Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Directors
DeWitt Henry
Peter O'Malley
Coordinating Editor for This Issue
Leonard Michaels
Managing Editor
Jennifer Rose
CONTRIBUTORS
At 68, Mary Ward Brown will have her first collection of stories,
Tongues of Flame, published by E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence this July. Her work appeared in
Best American Short Stories, 1984. She lives in Browns, Alabama.
Rosellen Brown's most recent novel,
Civil Wars (Knopf) and an earlier book,
Tender Mercies, are both now issued in paperback by Penguin in the Contemporary American Fiction Series. She lives in Houston.
Robert Cohen lives in New York and teaches at SUNY-Stonybrook. His stories have appeared in
Iowa Review, Massachusetts Review and
Ascent. This story is excerpted from a novel-in-progress,
The Organ Builder.
Carol Cosman co-edited
The Penguin Book of Woman Poets. She translated Marthe Robert's
The Old and the New (University of California Press) and is currently translating the rest of Jean-Paul Sartre's book, from which this is excerpted.
Louise Glück's most recent book is
Triumph of Achilles. She teaches at Williams College.
Brenda Hillman's
White Dress (Wesleyan) won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award. She has just finished
Fortress, a second collection. She teaches at St. Mary's College of California at Moraga.
Rhoda Huffey is a writer who lives in California.
Jeff Hush is a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.
August Kleinzahler lives in San Francisco and recently won a CCLM/GE Award.
Fran Lerner is a printmaker who is presently living and teaching art in Berkeley. She has previously worked for the Maryland Arts Council and the D.C. Commission for the Arts and Humanities. Her prints and drawings have appeared in numerous exhibitions.
Phillip Lopate's new novel,
The Rag Merchant, will be published by Viking in March, 1987. His latest book is a collection of personal essays,
Bachelorhood. He teaches at the University of Houston.
Thomas McGuane lives in Montana with his family.
Leonard Michaels teaches at Berkeley and is the author of short-story collections,
Going Places and
I Would Have Saved Them If I Could, and a novel,
The Men's Club (now a film from his script).
Silvia, a memoir, is in progress.
Sue Miller lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has published stories in
Ploughshares as well as in
The Atlantic, The North American Review and
Mademoiselle. Her first novel,
The Good Mother, was published this May.
Oscar Pemantle has been studying the ideas in this essay with Sir Isaiah Berlin. He directs Black Pine Circle, an educational institution in Berkeley, California.
Mary Peterson's
Mercy Flights came out with the University of Missouri Press in 1985. Her stories have appeared in
Ms., Story Quarterly, Fiction International and
North American Review, as well as winning O. Henry and Puschart prizes.
Edgar Poma lives in California. "Bresh" originally appeared in
The Three-penny Review, Summer 1982.
C. E. Poverman lives and works in Tucson. His latest novel,
Solomon's Daughter (Viking) is now out in the Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series. He has just finished a long novel.
David Reid is a contributor to
Vanity Fair, University Publishing (of which he is executive editor), and other magazines. With Leonard Michaels, he co-edited
Under Eastern Eyes, an anthology of writing about civilization on the West Coast since 1835 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987).
Danny Romero was born in South Los Angeles. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and now lives and writes in the Bay Area.
Roger Salloch lives in Paris. He is currently at work on a feature film, "Le Printemps de Ginka." Principal photography is scheduled to begin in Poland early in 1987.
Gary Soto's new book,
Small Faces, a collection of essays about marriage and fatherhood, is published by Arte Publico/University of Houston. He is at work on a novel called
Tall Dog.