Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Directors
DeWitt Henry
Peter O'Malley
Coordinating Editors for This Issue
Tim O'Brien
DeWitt Henry
Henry Bromell
Associate Editors
James Randall
Ellen Wilbur
CONTRIBUTORS
HENRY BROMELL'S book of stories,
The Slightest Distance, was the 1974 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. He has been teaching at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop.
DEIRDRE BURT is a Ploughshares first. She lives in California, where she writes comic books for "reluctant readers." Though this is her first published fiction, she has written two scripts that were produced for the University of Michigan Television Center.
GE0FFREY CLARK is Co-Director of the Writing Program at Roger Williams College, and a frequent contributor to
Ploughshares (1/2, 1/3, 2/1).
JAMES CRUMLEY, having taught at Montana, Arkansas, Colorado State, and Wichita State, is due back at the U. of Montana this fall. He has published stories in
Aspen Leaves and
California Quarterly, and has two novels from Random House,
One to Count Cadence and
The Wrong Case.
HALLVARD DAHLIE is Head of the Department of English at the University of Calgary and author of
Brian Moore (Studies in Canadian Literature, Copp Clark Publishing Co., 1969).
JOHN DOMINI, born 1951, has published fiction in
The Transatlantic Review, and essays on new writers in
Fusion, The Boston Globe and
The Boston Phoenix. He has an M.A. from John Hopkins, teaches English at Newbury Junior College, and edits Kite Books.
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT is a story-teller, critic and poet who teaches at Syracuse University. His books are
Among the Dangs and
An Hour of Last Things (stories);
From The Berkeley Hills (poems);
In The World, David Knudsen, Park Tilden Village, and
Muriel (novels);
A Piece of Lettuce and
Conversations (essays). He recently completed a new novel,
Michael of Byzantium.
SEYMOUR EPSTEIN has published a collection of short stories and six novels, including
Leah, The Dream Museum, and
Looking For Fred Schmidt. A seventh,
Game With Mirrors (portions of which appear here), is in progress. He teaches at the University of Denver.
DEWITT HENRY has published fiction, criticism and poetry in
Transatlantic Review, Harbinger, Aspect, Mississippi Review, Aldebaran, and others. "An Interview with Richard Yates" (with Geoffrey Clark) appeared in
Ploughshares 1/3.
MAXINE KUMIN'S fiction includes
Through Dooms of Love, The Passions of Uxport, The Abduction, and
The Designated Heir. She won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for
Up Country: Poems of New England. Her most recent book of poems is
House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate (Viking, 1975).
MARY LAVIN'S story here, cut down from her early novel,
Mary O'Grady, is previously unpublished in this country, and appears by her permission.
STEPHEN MINOT teaches at Trinity College at Hartford. His short fiction has appeared in
The Atlantic, Harpers, Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Quarterly Review of Literature, Playboy and others, and has been included in the
O. Henry and Martha Foley collections. He is the author of a novel,
Chill of Dusk (Doubleday, 1964) and a collection of stories,
Crossings (U. of Illinois Press, 1975).
TIM O'BRIEN is author of
Northern Lights, a novel, and
If I Die In A Combat Zone, a war memoir. His fiction and articles have appeared or are forthcoming in
Redbook, Playboy, Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Massachusetts Review, Penthouse, and the 1976
O. Henry Prize Stories. This story is the opening passage of his new novel,
Going After Cacciato, scheduled for publication next year by Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence.
JAMES RANDALL is publisher of The Pym Randall Press, Professor of English at Emerson College, and a continuing editor of
Ploughshares.
MEREDITH STEINBACH is a Ploughshares First from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
ELLEN WILBUR lives and writes in Cambridge.
RICHARD YATES is the author of
Revolutionary Road (1961),
A Special Providence (1969), and
Disturbing the Peace (1975), as well as a collection of stories,
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1962, o.p.). A new novel,
The Easter Parade, is forthcoming from Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence.