Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

M. L. Rosenthal

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor for This Issue

Jennifer Rose

Associate Poetry Editor

Joyce Peseroff

Assistant Editor

David Daniel

Editorial Assistant

Jessica Dineen

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff: Kevin Supples and Michael Rainho.
Editorial Interns: Margaret Bezucha, Lisa Tomlinson, and Jennifer Hill.
Typesetting: Gian Lombardo and InText Publishing Services.
Fiction Readers: Billie Ingram, Sara Neilsen Gambrill, Karen Wise, Paul Brownfield, Win Pescosolido, Mariette Lippo, and Kathryn Herold.
Poetry Readers: Karen Voelker, Ed Charbonnier, Tom Laughlin, Bethany Daniel, Sandra Yannone, Rafael Campo, Doina Iliescu, Bill Keeney, Andrea Cohen, and Mariette Lippo.

CONTRIBUTORS

Bina Agarwal is Professor of Economics at Delhi University. Currently she is Visiting Professor at Harvard University and a Bunting Institute Fellow (1989-91). Her poems have appeared in
Agni, The Monthly Review, and several Indian journals. She is completing an interdisciplinary book:
Who Sows? Who Reaps? Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Rick Bass is the author of
The Watch, a story collection (W.W. Norton), and
Winter: Notes From Montana (Houghton Mifflin). He is at work on a novel, a story collection, a novella collection, and a book about wolves in Montana, as well as an essay collection.

Robin Becker has poems forthcoming in
APR and
The Kenyon Review. She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T. and serves as Poetry Editor for
The Women's Review of Books. In 1990, the University of Pittsburgh Press published her most recent collection of poems,
Giacometti's Dog.

Joe David Bellamy is the author of the novel
Suzi Sinzinnati (Puschcart, 1989; Penguin, 1991), which was winner of the Editors' Book Award. His other books include
The New Fiction (Illinois) and
The Frozen Sea (Orchises).

Robert Bly has published two books of prose recently:
Iron John: A Book About Men and a collection of literary essays under the title
American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity. Owl's Head Press in Canada also recently published a book of poems entitled
Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly and Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge.

Lucie Brock-Broido's first book,
A Hunger, was published in 1988 by Knopf. Work from her Master Letters series and other poems have appeared in
The Paris Review. The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, and
APR. She's Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor at Harvard University.

Rafael Campo was born in New Jersey, but wants to visit Cuba someday. He was Boston University's George Starbuck Poetry Fellow for 1990-91, and currently is returning to complete his last year of medical school at Harvard. Other recent work appears in
The Kenyon Review, Graham House Review, and
Agni.

Cyrus Cassells is the author of two poetry books,
The Mud Actor, a 1982 National Poetry Series winner, and the forthcoming
Down From the Houses of Magic, and of a soon-to-be-produced play,
Soul, Make a Path Through Shouting. "Hoop Dance" is from a new manuscript-in-progress,
God Will Wink His Eye.

Andrea Cohen's poetry and fiction have appeared in
The Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and is currently working on a screenplay.

Sam Cornish lives in Boston, and is the author of
1935: A Memoir (Ploughshares Books) and three books of poems. He is the former Literature Director for the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. His book reviews have appeared frequently in
The Christian Science Monitor and other periodicals.

Gerald Costanzo's new collection of poems,
Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 1992. He lives in Harwich, MA, and in Pittsburgh, PA, where he teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.

Steven Cramer, author of
The Eye That Desires to Look Upward (Galileo, 1987), has completed a second collection entitled
The World Book. Poems from this volume have appeared in
The Antioch Review, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He teaches writing at Tufts University.

Madeline DeFrees's most recent books of poems are
Imaginary Ancestors (enlarged edition with nineteen new poems from Broken Moon Press, 1990) and a trade edition of
The Light Station on Tillamook Rock from Arrowood Books, Inc., 1991, with woodcuts by Rosalyn Richards. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 12/4 with Tess Gallagher.

Stuart Dischell's book,
Good Hope Road, was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series and will be published next year by Viking. His poems have recently appeared
Agni, The New Republic, and previously in
Ploughshares.

Rita Dove, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry and English professor at the University of Virginia, has finished a novel and a full-length play lately, but is now concentrating on poetry again. In a recent interview with
Callaloo she speaks out on issues of race and gender. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 16/1 with Fred Viebahn.

Andre Dubus has six children, is currently a MacArthur Fellow, and lives in Haverhill, MA. He has published eight books of fiction, and his book of essays,
Broken Vessels, was published by David R. Godine in June.

Russell Edson reports that he has run out of things to say about himself.

Jennifer Egan's short stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, The North American Review, Gentlemen's Quarterly, Mademoiselle, and other magazines. She previous published a story in
Ploughshares Vol. 15/2&3. She currently lives in New York, where she is at work on a novel.

Andrew Feld is a Boston area writer. "The Greek Statuette" is his first published poem.

David Ferry teaches at Wellesley College. His most recent book is
Strangers (Univ. of Chicago Press). He is working on a new book of translations and poems. He has recently completed a version of
The Epic of Gilgamesh, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

John Friedericy's portfolio of drawings was featured in
Ploughshares Vol. 1/4. His painting "Breakfast With Bonita" appeared on the cover of Vol. 14/2&3.

Carol Frost's recent books include
Day of the Body and
Chimera. New poems appear in
The Kenyon Review, APR, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, and
The Literary Review. She teaches at Hartwick College and at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and she directs the Catskill Poetry Workshop.

Alice Fulton's third book,
Powers of Congress, was published by David R. Godine in November 1990. Three poems from this book have been included in
The Best American Poetry series published by Collier Books/Macmillan. Her second collection,
Palladium, is now in its third printing.

Tess Gallagher's most recent book is
Amplitude: New & Selected Poems. A new book of poems,
Moon Crossing Bridge, is forthcoming in February of 1992 from Graywolf Press. A new paperback edition of her short story collection,
The Lover of Horses, is also forthcoming from Graywolf in March 1992. Ms. Gallagher edited
Ploughshares Vol. 12/4 with Madeline DeFrees. She lives in Port Angeles, WA, where she was born.

David Gates writes about books and music for
Newsweek. His novel
Jernigan (Knopf) appeared in June 1991. "A Wronged Husband" is his first published short story.

Celia Gilbert is the author of two books of poetry,
Bonfire (Alice James Books) and
Queen of Darkness (Viking). New work of hers will appear in
The Threepenny Review, The New Yorker, and
The Southwest Review. She lives in Cambridge, MA.

Albert Goldbarth is happy to have been in a number of earlier issues of
Ploughshares. He is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University, and his recent-most books are
Heaven and Earth (poems, Univ. of Georgia Press, 1991) and
A Sympathy of Souls (essays, Coffee House Press, 1990).

Lorrie Goldensohn, a native New Yorker, teaches at Vassar College. Her book of poems,
The Tether, appeared in 1983. Columbia University Press will publish her most recent project,
Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry, in December 1991. She has published poems, articles, and reviews in many periodicals. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 5/1 with Ellen Bryant Voigt and Vol. 6/4 with Jayne Anne Phillips.

Allen Grossman's poem "Poland of Death (III)" is part of a sequence of five poems which will appear as a whole in his forthcoming volume called
The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected (New Directions, Fall 1991).

David Gullette was one of the founding editors of
Ploughshares. His
Nicaraguan Peasant Poets From Solentiname (West End Press, 1988) showed how dirt-poor newly-literate peasants are capable of producing fine poems. He is Literary Director of The Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, and teaches writing at Simmons College, Boston.

Marilyn Hacker is the editor of
The Kenyon Review. She is the author of seven books of poetry.
Going Back to the River was published in 1990 by Random House.
The Hang-Glider's Daughter, a collection of selected and uncollected poems, will be published in England by Onlywomen Press. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 15/4, a special issue called
Diversity/Adversity.

Donald Hall published
Old and New Poems (1990) with Ticknor & Fields, the same publisher who issued
The One Day two years earlier. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 8/2&3. He lives in New Hampshire, where he makes his living as a free-lance writer.

