Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Ann Beattie

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Associate Editor

Jessica Dineen

Assistant Editor

Jodee Stanley

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Editorial Assistant: Maryanne O'Hara.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Michael Rainho, Karen Wise, Robin Troy, Stephanie Booth, Loretta Chen, Barbara Lewis, Will Morton, Joseph Connolly, Kevin Supples, and David Rowell.
Poetry Readers: Mathias Regan, Rebecca Lavine, Lisa Sewell, Bethany Daniel, Renee Rooks, Kathryn Maris, Tom Laughlin, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Leslie Haynes, Brijit Brown, Jenny Miller, Kimberley Reynolds, Chris Alexander, and Karen Voelker.
Intern: Nicole Beland.

CONTRIBUTORS

frederick barthelme is author of nine books, including
Moon Deluxe, Second Marriage, Tracer, The Brothers, and the forthcoming novel
Painted Desert (Viking, October 1995), from which "The Big Room" was adapted. His short fiction has been published in
Esquire, The
New Yorker, Epoch, and elsewhere. He directs the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi and edits
The
Mississippi Review.

leslee becker grew up in the Adirondacks. She was a James Michener Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa and a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Nimrod, New Letters, Sonora Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Colorado State University and is working on a collection of stories.

paul brodeur has been a staff writer at
The New Yorker for many years. His short stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Seventeen, Show, Michigan Quarterly Review, and
The Antioch Review. He is the author of a collection of stories,
Downstream (Atheneum); two novels,
The Sick Fox (Atlantic Monthly Press) and
The Stunt Man (Atheneum); and seven books of nonfiction.

tony eprile is the author of
Temporary Sojourner & Other South African Stories. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994 and is a visiting writer at Northwestern University.

laura furman was born in New York in 1945. She is the author of the novels
The Shadow Line and
Tuxedo Park and the story collections
The Glass House and
Watch Time Fly. Her fiction has been published in
The New Yorker and
Southwest Review, and her nonfiction has appeared in
Mirabella and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and son, and teaches at the University of Texas.

tess gallagher's most recent work is a book of poetry,
Portable Kisses Expanded (Capra Press, 1994). Her collection of short stories,
The Lover of Horses, was reissued by Graywolf Press in 1992. "Creatures" will appear in a collection in progress entitled
Dig Two Graves: Stories of Revenge. The book title comes from a proverb on the subject of anger: "If you contemplate revenge, dig two graves." Another story, "A Box of Rocks," appeared recently in
Story.

ray isle is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. His work has appeared in
Agni and
The Carolina Quarterly. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, he now lives in Palo Alto, where he is at work on a novel.

tom jenks is the author of a novel,
Our Happiness. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in
Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, and
Story. With Raymond Carver, he edited the anthology
American Short Story Masterpieces, and with his wife, the novelist Carol Edgarian, he is currently editing
The Writer's Life in Notebooks, Journals, and Diaries, to be published next year by Random House.

devon jersild has published her short stories in
The Kenyon Review, The North American Review, and
Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards. She lives in Weybridge, Vermont, where she is the administrative director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She has just completed a novel.

caroline a. langston was born in 1968 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, the youngest of six children. Her stories have been included in
The Gettysburg Review,
Sonora Review, and
New Stories from the American South, which is forthcoming from Algonquin Press in the fall of 1995. The recipient of an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, she has been an instructor of literature and is currently a Milton Center post-graduate fellow for 1995-96.

william henry lewis was born in Denver in 1967 and grew up in Tennessee and Washington, D.C. He is an assistant professor of English at Mary Washington College, where he teaches creative writing, and he co-directs the Reynolds Young Writers Workshops, a summer program for high school writers, at Denison University. His collection of stories,
In the Arms of Our Elders, was published in early 1995 by Carolina Wren Press, and his short fiction is forthcoming in
Speak My Name: An Anthology of Writings About Black Men's Identity and Legacy, to be released by Beacon Press in late 1995.

james lilliefors is a longtime journalist and former newspaper editor. He has been a frequent contributor to
The Washington Post and other publications, and is the author of the book
Highway 50. He was educated at the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia, and he currently lives in Naples, Florida, where he is concentrating on fiction writing. "Fugitives" is adapted from a novel in progress.

lincoln perry, a nationally known artist, has shown his work at the Tatist-cheff gallery at 50 West 57th St. in New York since 1979. A number of large commissioned paintings are on permanent display around the country. The cover painting,
Balance (oil on canvas), measures 7' x 10' and was completed in 1988. (Note: The edges of the paintingwere cropped slightly for the purpose of reproduction.)

steven rinehart divides his time between Fayetteville, Georgia, and New York City. His short fiction has appeared recently in
Story and
GQ, and is forthcoming in
Harper's. He is a 1995 recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

jessica treadway's collection of short stories,
Absent Without Leave (Delphinium Books), received the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from

Ploughshares in 1993. She is at work on a novel and teaches creative writing at Emerson College and Tufts University.

marc vassallo received a degree in architecture from Cornell University and worked as an architect, a farmer, and an editor before completing an M.F.A. in fiction at the University of Virginia. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Linda, and their two-year-old son, Nicholas. A story of his appeared recently in
Southern Exposure, and he is at work on a novel called
Adam's Garden.

david wiegand is an arts editor and book critic for
The San Francisco Chronicle, where he also writes a weekly column on the Bay Area arts and entertainment scene.