Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Directors
DeWitt Henry
Peter O'Malley
Coordinating Editor for This Issue
DeWitt Henry
Associate Fiction Editor
Don Lee
Managing Editor
Jennifer Rose
Office Manager
Jessica Dineen
Thanks this issue to:
Susan Whitmore, Catherine Creegan, Sharon Bogue, Bethanne T. Elion, Robert Arnay, Sydney Fadner, Sandi Tyler, Melanie Rae Thon, Mariette Lippo, Eileen Pollack, Carol Magun Feingold, Steve Dykes, Terry Culver and Lisa Shapiro.
CONTRIBUTORS
Linda Bamber teaches at Tufts University. Her writing has appeared in
The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Working Papers, Victorian Studies, The Boston Phoenix and elsewhere. She is the author of
Comic Women, Tragic Men, a book on gender in Shakespeare.
David Bowman is a professor at Philadelphia's Moore College of Art, where he has taught painting and drawing for 18 years. He received his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art. Temple University, and is represented by Roger Lapelle Gallery in Philadelphia.
Stuart Dybek is the author of
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods, a recent collection of stories from Ecco Press. He teaches in the writing program at Western Michigan University and in Warren Wilson's M.F.A. Program.
Helen Hudson's stories have appeared in
Antioch Review, Ploughshares, Mademoiselle, Sewanee Review and elsewhere, and have been selected for
Best American Short Stories and the O. Henry Awards. She is the author of five books, most recently
Criminal Trespass. Putnam's will publish her next book,
A Temporary Residence, in October.
James Kenneson's fiction, non-fiction and satires have appeared in
Harper's, Commonweal and elsewhere. His translation of
Fountain and Tomb by the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz will be published this fall by Three Continents Press. He lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico.
Don Lee received his B.A. from U.C.L.A. and his M.F.A. from Emerson College, where he now teaches. He is at work on a collection of Rosarita Bay stories called
Small Reckonings and a feature-length screenplay.
William Losinger's work has appeared in
Kansas Quarterly, South Carolina Review and elsewhere, and is forthcoming in
Dakota Review and
Cimarron Review. He lives with his wife and two sons in Hudson Falls, New York, and teaches writing at Adirondack Community College.
This is Joseph Maiolo's third appearance in
Ploughshares. Winner of a Houghton Mifflin Fiction Award for his novella
Elverno: A Tale from a Boyhood, he has also received two N.E.A. fellowships. He teaches at the University of Minnesota in Duluth.
Sharmistha Mohanty is a 1986 graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. She has recently returned to Calcutta, India, her home town, where she is at work on her first novel.
Sandell Morse recently moved to Portsmouth; New Hampshire, after spending fourteen years in the North Country of Holderness, New Hampshire. She teaches at the University of New Hampshire.
E. Annie Proulx's short stories have been published in
Esquire, Harrowsmith, Seventeen and
Gray's Sporting Journal. Heart Songs, a collection of her stories, will be published in the spirng of 1988. She is alternately working on a novel, bass fishing and clapboarding her house in Vershire, Vermont.
Gerald Shapiro teaches creative writing at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Eve Shelnutt's third collection of stories,
The Musician, was published in July by Black Sparrow Press. Her second collection of poetry,
Recital in a Private Home, will be published by Carnegie-Mellon in 1988. She teaches in the M.F.A. Program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jean Thompson has taught creative writing at the University of Illinois since 1973. She is the recipient of N.E.A. and Guggenheim fellowships. Her most recent novel is
The Woman Driver.
Melanie Rae Thon is originally from Montana. She recently won the A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Award for best fiction published by
Cutbank. She was a Massachusetts Artists Foundation finalist for fiction in 1987.
Dan Wakefield edited
Ploughshares 7/3 & 4, the tenth anniversary issue. His latest novel,
Selling Out, has been re-issued in paperback by Penguin Books.
Stephen Wolf's stories have appeared in
Shenandoah, Penthouse, Ploughshares and
The Ploughshares Reader. He is completing a story collection,
Maiden Flights. An Illinois native, he now lives on New York's Lower East Side.