Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Charles Baxter

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Gregg Rosenblum

Assistant Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Associate Poetry Editor

Susan Conley

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Editorial Assistants: Elizabeth Dresner, Colleen Hubbard, and Carolyn Rathjen.
Fiction Readers: Nicole Hein, Kris Fikkan, Amy Shellenberger, Nicole Vollrath, Darla Bruno, Laurel Santini, Emily Doherty, Eson Kim, Joseph Connolly, Kathleen Stolle, Elizabeth Pease, Billie Lydia Porter, Michael Rainho, Karen Wise, Tammy Zambo, Debra DeFord, and Wendy Wunder.
Poetry Readers: Brian Scales, Christopher Hennessy, Renee Rooks, Tracy Gavel, Jessica Purdy, Jennifer Thurber, Michael Carter, Paul Berg, Michelle Ryan, Aaron Smith, January Gill, and Tom Laughlin.

CONTRIBUTORS

jill bossert was a digger on archeological sites in England, created a comic strip for adolescents, did storyboards for Ken Russell's
Altered States, and lived at the Society of Illustrators, where she curated exhibitions and wrote books on the subject of American art for reproduction. As the Philip Guston Fellow at Columbia University, she wrote a novel about a suburban woman and an abstract expressionist in 1958. Her story "The Dig" will soon appear in
Ontario Review.

michael byers is the author of a collection of short stories,
The Coast of Good Intentions (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). A former Stegner Fellow, he has also received awards from the Whiting Foundation and the Henfield Foundation. He lives in Seattle.

peter ho davies'swork has appeared in
The Atlantic, Harper's, The Paris Review, and
Story, and has been selected for
Prize Stories 1998: The O. Henry Awards and
The Best American Short Stories 1995 and
1996. He is the author of the collections
The Ugliest House in the World and the forthcoming
Equal Love, both published by Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Arts.

doug dorst is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1997. His stories have appeared in
ZYZZYVA, Gulf Coast, and
CutBank. He lives in San Francisco.

rob evans has exhibited his work internationally, and his paintings can be found in the permanent collections of many museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His paintings have also been featured in a number of magazines and journals, including
American Artist and
The Gettysburg Review, and on numerous covers for books, including Charles Baxter's novel
Shadow Play. Evans lives near Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two children.

emily hammond is the author of a short story collection,
Breathe Something Nice (University of Nevada Press). She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and has recently completed a novel.

mabelle hsueh lives and writes in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

james morrison teaches film at North Carolina State University. His work appears in
Crescent Review, Florida Review, and
Prism International, among many other quarterlies, as well as in the Lambda Award-winning anthology
Wrestling with the Angel (Riverhead, 1995). He is also the author of a memoir to be published by St. Martin's Press.

antonya nelson is the author of three short story collections,
The Expendables, In the Land of Men, and
Family Terrorists, and three novels,
Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and the forthcoming
Living to Tell. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Telluride, Colorado, and teaches creative writing in Warren Wilson College's M.F.A. program, as well as at New Mexico State University.

stewart o'nan'sfirst story collection,
In the Walled City, won the 1993 Drue Heinz Prize. This April, Holt released his latest novel,
A Prayer for the Dying. Next year Doubleday will publish his nonfiction history of the Hartford Circus Fire.

hilary rao received a 1998 fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She holds an M.F.A. in writing and literature from Bennington College and lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. "Every Day a Little Death" is her first published story.

elwood reid is the author of the novel
If I Don't Six, which was published by Doubleday in 1998. His short story collection,
What Salmon Know, will be published this fall by Doubleday, with a novel,
Golden Heart, to follow in 2000. He is a frequent contributor to
GQ magazine.

joan silber is the author of the novels
In the City and
Household Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her story collection,
In My Other Life, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books. The recipient of grants from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Warren Wilson College's M.F.A. program.

elizabeth tippens is the author of a novel,
Winging It (Putnam/Riverhead). Her short stories have appeared in
Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan, and the anthology
Voices of the Xiled (Doubleday), and her nonfiction has been published in
Rolling Stone, Playboy, and elsewhere. She lives with her husband, David, and her son, Henry, in New York City.