Mark Halliday loves Bob Dylan. He (Halliday, not Dylan) teaches English at Wilmington Friends School in Wilmington, DE.
Little Star (Morrow) was a National Poetry Series selection in 1987. Big deal. Halliday likes tennis and ice cream very much, and yearns to dance to "Gimme Shelter" at a party.

Joy Harjo's most recent book of poetry is the prize-winning
In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan Univ. Press). She is at work on a new collection,
The Field of Miracles, and plays tenor and soprano sax in her band. Fanny Howe's recent publications include
The Vineyard (Lost Roads Press),
Robeson Street (Alice James Books),
The Deep North (Sun and Moon Books), and
Famous Questions (Ballantine). She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 2/1. Her latest novel is
Saving History (Sun and Moon Books).

Lynda Hull's second collection,
Star Ledger, won the Edwin Piper Poetry Prize from the University of Iowa Press, and appeared in Spring 1991. She lives in Chicago and teaches in the Vermont College MFA Program.

Ha Jin is from Mainland China and writes in both English and Chinese. His book of poems,
Between Silences, was published by the University of Chicago Press (1990). His poetry and fiction have appeared in
The Paris Review, The Boston Review, Agni, and other journals.

Mary Karr was a Bunting Fellow last year and a 1989 recipient of the Whiting Writers Award. Wesleyan published her first book,
Abacus, in 1988. She teaches in the graduate writing program at Syracuse.

Jane Kenyon's latest book is
Let Evening Come from Graywolf Press in St. Paul. She has poems forthcoming in
The Iowa Review and prose forthcoming in
Yankee.

Maxine Kumin's most recent collection of poems,
Nurture, was published by Viking/Penguin in 1988/89.
In Deep: Country Essays was published by Viking in 1987 and is now available in a Beacon paperback. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 14/1. She and her husband live on a farm in New Hampshire, where they raise horses.

Margo Lockwood has published five books, two with Alice James Books of Cambridge,
Temper and
Black Dog, and
Bare Elegy with Janus Press in Vermont. She had a secondhand bookshop for twelve years and is now a secretary at M.I.T.

Thomas Lux's latest book is
The Drowned River (Houghton Mifflin). He edited
Ploughshares Vols. 1/4 and 11/1. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Alice Mattison is the author of a book of poems,
Animals (Alice James Books), and a book of stories,
Great Wits, published by William Morrow and in paperback by Penguin. Her novel,
Field of Stars, will be published by William Morrow in 1992. Her poems have appeared in
The Massachusetts Review, The Paris Review, and
Shenandoah.

Gail Mazur is the author of
Nightfire and
The Pose of Happiness. Her third book,
The Common, is forthcoming from David R. Godine. She edited
Ploughshares Vols. 6/2 and 9/1. She is founder and Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge and will be Visiting Writer at UMass/Boston in Fall 1991.

Michael Milburn's book of poems,
Such Silence, was published by University of Alabama Press in 1989.

Leslie Adrienne Miller's books of poems include
Staying Up for Love (Carnegie-Mellon, 1990) and
No River, winner of the Stanley Hanks Memorial Award from the St. Louis Poetry Center in 1987. An NEA Fellow in 1989 and PEN Southwest Discovery Award winner in 1988, she has published poems in
APR, The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters, Quarterly West, and elsewhere.

Ruth Moritz is a graphic artist in Salina, KS, and is presently enrolled in the undergraduate creative writing program at Kansas State University. She was a 1989 recipient of a Holt Prize in Literature for undergraduate writing and is at work on her first collection of poetry,
The Habit of Stones.

Suzanne Owens, an MFA graduate of Emerson College, teaches at the University of Lowell, Anna Maria College, and Endicott College. Currently she is working on her book about Russia and her experiences in the theater. Her publications include
The Mississippi Review, Seneca Review, Long Pond Review, Fiddlehead, and others.

Pamela Painter's award-winning story collection,
Getting to Know the Weather, was published in 1985. Since then her stories have appeared in
The Atlantic, Harper's, The Kenyon Review, The North American Review, and other magazines. She is also the co-author with Anne Bernays of
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, published by HarperCollins in 1990.

Robert Pinsky teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. His two latest books of poetry,
History of My Heart and
The Want Bone, have recently been reissued in paperback by The Ecco Press.

Robert Polito is the Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at NYU. His long poem, "Evidence," has just appeared in
Best American Poetry, 1991. He is completing a biography of Jim Thompson,
Savage Art, which will be published next year by Knopf.

Eileen Pollack's first collection of short fiction,
The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories, will be published this fall by Delphinium Books. Her story "Past, Future, Elsewhere," which appeared in
Ploughshares Vol. 16/1, was selected for this year's Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Belmont, MA, and teaches at Tufts University.

David Rivard won the 1987 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for
Torque (Univ. of Pittsburgh). He is the recipient of two writing fellowships from the NEA, the most recent for 1991, and he teaches at Tufts University and in the MFA Writing Program at Vermont College.

Jennifer Rose is an editor, typesetter, and activist, and the former Managing Editor of
Ploughshares (1986-88). The recipient of a "Discovery"/
The Nation award, her work appears in the recent special issue of
Verse on "New Formalists." She lives in Waltham, MA.

M. L. Rosenthal's recent books include
The Modern Poetic Sequence, with Sally M. Gall (Oxford);
As for Love: Poems and Translations (Oxford);
The Poet's Art (Norton); and
Our Life in Poetry: Selected Essays and Reviews (Persea). His recent editions include
Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats (Macmillan);
Poetry in English: An Anthology (Oxford); and
Ploughshares, Vol. 17/1, a special issue called
Works-in-Progress.

Mark Rudman's books of poetry include
By Contraries (National Poetry Foundation) and
The Nowhere Steps (Sheep Meadow).
Diverse Voices, a book of essays, will appear in Spring 1992 (Story Line Press). His essay "Mosaic on Walking" appears in
Best American Essays, 1991.

Lloyd Schwartz is the author of
These People (Wesleyan Poetry Series) and co-editor of
Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (Univ. of Michigan Press), and was the editor of
Ploughshares Vol. 5/2. He is the current director of the Creative Writing Program at UMass/Boston, classical music editor of
The Boston Phoenix, and classical music critic for National Public Radio's
Fresh Air.

Elizabeth Searle has had fiction in
Epoch, The Indiana Review, Redbook, The Greensboro Review, The California Quarterly, Confrontation, and
The Roberts Writing Awards 1990 Annual. She's taught fiction writing at Brown University and the University of Lowell. Recently, she finished writing her first novel.

Maureen Seaton's first book,
The Sea Among the Cupboards, won the Capricorn Award and will be published this fall by New Rivers. Her second book,
Fear of Subways, published in Spring 1991, won the Eighth Mountain Press Poetry Prize. Her work appears in
The Missouri Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, and
New England Review. Diann Blakely Shoaf's first book of poems,
Hurricane Walk, is forthcoming from BOA Editions. New work has appeared or will be published in
Agni, Antioch, Boulevard, Harvard Magazine, Louisville Review, Southern Humanities Review, and
The Southern Review. She teaches at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville.

Jane Shore's most recent book,
The Minute Hand, was a 1986 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. She is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow and currently is on leave from teaching at George Washington University. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 3/3&4 with DeWitt Henry and Vol. 10/4 with Ellen Wilbur.

Charles Simic's thirteeth book of poems,
The World Doesn't End, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1990. His new collection, from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, is
The Book of Gods and Devils. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 12/3.

Jacqueline Simon's "Leaving Letitia Street" was chosen by Raymond Carver for a PEN Southwest/Houston Discovery Prize. Later, her first nationally published story was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. She is at work on a novel.

Tom Sleigh is the author of two books of poems,
After One, from Houghton Mifflin, and
Waking, published this fall by the University of Chicago Press Phoenix Poetry Series. He has work forthcoming in
Partisan Review, TriQuarterly, and
The Boston Phoenix Literary Section.

