims and
The Son are being reissued by North Point Press, which has also published
The Infinite Passion of Expectation: Twenty-five Stories and a new novel,
The Lights of Earth.

Robert Boswell's collection of stories,
Dancing in the Movies, is the 1985 winner of the Iowa School of Letters Award and will appear early next year. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Andre Dubus's ninth book,
The Last Worthless Evening, a collection of three novellas, is forthcoming from Godine in 1986. He was a recipient last year of an NEA Fellowship in fiction.

Tess Gallagher's stories have appeared in
Ontario Review, New Yorker, North American Review, Ploughshares and others. Her third book of poems,
Willingly, recently appeared from Graywolf. She will coedit the Winter 1986 issue of
Ploughshares with Madeline DeFrees.

Benjamin Huang is a 29 year old Chinese-American writer, recently graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is living in Connecticut. This is his first published story.

Alan Lebowitz teaches in the English Department at Tufts and is the author of the novel,
Climbing Willie's Ladder, and a book on Melville,
Progress Into Silence. This story is excerpted from a new novel,
Greenhorns.

James McCulla graduated recently from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and returned to Westover, West Virginia, the region about which he writes. This is his first published story.

Stephen Minot's books include
Chill of Dusk, Ghost Images, and
Surviving the Flood, all novels, and
Crossings, a collection of stories. Mr. Minot taught at Trinity College from 1959 to 1981. In 1982 he resigned from teaching to write full time. He and his wife live in Connecticut and Maine.

W. Cotter Murray's novels are
Michael Joe (Appleton) and
A Long Way From Home (Houghton Mifflin). He teaches at the University of Iowa.

Pamela Painter's collection of stories,
Getting to Know the Weather, is just out from the University of Illinois Press. She lives in Boston.

Jonathan Penner's story collection,
Private Parties, published by University of Pittsburgh Press as the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, has just appeared in paperback from Avon. His other books are
Going Blind, a novel and
The Intelligent Traveler's Guide to Chiribosco, a novella.

Maura Stanton has recently had stories in
Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Louisville Review, and
Crazyhorse. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and is the author of
Molly Companion, a novel.