Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Mary Gordon

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Susan Conley

Assistant Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Editorial Assistants: Thomas McNeely, Jessica Olin, Debra DeFord, and Tom Herd.
Fiction Readers: Heidi Pitlor, Billie Lydia Porter, Emily Doherty, Michael Rainho, Leah Stewart, Tammy Zambo, Monique Hamzé, Craig Salters, Karen Wise, Ellen Tarlin, Holly LeCraw Howe, and David Rowell.
Poetry Readers: Paul Berg, Richard Morris, Caroline Kim, Michael Henry, Renee Rooks, Jessica Purdy, Charlotte Pence, R. J. Lavalee, Tom Laughlin, Bethany Daniel, Lori Novick, and Ellen Scharfenberg.

CONTRIBUTORS

alice adams was born in Virginia, grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and graduated from Radcliffe. Since then, she has lived mostly in San Francisco. She has published one travel book about Mexico, four short story collections, and ten novels, the most recent of which is
Medicine Men, which was published this spring by Knopf. Another novel and a new story collection are due out next year.

e. m. broner is the author of nine books, including
A Weave of Women, The Telling, The Women's Haggadah, Ghost Stories, and
Mornings & Mourning. She has received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Wonder Woman Award. She lives in Manhattan with her artist husband, Robert Broner.

bliss broyard was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia's creative writing program. Her fiction has appeared in
Grand Street and
The
Pushcart Prize. Her first collection of short stories is scheduled to be published by Knopf in the spring of 1998. At that time, an essay of hers will also appear in the anthology
Twenties in the Nineties (Houghton Mifflin). She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

susan daitch is the author of a collection of short stories,
Storytown, and two novels,
L.C. and
The Colorist. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in
The Voice Literary Supplement, Bomb, The Iowa Anthology of Transgressive Fiction, Avant-Pop, an anthology edited by Larry McCaffery,
The Pushcart Prize, and
The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Literature. Her work was the subject of the Fall 1993 issue of
The Review of Contemporary Fiction.

tim gautreaux'sfiction has appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, GQ, Best American Short Stories, and
New Stories from the South. He has taught at Southeastern Louisiana University since 1972. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a National Magazine Award for fiction, he was selected to be the John and Renee Grisham Visiting Southern Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi in 1996.
Same Place, Same Things, his collection of stories, was published last year by St. Martin's Press, which will also release his forthcoming novel and another collection of stories.

patricia hampl is the author of the memoirs
A Romantic Education and
Virgin Time. She has also published two volumes of poetry, and short stories in various magazines. She has written a screenplay based on
Spillville, her book about Dvorak in America, and is finishing
I Could Tell You Stories, essays on memory and imagination. She is Regents' Professor at the University of Minnesota.

ethan hauser was born and raised outside of Boston. He now lives in New York City, where he is writing a novel and a collection of short stories. His fiction has appeared previously in
Confrontation and is forthcoming in
Esquire.

lucy honig's short stories have appeared recently in
DoubleTake, The Gettysburg Review, and
Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards. For a number of years, she was the director of a local human rights commission in upstate New York. Currently, she teaches in the graduate program in international health in Boston University's School of Public Health. "Police Chief's Daughter" is from
Citizens Review, a novel in progress.

carole maso is the author of
Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, Ava, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat, and
Aureole. She teaches at Brown University.

joyce carol oates is the author, most recently, of the novel
We Were the Mulvaneys and the story collection
Will You Always Love Me? Her forthcoming novel is
Man Crazy, a chapter of which, "Easy Lay," appeared in
Ploughshares. She lives and teaches in Princeton, New Jersey.

richard panek's short fiction has won a PEN Award and been broadcast on National Public Radio. He is the author of two nonfiction books: a cultural history of the telescope, to be published in 1998, and
Waterloo Diamonds, a social history of an Iowa factory town and its minor league baseball club. He often writes for
The New York Times and is a contributing writer at
Elle and
Mirabella. He lives in New York City.

david plante was born in a working-class, French-speaking parish in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1940. Though he has now lived abroad in England, Italy, and Greece for much longer than half his life, he feels he still resides spiritually in that small parish, where his principal work-the Francoeur novels-is centered.

helen schulman is the author of a collection of stories,
Not a Free Show (Knopf), and a novel,
Out of Time (Atheneum). Her new novel,
The Revisionist, will be published by Crown in May 1998. She is the co-editor, with Jill Bialosky, of
Wanting a Child, an anthology of essays that will be published next year by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She has written or co-written five commissioned screenplays. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Division of Columbia University.

maxine swann lives in Paris, where she is completing her graduate studies in French literature at the Sorbonne and writing her first novel.

eileen tobin's last published story was in 1943, when she was a student in a writing seminar taught by the late novelist Millen Brand. In 1994, Tobin began writing again under the tutelage of another novelist, Mary Gordon, who, while fulfilling a public service condition of a grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, conducted a writing workshop for elders in New York City's Upper West Side. "Goodbye, Tinker Bell, Hello, God" is from Tobin's memoir in progress,
Bog Oak. She is eighty-one years old.

nola tully spent several years as a photojournalist based in New York. She has worked with the Sygma picture agency, and her photos have appeared in
Newsweek, Time, Life, Paris Match, and
Stern; in exhibits; and in a book on the Gulf War. She studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and painting and art history at Hunter College, and she received her master's in writing from Columbia University. She is currently finishing her first novel. This is her first fiction publication.

meg wolitzer is a novelist whose books include
Sleepwalking and
This Is Your Life. A recipient of a 1994 fellowship in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Skidmore College, and Boston University. Her upcoming novel,
Surrender, Dorothy, will be published next year. She lives in New York City.