Piotr Sommer, a Warsaw-based Polish poet, is the author of several books of poems and translator into Polish of Berryman, Lowell, O'Hara, Reznikoff, and others; "A Maple Leaf" will appear in
Things to Translate, a collection of his poems to be published in England by Bloodaxe Books in 1991.

Maura Stanton's third book of poetry,
Tales of the Supernatural, appeared from David R. Godine in 1988. Her book of stories,
The Country I Come From, was published by Milkweed Editions. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 15/1. She teaches at Indiana University.

Eleanor Ross Taylor's fourth book,
Days Going/Days Coming Back (Univ. of Utah Press, 1991), includes poems previously published in
Grand Street, Seneca Review, The New Yorker, and
The New Virginia Review.

Richard Tillinghast was the 1990-91 recipient of the Amy Lowell Travel Fellowship and spent the year in County Galway, Ireland, where a new poem, "A Quiet Pint in Kinvara," has recently been published as an illustrated chapbook. He is now back at the University of Michigan, where he teaches in the MFA program. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 9/2&3 with George Garrett.

Patricia Traxler, a Bunting Institute Fellow for poetry in 1990-91, has been appointed to a second term at the institute for 1991-92. Recipient of
Ploughshares' Cohen Award for 1990 and
Cottonwood's 1990 Alice Carter Award, she is currently completing work on her third collection of poetry,
Forbidden Words, and has just finished a novel,
Earthly Luck.

Fred Viebahn, whose novels and plays in the late Sixties and Seventies propelled him to literary prominence in his native Germany, will break the near-silence he maintained during the Eighties with his soon-to-be-finished first American novel. A U.S. resident for the past fifteen years, he now lives in Charlottesville, VA. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 16/1 with Rita Dove.

Ellen Bryant Voigt's books include
Claiming Kin, The Forces of Plenty, and
The Lotus Flowers (Norton, 1987), which was given Honorable Mention by the first Poets' Prize. She is completing a fourth volume currently titled
Two Trees. Recipient of grants from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 5/1 with Lorrie Goldensohn.

Dan Wakefield's essay is from a work-in-progress on New York in the 1950s, to be published by Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence. Wakefield is a novelist and journalist whose latest book is
The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography. He edited
Ploughshares Vol. 7/3&4.

Nancy White's poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including
Ploughshares and
The Seattle Review, and are forthcoming in
Feminist Studies, The Massachusetts Review, and
The Black Warrior Review. She received her MFA at Sarah Lawrence and teaches English at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn.

Joy Williams has written three novels and two collections of stories,
Taking Care and
Escapes. She lives in Key West and Arizona.

Alan Williamson edited
Ploughshares Vol. 7/2. His books include
Presence and
The Muse of Distance (both Knopf), and
Introspection and Contemporary Poetry (Harvard). He teaches at the University of California at Davis.

David Wojahn's most recent collection is
Mystery Train (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press). He teaches in the MFA writing programs of Vermont College and Indiana University.

Carolyne Wright is a 1991-92 Affiliate at the Bunting Institute. She is completing her anthologies of Bengali women poets and writers and also a narrative of the year she spent in Chile,
The Road to Isla Negra, which received the 1990 PEN/Jerard Award. Her translations from the Chilean Spanish,
In Order to Talk With the Dead: Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier, is forthcoming from the University of Texas Press in 1992. "Woman, Money, Watch, Gun" is from a collection-in-progress, tentatively entitled
The [Not Calm But] Collected Eulene.

Franz Wright has published six books of translations, most recently
The Unknown Rilke: Expanded Edition, and eight books of poetry, most recently
Entry in an Unknown Hand (Carnegie-Mellon). His work will appear this year in David R. Godine's
New Poets of the '90s, and a new book of poetry,
The Night World & the Word Night, is forthcoming. He was a 1989-90 Guggenheim Fellow.

Sandra Yannone was a 1990 AWP Intro Award winner. Her other work has appeared in
Quarterly West and
The Allegheny Review. This year she gave readings in the Soviet Union as part of a young poets' exchange. She lives in Brookline, MA.