Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Maxine Kumin

Managing Editor

Jennifer Rose

Office Manager

Don Lee

Thanks this issue to:

Roland Kelts, Mary Ellen Beveridge, Sharon Bogue, Kathleen Bowden, Catherine Creegan, Kirsten Czupryna, Emilia Dubicki, Beth Elion, Carol Feingold, Anne Friedman, Kahtryn Herold, Doina Iliescu, Jean Kane, Naomi Kent, Tom Mannix, Curt Mark, Tara Masih, Jan Schmidt, Glen Shurman, Pamela Siska, Julie Sullivan, Melanie Rae Thon.

CONTRIBUTORS

Nadya Aisenberg has published two books of poetry and one of literary criticism and is co-author of
Women in Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove, to be published by University of Massachusetts Press.

John Balaban teaches at Penn State. This spring Harcourt Brace Jovanovich published his children's story,
The Hawk's Tale.

Robin Becker teaches at M.I.T. Her collection of poems,
Back Talk, was published by Alice James Books.

Suzanne E. Berger has published two books of poems,
These Rooms and
Legacies. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where she is at work on a new collection.

Philip Booth won the Maurice English Award in 1987 for his selected poems,
Relations. For many years a professor at Syracuse University, he lives in Castine, Maine.

Teresa Cader, who holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, has published poems in
TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Agni Review and elsewhere.

Anne Carpenter's first book,
Ma's Ram and Other Poems, won the 1984 Eileen W. Barnes Award and was subsequently published by Saturday Press. She raises horses in Lederach, Pennsylvania.

Naomi Feigelson Chase's 1980 collection of poems,
Listening for Water, was reissued in 1987 by Archival Press. She is also the author of two books of nonfiction,
A Child is Being Beaten and
The Underground Revolution.

Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and now lives in San Francisco. She has received N.E.A. and Stegner fellowships. Greenfield Review Press has just published her first book of poems,
Dwarf Bamboo.

Stephen Corey, associate editor of
The Georgia Review, is the author of two books of poems,
The Last Magician and
Synchronized Swimming.

Ann Darr lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and teaches at the American University in Washington, D.C. Washington Writers' Publishing House recently issued her fifth book,
Do You Take This Woman.

Patricia Dobler heads the creative writing program at Carlow College in Pittsburgh. Her collection
Talking to Strangers won the 1986 Brittingham Prize and was published by University of Wisconsin Press.

Edison Dupree lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and works as a security guard. His poems have appeared in various magazines; his collection
At Your Hanging is making the rounds of publishers. The book's title poem appeared in
Ploughshares 11/1.

Starkey Flythe, Jr., practices law in Augusta, Georgia. A 1987 N.E.A. fellow, he has had stories in the O. Henry and
Best American Short Story collections.

Erica Funkhouser teaches at Boston University's Metropolitan College. She published a collection of poems.
Natural Affinities, with Alice James Books in 1983.

Celia Gilbert is the author of
Bonfire (Alice James Books) and
Queen of Darkness (Viking). She has new work forthcoming in
Poetry.

Deborah Gottlieb Garrison is on the editorial staff at
The New Yorker, where her work first appeared last winter. She has studied with Keith Waldrop, Michael S. Harper and Katha Pollitt.

Marea Gordett's book of poems,
Freeze Tag, was issued in 1984 by Wesleyan University Press. In 1979 she was a "Discovery"/
The Nation award recipient and in 1980 she received a Pushcart Prize for a poem included in Volume 5 of
Ploughshares.

Marilyn Hacker lives in New York City. Her most recent books are
Assumptions, published in 1985 by Knopf, and Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons, from Arbor House, 1986.

Donald Hall's most recent books are a collection of essays,
The Seasons at Eagle Pond; a book of poems,
The Happy Man; and a volume of short stories,
The Ideal Bakery. He edited
Ploughshares 8/2&3.

Charles O. Hartman, author of
The Pigfoot Rebellion (Godine) and
Free Verse: An Essay on Prosody, has an Ingram Merrill grant this spring to work on a book of poems. He recently completed
Downfall of the Straight Line and a critical book,
Jazz Text: Voice and Improvisation in Poetry, Jazz, and Song.

Mary Hedin lives in San Anselmo, California. A poet and fiction writer, she is the author of
Direction and Fly Away Home.

Tony Hoagland lives in Tucson, Arizona. He received a 1987 N.E.A. fellowship and has work appearing in
Crazy Horse.

