Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Alice Hoffman

Editor

Don Lee

Managing Editor

Gregg Rosenblum

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Associate Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Assistant Fiction Editor: Jay Baron Nicorvo.
Editorial Assistant: Olivia Kate Cerrone.
Proofreader: Megan Weireter.
Bookshelf Advisor: Fred Leebron.

Fiction Readers: Maureen Cidzik, Kathleen Rooney, Megan Weireter, Joanna Luloff, Asako Serizawa, Nicole Kelley, Simeon Berry, Wendy Wunder, Leslie Cauldwell, Eson Kim, Michelle Mulder, Matthew Modica, Christopher Helmuth, Erin Lavelle, James Charlesworth, Cortney Hamilton, Hannah Bottomy, Jeffrey Voccola, Erin Hagedorn, Patricia Reed, Scarlett Stoppa, Coppelia Liebenthal, and Laura Tarvin.
Poetry Readers: Megan Weireter, Simeon Berry, Zachary Sifuentes, Kathleen Rooney, Erin Lavelle, Robert Arnold, Joanne Diaz, Jennifer Thurber, and Chris Tonelli.

CONTRIBUTORS

elizabeth berg is the author of eleven novels, a collection of short stories, and two nonfiction books. She lives in Chicago.

peter ho davies is the author of the story collections
The Ugliest House in the World and
Equal Love. His work has appeared in
The Atlantic, Harper's, and
The Paris Review, among others, and has been selected for
The Best American Short Stories and
Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. He was recently named one of
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. He currently directs the M.F.A. program at the University of Michigan.

kim edwards is the author of the story collection
The Secrets of a Fire King, an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her stories have been performed at Symphony Space and have won many honors, including the Nelson Algren Award, the National Magazine Award for excellence in fiction, and inclusion in
The Best American Short Stories and
The Pushcart Prize anthologies. She is the recipient of a 2002 Whiting Writer's Award.

karl harshbarger lives with his wife in Germany, where he teaches English as a foreign language. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in many magazines, including
The Atlantic Monthly, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, and
Prairie Schooner.

elizabeth l. hodges has published poetry in
The North American Review, New Virginia Review, and
Connecticut Poetry Review. She has traveled extensively to Russia. She works as an attorney in New Hampshire, where she lives with her husband and son.

perri klass is a practicing pediatrician in Boston, and the Medical Director of Reach Out and Read, a national literacy program for children. Her books include
Other Women's Children, a novel,
Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training, a collection of essays, and, most recently,
Love and Modern Medicine, a collection of short stories. (Lines from
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss used by permission of Random House Children's Books.)

gregory maguire is the author of four novels, including the recent
Mirror Mirror. His first novel,
Wicked, is the basis for a new musical expected to open on Broadway this fall. Another book,
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, was adapted into an ABC movie. He has written editorials, essays, and signal reviews for
The New York Times Book Review, Boston Review, and
The Christian Science Monitor.

alexandra marshall's latest novel is
The Court of Common Pleas, which recently appeared in paperback. She has published four other novels,
Something Borrowed, Gus in Bronze, Tender Offer, and
The Brass Bed, as well as
Still Waters, a book about a New England pond. She has been a film critic for
The American Prospect and has written for many other journals, including
The Boston Globe and
The New York Times.

tom martin lives near Boston, where he is currently working on a novel.

alice mattison's story "In Case We're Separated," which first appeared in
Ploughshares, was reprinted in
The Best American Short Stories 2002. Her novel
The Wedding of the Two-Headed Woman will appear next year. She is the author of three previous novels, including
The Book Borrower and
Hilda and Pearl, three books of short stories, and a collection of poems. She lives in New Haven and teaches in Bennington College's M.F.A. program.

jill mccorkle is the author of five novels and three collections of stories, most recently
Creatures of Habit. She teaches in Bennington College's M.F.A. program and lives near Boston with her husband and two children.

abelardo morell was born in Cuba in 1948. His work has been exhibited and collected by The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and over forty other museums and institutions worldwide. He has been the recipient of several awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship. He is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

antonya nelson is the author of seven books of fiction, including
Female Trouble (Scribner, 2002). She teaches in Warren Wilson College's M.F.A. program, as well as at the University of Houston, where she shares, with her husband, Robert Boswell, the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing. She lives in Houston and Telluride.

pamela painter is the author of two story collections,
Getting to Know the Weather and
The Long and Short of It. She is also the co-author of
What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in
The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The Kenyon Review, and
Story. She has received grants from the NEA and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and has won two Pushcart Prizes. A founding editor of
StoryQuarterly, she lives in Boston and teaches at Emerson College.

grace paley is the author of
The Little Disturbances of Man, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Later the Same Day, The Collected Stories, New and Collected Poems, and a gathering of essays,
Just As I Thought. Her many honors include an NEA Senior Fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship in fiction, the Edith Wharton Award, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for short story writing, a Lannan Award, and a citation as the First Official New York State Writer.

jayne anne phillips is the author of three novels,
MotherKind, Shelter, and
Machine Dreams, and two books of stories,
Black Tickets and
Fast Lanes. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Bunting fellowships, and was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is presently Writer in Residence at Brandeis University.

sue standing's poems have appeared in many journals, including
Agni, APR, The American Scholar, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and
Southwest Review. Her most recent poetry collection is
False Horizon (Four Way Books, 2003). The recipient of grants from the NEA and the Bunting Institute, she teaches creative writing and African literature at Wheaton College, where she directs the creative writing program.

susan vreeland's novels include
Girl in Hyacinth Blue, a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year Award for 1999, and
The Passion of Artemisia, both
New York Times bestsellers.
The Forest Lover, another art-related novel, is due out in January 2004, and a story collection,
Life Studies, which includes "A Flower for Ginette," will be published in January 2005, both from Viking.