Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor
Rosellen Brown

Executive Director
DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor & Fiction Editor
Don Lee

Poetry Editor
David Daniel

Assistant Editor
Jessica Dineen

Editorial Assistant
Jodee Stanley

Founding Publisher
Peter O'Malley

Interns: Angela Pogany, Joanna Yas, Katherine Reed Ives, and Matt Jones. Poetry Readers: Renee Rooks, Bethany Daniel, Susan Rich, Tom Laughlin, Jason Rogers, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Rachel Piccione, Karen Voelker, and Linda Russo. Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Michael Rainho, Stephanie Booth, Jodee Stanley, Esther Crain, Karen Wise, Tanja Brull, Christine Flanagan, Lee Harrington, David Rowell, Maryanne O'Hara, Barbara Lewis, Holly LeCraw Howe, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Kim Reynolds, and Elizabeth Rourke.  Phone-a-Poem Coordinator: Joyce Peseroff.

CONTRIBUTORS

faith adiele's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ms., Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (W.W. Norton, 1994), SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, and Testimony (Beacon Press, 1995). She works as an administrator at Radcliffe College, and is currently writing a memoir that explores Nigerian/Scandinavian identity.

charles baxter is the author of three books of stories, most recently A Relative Stranger (W.W. Norton), and two novels, First Light (Viking/Penguin) and Shadow Play (Norton). He teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor.

suzanne berne is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Threepenny Review, Ms., and The New York Times Magazine. She is working on a novel.

frederick busch's latest book is The Children in the Woods: New & Selected Stories, published by Ticknor & Fields. His recent novels are Long Way from Home and Closing Arguments. He is the Fairchild Professor of Literature at Colgate University.

rafael campo, who was named The Kenyon Review's Emerging Writer of the Year, is a resident in medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His first book of poems, The Other Man Was Me, won the 1993 National Poetry Series open competition and was recently released by Arte Público Press. He is currently at work on a collection of essays and a second book of poems.

michelle cliff is Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College. She is the author most recently of the novel Free Enterprise, published by Dutton.

lisa cohen lives in New York City. She has written about film for The Village Voice and about books for the Voice Literary Supplement.

jane creighton has published essays in The American Voice, Gulf Coast, Mother Jones, and the anthology Unwinding the Vietnam War. Her collection of poems, Ceres in an Open Field, was published by Out & Out Books. "Brother" is from her new manuscript, My Home in the Country.


frank desanto spent seven years in educational publishing in New York. He now teaches at the University of Michigan, where he completed the M.F.A. program as a Javits Fellow, and where "Out of Control" was granted a Hopwood prize in 1994. It is his first published essay.

stephen dunn's New & Selected Poems: 1974-1994 was recently published by W.W. Norton, which also released his Walking Light: Essays & Memoirs in 1993. He teaches at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey.

joseph featherstone is in charge of a new urban teacher education program at Michigan State University. He has been a school reformer, a political activist, and a literary critic, as well as an editor of The New Republic. His recent writing includes poetry, as well as essays.

susan jane gilman, a fiction and nonfiction writer, has published previously in Ploughshares, Story, The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Newsday. She earned her M.F.A. at the University of Michigan, where she won three Hopwood Awards, including one for the essay published in this issue. She is at work on a novel.

albert goldbarth, a recent recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, will be publishing a new book of essays this fall: Great Topics of the World (David R. Godine). In 1993, Across the Layers: Poems Old and New was issued by the University of Georgia Press.

rodger kamenetz is a poet and writer who teaches at Louisiana State University. His books include The Missing Jew: New and Selected Poems and Terra Infirma, an autobiographical meditation. Harper San Francisco recently published The Jew in the Lotus, a personal account of Jewish Buddhist dialogue.

susan lester makes her home in Tallahassee, Florida, with her husband, near her two grown sons. She is a graduate student in Florida State University's writing program and teaches English to the foreign-born. Her stories have appeared in several small magazines, including the University of Windsor Review.

frances mayes's essays have been published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The American Poetry Review, The American Scholar, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. The essay in this issue will be included in a memoir of Italy, due out from Chronicle Books in 1995. She is the author of four poetry collections and the textbook The Discovery of Poetry (Harcourt Brace).

edith milton has written reviews and critical essays for a variety of periodicals, including The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, and Witness, among other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories for 1982 and 1988.

valerie miner's latest novel is A Walking Fire (State Univ. Press of New York, 1994). Her other novels include All Good Women, Winter's Edge, Blood Sisters, Movement, and Murder in the English Department. She is also the author of Trespassing and Other Stories and Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage. She is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

kathleen norris is the author of Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Ticknor & Fields, 1993). Her next book of poems, Little Girls in Church, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1995. She lives in South Dakota.

josip novakovich's prose has appeared in Antaeus, The Paris Review, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Pushcart Prizes XV & XIX, and The New York Times Magazine. Next spring, Graywolf Press will publish his essay collection and his story collection, and Story Press his Fiction Writer's Workshop. He teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

naomi shihab nye is the editor of This Same Sky, A Collection of Poems from Around the World. Her first picture book for children, Sitti's Secrets, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, appeared from Four Winds Press in 1994. Later this year, she will publish Red Suitcase, a new book of poems (BOA Editions), and Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Far Corner Books and Eighth Mountain Press). She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

debra spark's novel, Coconuts for the Saint, will be published in the fall by Faber and Faber. Most recently, her stories have appeared in Passages North, Epoch, and Agni.

charles wiese is an artist living in Houston, Texas. Formerly employed as a research scientist and aerospace engineer, he recently completed his M.F.A. in photography at the University of Houston. He has a particular interest in the histories of flight and technology and their roles in Western cultural formations. He has published one artist's book, Deportment, and is currently working on his second, The Fully Abridged Dictionary of the English Language.

s. l. wisenberg has published in several genres in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Tikkun, The Miami Herald, and many anthologies. She teaches at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. "Holocaust Girls/ Lemon" is from a book-in-progress made up of pieces of fiction and nonfiction.