Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Guest Editor
Richard Ford
Editor
Don Lee
Poetry Editor
David Daniel
Assistant Editor
Jodee Stanley
Founding Editor
DeWitt Henry
Founding Publisher
Peter O'Malley
Editorial Assistants: Heidi Pitlor, Maryanne O'Hara, and Nathaniel Bellows.
Interns: Paul Reilly and Monique Hamzé.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Emily Doherty, Anne Kriel, Karen Wise, John Rubins, Craig Salters, Loretta Chen, Barbara Lewis, Michael Rainho, Todd Cooper, Holly LeCraw Howe, David Rowell, Kevin Supples, and Tammy Zambo.
Poetry Readers: Michael Henry, Jessica Purdy, Brijit Brown, Lori Novick, Ellen Scharfenberg, Tom Laughlin, Rich Morris, Lisa Sewell, Bethany Daniel, and Renee Rooks.
CONTRIBUTORS
richard bausch's short stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, and other magazines. His 1984 novel
The Last Good Time was recently made into a movie, written and directed by Bob Balaban and released by Samuel Goldwyn. This year, The Modern Library published
The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch. His seventh novel,
Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and all the Ships at Sea, will appear from HarperCollins this fall.
ann beattie is the author of the short story collections
Distortions, Secrets and Surprises, The Burning House, Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories, and
What Was Mine, and the novels
Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, Love Always, Picturing Will, and, most recently,
Another You. She and her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry, now split their time between Maine and Key West.
leslie mckenzie bienen, a fiction writer and poet, has begun a collaborative nonfiction project on refugees, traveling last year to Somalia and Mozambique, with the photographer Fazal Sheikh. In recent years, she has taught in Bangkok, New York, and elsewhere, and has trained and exercised horses on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound. She received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and is currently studying to be a veterinarian.
bo caldwell was a Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her stories have been published in
Story, Epoch, Image, and elsewhere, and her nonfiction appears in
The Washington Post Magazine. She lives in Northern California.
alan cheuse is the author of the novels
The Grandmothers' Club and
The Light Possessed, and the story collection
The Tennessee Waltz, among other works of fiction. He is also the author of a memoir,
Fall Out of Heaven. He serves as a book commentator for NPR's evening newsmagazine "All Things Considered" and is the producer and host of The Center for the Book/NPR short story magazine for radio "The Sound of Writing." His latest book is
Talking Horse: Bernard Malamud on Life and Work, edited with Nicholas Delbanco.
shane dubow is an adventure-trip guide and freelance writer who lives, most of the time, in Chicago. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in
Playboy, Men's Journal, Seventeen, The Chicago Review, Summit, Chicago Magazine, The Boston Phoenix, The Chicago Reader, and other publications.
tess gallagher is the author of a book of short stories, a collection of essays, and eight books of poetry. A new story collection,
At the Owl Woman Saloon, will be published in 1997 by Scribner. She wrote the introduction to
All of Us: The Collected Poems of Raymond Carver, which will be released in Great Britain by Harvill this fall, and her translations-with Adam Sorkin and the author-of the Romanian poet Liliana Ursu,
The Sky Behind the Forest, is forthcoming from Bloodaxe this fall. She is completing the third year of a grant from the Lyndhurst Foundation, and will hold the Edward F. Arnold Visiting Professor of English Chair at Whitman College for the 1996-97 academic year.
andrew sean greer recently received his M.F.A. from the University of Montana. He lives in Missoula, Montana, and has just finished a novel entitled
Blue Lusitania.
alyson hagy is the author of two collections of fiction,
Madonna on Her Back (Stuart Wright) and
Hardware River (Poseidon Press). Her stories have most recently appeared in
Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and
Mississippi Review. She currently teaches at the University of Wyoming.
jane kent, a nationally recognized artist, has exhibited her work most recently at Hirschl & Adler, modern, New York. Her work is in the collections of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, and Princeton University. She currently teaches at Columbia University.
dale ray phillips's stories have appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, Story, and several literary magazines. He has work forthcoming in
Esquire, and his stories have also been anthologized in
Best American Short Stories and
New Stories from the South. He teaches at Clemson University, where he is completing a book of stories entitled
What It Cost Travelers.
ira sadoff is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently
Emotional Traffic, as well as the forthcoming
Delirious: New and Selected Poems (Godine, 1997). He is also the author of a novel,
Uncoupling, and a collection of stories, poems, and essays,
An Ira Sadoff Reader. He has published more than two dozen stories in national literary magazines and a number of anthologies, including
The O. Henry Awards. He teaches at Colby College and Warren Wilson College.