Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Ellen Bryant Voigt

Editor for Criticism

Lorrie Goldensohn

CONTRIBUTORS

TOM ABSHER was one of four winners of the 1978
Nation-YMHA Discovery Awards. He lives in Vermont.

ANGELA BALL is completing a Ph.D. at University of Denver.

JANE BARNES edits
Dark Horse.

MICHAEL BENEDIKT is teaching at Boston University. His most recent book is
Night Cries (Wesleyan).

SUZANNE E. BERGER previously published under the name Suzanne Rioff. Her book,
These Rooms, will soon be published by Penmaen Press.

EAVAN BOLAND was born in Dublin, has published two books, and is a member of the Irish Academy of Letters.

KATHY CALLAWAY is an MFA candidate at the University of Montana, and has new poems in
The Nation.

ANN FOX CHANDONNET lives in Alaska.

STEVEN CRAMER lives in Somerville, Ma. and has published in
Agni Review, Poetry, and
Antioch Review.

JENNIFER CREWE is completing an MFA at Columbia and has recently published poems in
The Ohio Review.

MARY CROW lives and teaches in Colorado.

W. S. DIPIERO teaches at LSU. His first book was called
Country of Survivors, and he has completed a second collection.

STEPHEN DOBYNS teaches at Boston University. His most recent book is
Griffon (Atheneum).

JEANNE DOWD is teaching at the University of Hartford.

LORRIE GOLDENSOHN teaches at Mt. Holyoke and has written criticism for
APR, Salmagundi, Parnassus, and
Ploughshares. Her poetry was included in the 1978
Pushcart Prize.

SARAH GORHAM has published in
Antaeus, Antioch Review and
The Nation.

JORIE GRAHAM has poems in
Antaeus and
Poetry Northwest, and translations appearing in
Field, and she lives in Kentucky.

JEFFREY GREENE lives in San Francisco, and has work in
N.Y. Quarterly, Nation and
Iowa Review.

BARBARA L. GREENBERG writes poems and short stories. Her first book,
The Spoils of August, was published by Wesleyan.

LINDA GREGERSON is working on a Ph.D. at Stanford, and has published in
Field, Shenandoah, and
Ironwood.

MARILYN HACKER'S books are
Presentation Piece and
Separations.

DONALD HALL'S newest book is
Kicking The Leaves.

JIM HALL'S new book,
The Mating Reflex, is due out from Carnegie-Mellon University Press.

CAROL BAKER HANSEN'S first book ms. was a finalist in the 1978 AWP poetry competition.

MADELEINE HENNESSY has had poems in
Greenfield Review, NY Quarterly and other magazines.

MARY KINZIE has been executive editor of
Tri-Quarterly and has published criticism in
Poetry and elsewhere.

JUDITH KROLL lives in India, and has published a book of poems (In The Temperate Zone) and a book of criticism on Sylvia Plath.

ADAM LEFEVRE'S first book is published by Wesleyan.

NANCY SHERMAN LEWIS lives in Rochester, Vt.

SHARON MEYER LIBERA has published criticism in
Parnassus and poems in
I Hear My Sister Saying (Thomas Crowell).

FRAN LINDSAY lives in Iowa City.

LYN LIFSHIN'S anthology of mother and daughter poems, called
Mothers,
Daughters, was published last year by Beacon Press. Natalie Slohm Associates has recently brought out a record and chapbook collection called
Offered By Owner.

WENDY MARTIN teaches at Queens, CUNY, and edits
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

LINDA MCCARRISTON writes for the
Maine Sunday Telegram. This is her first poetry publication.

GARDNER MCFALL is a free-lance writer in Washington, D.C.
Buildings, a collection of her poems, appeared in 1977 with Tropos Press of Baltimore.

HEATHER MCHUGH'S first book is
Dangers (Houghton-Mifflin).

JANE MILLER was one of four winners of the 1978
Nation-YMHA Discovery Award.

LISEL MUELLER'S
The Private Life (L.S.U.) won the Lamont Prize. Her most recent collection is
Voices From The Forest.

PAUL NELSON is teaching at University of Colorado this year; his most recent book is
Average Nights (L'Epervier).

RICHARD NESTER is a graduate student at U.Mass. (Amherst) and attended the Provincetown Fine Arts Center.

MARY OLIVER'S new book will be called
Twelve Moons and will be published this year by Little, Brown. Her work was recently featured in
Ohio Review.

BEA OPENGART writes from Missoula, Mt.

NINA PAYNE teaches at Hampshire College. A collection of her poems for children was published by Atheneum in 1973.

PAULA RANKIN is a doctoral student at Vanderbilt. Her first collection of poems,
By The Wreckmaster's Cottage, was published by Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Press in 1977.

SUSAN IRENE REA is teaching at Drexel University.

CAROL ANN RUSSELL has poems in the
Montana Poets' Anthology: Where
We Are, and in
Poetry Northwest.

MICHAEL RYAN'S first book,
Threats Instead of Trees, won the Yale competition, and he has a second collection ready for publication.

HERBERT SCOTT is an editor of
The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry, and has recent work in
Mississippi Review and
Quarterly West.

ALAN SHAPIRO teaches at Stanford.

LAURIE SHECK has worked as an editor of
Iowa Review and has new work in
Poetry, Antioch Review and
Poetry Now.

JANE SHORE'S first book of poems,
Eye Level, won the U.Mass. Juniper Prize. She was coordinating editor of
Ploughshares 3/3&4.

DAVE SMITH'S fourth book,
Goshawk, Antelope, will be published this year by University of Illinois Press. He is director of the writing program at University of Utah.

SUSAN STEWART has published in
Poetry, APR, Poetry Northwest and
Kayak.

DONA STEIN lives in Auburndale, Mass.

DABNEY STUART is a former editor of
Shenandoah.

MARY SWANDER'S chapbook,
Needlepoint, was published by
Cut Bank's Smokeroot Press, and her poems have appeared in
Poetry, Iowa Review, Ohio Review, etc.

ELAINE TERRANOVA has an MFA from Goddard and works for a Philadelphia publishing company.

MICHAEL VAN WALLEGHEN writes from Urbana, Ill.

ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT has a Guggenheim Fellowship this year. Her first book of poems is
Claiming Kin (Wesleyan).

PETER WILD'S latest books are
Chihuahua (Doubleday) and
Health (Two Windows Press).