Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Tobias Wolff

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor & Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

Joyce Peseroff

Office Manager

Renee Rooks

Assistant Fiction Editor

Debra Spark

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff Assistant: Phillip Carson.
Assistant Proofreader: Holly LeCraw Howe.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Karen Wise, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Phillip Carson, Holly LeCraw Howe, Christine Flanagan, Win Pescosolido, Paul Brownfield, Michael Rainho, Erik Hansen, Molly Lazarotta, Thomas Olofson, Thom Shaw, and Kathryn Herold. 
Poetry Readers: Renee Rooks, Jason Rogers, Karen Voelker, Tom Laughlin, Jenny Cronin, Tanja Brull, Sandra Yannone, Rafael Campo, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, and Ed Charbinnier. 
Typesetting: Gian Lombardo and InText Publishing Services.

CONTRIBUTORS

Susan Bergman has recently completed a Ph.D. in Literature at Northwestern University. "Imago" is part of her first book, tentatively entitled
Shameless, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Current poems and essays appear in
Antaeus, North American Review, Pequod, and
The Pushcart Prize XVI. She lives in Barrington, Illinois, with her husband and four children.

Mary Bucci Bush is the author of a collection of short stories,
A Place of Light (William Morrow, 1990). Her stories have appeared in several literary journals. She currently teaches creative writing at Memphis State University.

Dan Chaon has published stories in
TriQuarterly, Story, Crazyhorse, and other magazines. He lives in Cleveland and is completing a collection of short stories.

George Cruys's stories have appeared in TriQuarterly, Epoch, and
Transfer. He is currently a participant in The Writer's Film Project in Los Angeles.

Andre Dubus's most recent book is
Broken Vessels, published by David Godine, which has just been reissued in paperback.

Stuart Dybek's most recent collection of stories is
The Coast of Chicago (Vintage).

Paul Griner, a recipient of the Mary Roberts Rinehard Award, has published stories in quarterlies and in
The Graywolf Annual Four.

Susan Hubbard is the author of
Walking on Ice (University of Missouri Press), a collection of stories that received the Associated Writing Programs' Short Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in
Passages North, Green Mountains Review, Dickinson Review, Wooster Review, Albany Review, and other publications. She teaches at Cornell University.

Leon Kortenkamp received his M.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame, where he worked under the direction of Samuel Adler, Valdemar Otto, and Marc Chagall. His drawings, prints, and paintings have been published and exhibited widely, most recently in a solo exhibition at Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, where he has been a professor of art for the past ten years. He lives with his family in Belmont, California.

Martin McKinsey was recently in Greece on a grant from the Greek Ministry of Culture. His translation of
The Iron Gate by A. Frangias is being brought out by Kedros Editions.

Robert Olmstead was born and raised in New Hampshire. He is the author of
River Dogs, a collection of short stories, and two novels,
Soft Water and
A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go. His third novel,
America by Land, is forthcoming from Random House. His stories have appeared in
Story, The Graywolf Annual Four, Black Warrior Review, Granta, and
Cutbank. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and currently is Writer in Residence at Dickinson College.

Susan Power is a Native American (Yanktonai Sioux), originally from Chicago. Her stories have appeared in
Story, High Plains Literary Review, Iowa Woman, and
Other Voices. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the first recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship. She is currently a James Michener Fellow.

Mona Simpson is the author of two novels,
Anywhere But Here and
The Lost Father. Her first short story was published in
Ploughshares in 1983 in an issue edited by Raymond Carver. Other stories have appeared in
Granta, Harper's, The Iowa Review, and
The Paris Review. She is working on a new novel,
A Regular Guy, and a collection,
Virginity.

Sharon Solwitz has twice been the recipient of the Nelson Algren Award. In addition, she has won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, literary awards from the Illinois and Kansas arts councils, and a prize in the
Stand fiction contest. Her stories have appeared in
Mademoiselle, The Chicago Tribune, American Short Fiction, and other magazines. In 1991 she received a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois. New work is forthcoming in
Boulevard and with the
PEN Syndicated Fiction Project.

Jessica Treadway's collection of short stories,
Absent Without Leave, will be published this fall by Delphinium Books. Her fiction has appeared in
The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, and
The Agni Review.

Vassilis Tsiamboussis's first book,
The Vespa and Other Provincial Stories, was published in Athens in 1990. He lives in the town of Drama, in northern Greece.

Christopher Zenowich is the author of a collection of stories,
Economies of the Heart, and a novel,
The Cost of Living. He is currently finishing a new novel,
The Knuckleball Pitcher's Guide to Low-Fai Living. He lives in Morris, Connecticut, with his daughter.