Annette Jaffee's first novel,
Adult Education, appeared in 1981 from Ontario Review Press. Putnam will publish her new novel,
Recent History, from which this excerpt is taken. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Shirley Kaufman lives in Jerusalem and visits the U.S. every year. Her most recent book of poems,
Claims, was published by The Sheep Meadow Press. The Field Translation Series has just brought out her latest volume of translations,
But What: Selected Poems of Judith Herzberg, translated from the Dutch with the poet.

Susanna Kaysen's
Asa, As I Knew Him was published last spring by Vintage Contemporaries. She is working on a second novel,
Far Afield, which will also be published by Vintage. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Jane Kenyon lives in Danbury, New Hampshire. Her newest collection is
The Boat of Quiet Hours, from Graywolf Press. She is also author of
From Room to Room and
Twenty Poems of Anna Akhmatova.

Caroline Knox of Westerly, Rhode Island, received an N.E.A. fellowship last year and has an Ingram Merrill Fellowship this year. Georgia Press published her book of poems,
The House Party in 1984.

Pulitzer Prizewinner Maxine Kumin's latest book is
In Deep: Country Essays. Her most recent book of poems,
The Long Approach, was published in 1985.
Nurture, her next collection, will appear in 1989. She served as Poetry Consultant to The Library of Congress in 1981-82.

Sharon Libera was a Fulbright Fellow in England, studied with Robert Lowell at Harvard, and writes criticism as well as poetry. She lives in western Massachusetts.

Margo Lockwood's Horse in the Attic Bookshop in Brookline Village is now a thing of the past, but her sixth book,
Left-Handed Happiness, has just been published by Dirty Dish Press, Stanford, California, on the heels of
Black Dog (Alice James Books).

Nancy Lord is the author of
The Compass Inside Ourselves (Fireweed Press), a story collection which won a 1984 Alaskan competition judged by Stanley Elkin. "Waiting for the Thaw" is from her manuscript
Alaskan Gothic, which placed second in the 1986 Associated Writing Program short fiction competition.

Gail Mazur's second book of poems,
The Pose of Happiness, was published by David R. Godine. She is Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Center in Cambridge. In 1988-89 she will be teaching at the University of Houston. She edited
Ploughshares 6/2 and 9/1.

Nora Mitchell is a graduate student in English and American Literature at Brandeis University. Her poems have appeared in
Calyx, Dark Horse and
Sojourner. Alice James Books will bring out her first book,
Your Skin is a Country, this year.

Howard Nemerov is a Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1978. University of Chicago Press has just published his twelfth book of poems,
War Stories.

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of the recent novel
You Must Remember This (Dutton) and the forthcoming collection of essays,
(Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities (also Dutton).

Carole Oles teaches at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she is preparing a new book of poems to succeed
The Loneliness Factor, Quarry, and
Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell.

Alicia Ostriker's study of the emergence of women's poetry in America,
Stealing the Language, was published in 1986 by Beacon Press, which also reissued
The Mother/Child Papers. She has published two other books of poems,
A Woman Under the Surface and
The Imaginary Lover.

Joyce Peseroff, former managing editor of
Ploughshares, is the author of
The Hardness Scale, poems, and the editor of
The Ploughshares Poetry Reader and
Robert Bly: When Sleepers Awake.

David Ray's most recent collection is
Sam's Book (Wesleyan University Press, 1987). In 1989, Wesleyan will bring out his poems about India,
The Maharani's New Wall, and, in 1988, the University of Otago Press, New Zealand, will publish his
Shaky Bridge and Other Poems of New Zealand.

Eliot Schain studied at Columbia University with Carolyn Kizer. He has poems forthcoming in
APR and
Another Chicago Magazine. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Enid Shomer's
Florida Postcards won the 1986 Jubilee Press Chapbook Competition. She is the recipient of a Florida Arts Council Grant and the Washington Prize of Word Works, Inc. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

George Starbuck teaches at Boston University and lives in Milford, New Hampshire. His new and selected poems,
The Argot Merchant Disaster, was published by Atlantic-Little, Brown. He has won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and the Prix de Rome.

Eleanor Ross Taylor's
New and Selected Poems, published by Stuart Wright in 1983, includes selections from
Welcome Eumenides and
Wilderness of Ladies. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Lewis Turco teaches at S.U.N.Y., Oswego, where he directs the Program in Writing Arts. He is the author of several collections of poems, most recently,
The Compleat Melancholick, from The Bieler Press.

Ruth Whitman is the author of six books of poetry, most recently
The Testing of Hanna Senesh, from Wayne State University Press, 1986. She is Lecturer in Poetry at Radcliffe College.