Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Coordinating Editors for This Issue

James Alan McPherson

DeWitt Henry

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Associate Poetry Editor

Joyce Peseroff

Assistant Editor

David Daniel

Office Manager

Jessica Dineen

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Thanks this issue to:

Colleen Westbrook; our editorial interns Janet Choi and Lev Grossman; and our fiction readers Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Greg Beato, Jane Blevin, Kevin Supples, Catherine Morlino, Alyssa Grikscheit, Stephen Burns, KAthleen Inman, Audrey Glassman, Win Pescosolido, Kai Maristed, Timothy Lemire, Andrew Murphy, Terry Culver, Kathryn Herold, Elizabeth Detwiler, and Mariette Lippo.

CONTRIBUTORS

Diana Abu-Jaber has lived in both Jordan and America, and is of Arab-American extraction. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She has had work in
M.S.S., Western Humanities Review, Pig iron Press, The Seattle Review, The Beloit Fiction Journal, and elsewhere. She has recently completed a fiction collection, as well as a novel about an Arab-American family living in upstate New York: an essay collection is in progress.

Louis Berney was born and reared in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma. His fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Story, and
The Antioch Review. His first book, a collection of stories, will be published next spring by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

Robert Boswell has published two novels,
The Geography of Desire and
Crooked Hearts, and one collection of stories,
Dancing in the Movies. He is an Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University, and also teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program. He lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Telluride, Colorado, with his wife Antonya Nelson and their daughter Jade.

Marina Budhos's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in
The Literary Review, Yellow Silk. ACM. The Caribbean Writer, Quarry West, and other publications. Awarded Yaddo's 1989 Granville-Hicks Fellowship for Younger Writers, she teaches writing and world literature at Eugene Lang College, and is currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories.

Sam Cornish's memoir,
1935, will be published by Ploughshares Books this fall. He is the author of
Songs of Jubilee(Unicorn Press),
Grandmother's Pictures (Avon), and
Your Hand in Mine (Harcourt Brace). He teaches Black Studies at Emerson College and is currently working on an anthology of essays about the poet Langston Hughes (University of Michigan Press).

Kim Edwards has spent the past three years living and traveling in Asia. She taught for two years in Malaysia and currently lives in Odawara, Japan. Her stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in several literary magazines, including
The North American Review, Iowa Woman, River City, and
Michigan Quarterly Review. Her story "Sky Juice" won the 1990 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.

Stanley Forman's "Soiling of Old Glory" was taken in April 1976 during an anti-busing demonstration in Boston. In 1977, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize, Forman's second-the first time the Pulitzer was awarded in consecutive years to the same photographer. After sixteen years with
The Boston Herald, Forman moved to Boston's Channel 5, WCVB-TV, in 1983.

G. W. Hawkes received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and is now an Assistant Professor of English at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He is Associate Fiction Editor for
High Plains Literary Review. His work has appeared in
The Atlantic, GQ, Missouri Review, High Plains, and other magazines.

Garrett Hongo is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. Recipient of the Lamont Poetry Prize and a Discovery
The Nation Award, as well as two NEA Fellowships, he is currently a Guggenheim Fellow. His books are
Yellow Light (Wesleyan, 1982) and
The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988). His poems and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including
The New Yorker, Antaeus, Field, Ohio Review, and
The American Poetry Review. "Kubota" is an excerpt from his work-in-progress,
Shining Wisdom of the Law: Japanese Americans and Redress.

Robert Ivry's education began when he left school in 1978 and, on a whim, moved to New Orleans, where he shucked oysters on Bourbon Street. Raised in Wayne, New Jersey, he later formalized his studies at Michigan State University and the University of Iowa. He currently lives in Oakland, California, where he is a frequent contributor to
The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Don Lee writes fiction reviews for
The Harvard Book Review. The son of an American diplomat, he spent his formative years in Seoul and Tokyo.

Vicki Lindner's novel,
Outlaw Games, was published by The Dial Press in 1982. Her short stories have appeared in many magazines
: The Paris Review, The Mississippi Review, Crazy Horse, Fiction Network Magazine, and, most recently, in
Margin, New York Woman and
The Kenyon Review (Fall 1990). She teaches writing at The University of Wyoming.

Daniel Tyree McElrath was born and raised in upstate New York. He received his graduate degree from Emerson College, where he subsequently taught literature for four years. He is currently teaching English and history at The McDuffie School in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Katherine Min is a journalist and fiction writer. Her most recent stories have appeared in
Special Report: Fiction, River Styx, The Dominion Review, and
The Bridge. She is currently working on a novel about a Korean orphan, adopted by Americans, who goes back to Seoul in search of her birth mother.

Jeannette K. Miyamoto was born and raised in East L.A. She lived in Japan for several years and is a graduate of International Christian University in Tokyo and the University of Iowa. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Chris Offutt was born and raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. He spent seven years traveling and has worked over sixty jobs, including carpenter, painter, driver, boat guide, landscaper, warehouse worker, and ranch hand. His collection of short stories will be published by Random House next autumn. He currently lives on the Iowa River with his wife and son.

George Packer's
The Village of Waiting was published in 1988 by Vintage Departures. A novel.
The Half Man, will appear next spring from Random House. His short stories have come out in
Ploughshares (Vol. 15/2&3) and
The Virginia Quarterly.

Alberto Alvaro Ríos's most recent books are
The Lime Orchard Woman (Sheep Meadow) and
The Warrington Poems (Pyracantha Press, limited edition). He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Walt Whitman Award, the Western States Book Award for Fiction, and three Pushcart Prizes. Presently a Professor of English at Arizona State University and on the Board of Directors of AWP, his new book,
Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses, is due out from W.W. Norton this fall.

Carol Roh-Spaulding is a Ph.D. student and graduate assistant in English at the University of Iowa. Her stories have appeared in
The Beloit Fiction Journal and in
The Luxury of Tears, an anthology of stories published by the National Society of Arts and Letters.

Arnold E. Sabatelli is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. He recently received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. His work has appeared in
Melus and
The Mississippi Review.

Etsuko Takahashi was born in Yamanashi, Japan, in 1967. She received her AA in English from Sophia College in Japan, and then transferred to the University of Iowa, where she is finishing up her coursework in Communication Studies and in the Teacher Education Program. She will start her graduate work this fall in Asian Civilizations.

Haruhiko Yoshimeki was born in Odawara, Japan, in 1957.
Louisiana Pile Driving, an autobiographical novel, was published in Japan by
Gunzo magazine in March 1989 and then as a book by Kodansha in September 1989. The book included another novel.
Zipangu, which received
Gunzo magazine's New Novelist Award in 1986. Yoshimeki now lives in Tokyo. Much of the credit for the appearance of these excerpts goes to Japanese critic Hideyo Sengoku. This is the first publication of Yoshimeki's work in the United States.