Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Margot Livesey

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Gregg Rosenblum

Associate Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Associate Poetry Editor

Susan Conley

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Assistant Fiction Editors: Jay Baron Nicorvo and Nicole Kelley.
Editorial Assistants: Merry Pool and Marissa Lowman.
Proofreader: Megan Weireter.

Fiction Readers: Erin Lavelle, Simeon Berry, Wendy Wunder, Michael Rainho, Eson Kim, Cortney Hamilton, Christopher Helmuth, Megan Weireter, Hannah Bottomy, Jeffrey Voccola, Coppelia Liebenthal, Laura Tarvin, Leslie Cauldwell, Lisa Dush, and Susan Nusser.
Poetry Readers: Simeon Berry, Scott Withiam, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Sean Singer, Joanne Diaz, Erin Lavelle, Jennifer Thurber, and Tracy Gavel.

CONTRIBUTORS

jeffery renard allen is the author of the novel
Rails Under My Back, which won
The Chicago Tribune's Heartland Prize for Fiction, and the collection of poems
Harbors and Spirits. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives in New York City, where he is an associate professor of English at Queens College and an instructor in the graduate writing program at The New School. His forthcoming books include a second collection of poetry,
Stellar Places, and a short novel,
Radar Country.

amy bloomis the author of three books of fiction and a forthcoming book of nonfiction,
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction. Her essays and short stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Story, Zoetrope, The Atlantic Monthly, and other publications.

ron carlson'smost recent story collection is
At the Jim Bridger; his novel
The Speed of Light will be published next year.

michael dahlie's fiction has appeared in
The Kenyon Review, The Mississippi Review, and
The Southern Anthology. He lives in Brooklyn.

eric garnick received his degree in art at Antioch College and has studied at the Museum School in Boston, where he lives.  He works mainly in oil but also makes sculptures.

aleksandar hemon
was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1964,
and moved to the United States in 1992.
He is the author of
The Question of Bruno
(2000
) and the forthcoming
Nowhere Man, both from
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. He lives, plays soccer, and writes in Chicago.

deirdre mcnamer is the author of three novels, including, most recently,
My Russian. She lives in Missoula, Montana, and teaches in the University of Montana's creative writing program.

haruki murakami is the author of numerous books, including
Sputnik Sweetheart, Dance Dance Dance, and
The
Wind-up Bird Chronicle, which was a
New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2000
. This story is part of his collection
after the quake, which has just been published by Knopf. He lives near Tokyo.

peter orner is the author of
Esther Stories, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His stories have appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, The Southern Review, and
Epoch, as well as in
The Best American Short Stories 2001 and
The Pushcart Prize. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lived in Namibia from 1991-1992.

zz packer is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, Harper's, Story, and several anthologies. Her collection of short stories will be published by Riverhead Books in February 2003.

angela pneuman lives in San Francisco and works as a copywriter in the wine industry. Her fiction has appeared in
New England Review, The Iowa Review, Puerto del Sol, and other literary magazines, and she was a Stegner Fellow and Marsh McCall Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University. She is finishing a collection of short stories and is at work on a novel.

sharon pomerantz is a graduate of the University of Michigan's M.F.A. program. Her short fiction has appeared in
The Black Warrior Review, The Colorado Review, and
The Massachusetts Review. Her story "Shoes" was broadcast nationwide on NPR's
Selected Shorts program in 1998. She has a story forthcoming in
The Michigan Quarterly Review and is currently at work on a novel.

jay rubin teaches Japanese literature at Harvard. In addition to two novels by Soseki Natsume, he translated Haruki Murakami's
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle and
Norwegian Wood. Harvill Press (UK) published his
Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words earlier this year.

joan silber is the author of a story collection,
In My Other Life, and three novels,
Lucky Us, In the City, and
Household Words, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and
The Pushcart Prize XXV. She teaches in the M.F.A. programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Warren Wilson College.

lily tuck has published three novels, including
Siam or The Woman Who Shot a Man (1999), which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and most recently a story collection,
Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived (HarperCollins). Her short fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, Bomb, The Paris Review, and other magazines.

peter turchi is the author of four books, including the forthcoming
Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, and co-editor with Charles Baxter of
Bringing the Devil to His Knees: The Craft of Fiction and the Writing Life. He teaches in and directs the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

jonathan wilson's novel
A Palestine Affair will be published by Pantheon next spring and followed by his book of stories
An Ambulance Is on the Way: Stories of Men in Trouble. He is Chair of the English department at Tufts University.