Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Sue Miller

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor & Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Peter O'Malley

Staff Assistants: Barbara Lewis and Stephanie Booth.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Karen Wise, Barbara Lewis, Maryanne O'Hara, Holly LeCraw Howe, Christine Flanagan, Michael Rainho, Tanja Brull, Phillip Carson, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Erik Hansen, Kimberly Reynolds, and David Rowell. 
Poetry Readers: Barbara Tran, Linda Russo, Tom Laughlin, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Tanja Brull, and Jason Rogers. 
Phone-a-Poem Coordinator: Joyce Peseroff.

CONTRIBUTORS

gerry bergstein is a Boston-based painter. His work has been exhibited in numerous gallery and museum shows in Boston, New York, Chicago, Geneva, Switzerland, and elsewhere. The painting reproduced on the cover was completed in the spring of 1993, while he was the artist-in-residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

wendy counsil's fiction and poetry have appeared in
The Amherst Review,
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, and
The Hawaii Review, among other magazines. Her work is forthcoming in
The Amaranth Review, The Chiron Review, and
Free Lunch. She lives in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, where she is currently at work on her second novel.

janet desaulniers's fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, The North American Review, and once before in
Ploughshares, among other publications. A collection of her short stories is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

michael dorris is the author of two novels,
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water and, with his wife, Louise Erdrich,
The Crown of Columbus; a children's book,
Morning Girl; and several works of nonfiction, including
The Broken Cord. His first collection of short stories,
Working Men, will be published this fall, and will include both "Shining Agate" and "Earnest Money," which was published in
Ploughshares last spring.

peter gordon's work has appeared in
The Yale Review, The New Yorker, The North American Review, The Antioch Review, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. He lives in Framingham, Massachusetts, with his wife, Raquel, and sons, Daniel and Jonathan.

robin hemley is the author of
All You Can Eat, a collection of stories (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992), and the novel
The Last Studebaker (Graywolf Press, 1992). A new volume of short stories,
The Big Ear, will be published by Graywolf next spring. He is Associate Professor of English at UNC-Charlotte, where he teaches creative writing.

fred g. leebron's stories have appeared in
The North American Review, The Iowa Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. In 1993-94, he will be a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

laura glen louis received a
Nimrod/Hardman Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction in 1990 for her story "Verge." She is working on a short story collection.

eileen mcguire's stories have appeared in the anthology
Delphinium Blossoms (Delphinium Books, 1990),
The American Literary Review, and
Glimmer Train. She lives in Los Angeles.

t. m. mcnally received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1990, and is most recently the author of a novel,
Until Your Heart Stops.

mary mcgarry morris is the author of the novels
Vanished and
A Dangerous Woman, both of which were published by Viking.
Vanished was nominated for the National Book Award in 1988 and for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1989.
A Dangerous Woman was chosen by
Time magazine as "one of the best five novels published in 1991," and was named Novel of the Year by the Associated Press Editors.

ann packer's fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, The Missouri Review, The Indiana Review, Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards, and elsewhere. Her collection of short stories will be published by Chronicle Books in 1994. A recent recipient of an NEA Fellowship, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.

g. travis regier has worked as a fry cook, teacher, book reviewer, and technical writer. His literary writing has appeared in
Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, National Forum, The American Scholar, Amazing Stories, Aboriginal Science Fiction, The Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, and other magazines.

elizabeth tallent divides her time between Little River and Davis, California, and teaches at the University of California, Davis. The author of two collections of stories,
Time with Children and
In Constant Flight, and a novel,
Museum Pieces, her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, Esquire, Grand Street, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.
Honey, a new collection of short stories, is due out in November from Alfred A. Knopf.

jonathan wilson's book of short stories,
Schoom, was recently published in Great Britain by Lime Tree. His first novel is forthcoming next year from Secher & Warburg. His stories and essays have appeared in
The New Yorker, Tikkum, The Boston Review, and elsewhere.