Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Coordinating Editors for This Issue
Rita Dove
Fred Viebahn
Executive Director
DeWitt Henry
Managing Editor / Associate Fiction Editor
Don Lee
Associate Poetry Editor
Joyce Peseroff
Assistant Editor
David Daniel
Founding Publisher
Peter O'Malley
Thanks this issue to:
Colleen Westbrook; our interns Greg Beato, Jane Blevin and Stephen Burns; and our readers Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Sara Rath, Elaine Delehant, Billie Ingram, Tom Laughlin, Alyssa Grikscheit, Karen Voelker, Rafael Campo, Audrey Glassman, Danielle McCarthy, Catherine Morlino, Christopher Wysocki, Elizabeth Detwiler, Carol Guarante, Doina Iliescu, and Jim Mulhern.
CONTRIBUTORS
Stephen Ajay was educated at the University of Michigan, and is Professor of English at the California College of Arts and Craft. His books of poetry include
Abracadabra and
The Whales Are Burning, both published by New Rivers Press. His poems have appeared in
The Wisconsin Review, New York Quarterly, Poetry Now, Confrontation, and elsewhere. He has spent two of the past three years studying Tibetan Buddhism in Nepal and India.
Dick Bakken, director of the revived Bisbee Poetry Festival in Arizona (Aug. 17-19), has poems in
Ironwood, Yellow Silk, Poetry Flash, Puerto Del Sol, Americas Review, Editor's Choice II, and a new book out,
Feet with the Jesus, from Lynx House Press. "Learning to Drive" recently won the third-place prize in the annual Billee Murray Denny competition sponsored by Lincoln College, and will appear in its forthcoming anthology
Angela Ball's poetry has appeared in
Grand Street, Partisan Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, The Denver Quarterly, 2Plus2, Northwest Review, Boulevard, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Her poem-sequence, "Four Poems for Anton Chekhov," was co-winner of this year's Long Poem Prize, awarded by
The Malahat Review. A full-length collection,
Kneeling Between Parked Cars, is scheduled for Spring 1990 publication by Owl Creek Press.
Lisa Bernstein is Assistant Director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. The author of
The Transparent Body (Wesleyan, 1989) and
Anorexia(Five Fingers, 1985), she has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of
Field, Caliban, Calyx, and
Yellow Silk. She is a jazz singer, songwriter, and technical writer.
Earl S. Braggs earned his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Norwich University and teaches at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, NC. "The Birth of Tally's Blues" is from a recently completed manuscript,
Circling the Dancer.
Cyrus Cassells is the author of two books of poetry,
The Mud Actor, a 1982 National Poetry Series winner, and the forthcoming
Down From the Houses of Magic. His work was anthologized in
Under 35: The New Generation of American Poets.
Marilyn Chin is a poet and translator. She immigrated to the U.S. when she was six years old. Her first book of poems.
Dwarf Bamboo, was nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewer's Award in 1987. She has received numerous awards in poetry, including an NEA Fellowship, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, and the Mary Robert Rinehart Award in Poetry. She is an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at San Diego State University.
Peter Cooley is the author of four books of poems, the most recent being
The Van Gogh Notebook (Carnegie-Mellon, 1987). His work appears in
New American Poets of the 80's and in
The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets. He teaches creative writing at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Jamie Diamond is a fiction writer and journalist who lives in Santa Monica, CA.
Mark Doty's second book,
Bethlehem in Broad Daylight, is forthcoming from David R. Godine in September. He teaches at Goddard College and in the Vermont College MFA Program.
Martín Espada is the author of
The Immigrant Iceboy's Bolero (Waterfront Press) and
Trumpets From the Islands of Their Eviction (Bilingual Press). He has been awarded a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and the PEN/Revson Fellowship for his manuscript
Rebellion Is the Circle of a Lover's Hands, forthcoming this year from Curbstone Press.
Julie Fay divides her time between France and North Carolina. This summer she'll be working on a new book at the Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. She has work currently in
Translation and
Prairie Schooner. Her volume
Portraits of Women will be published by Ahsahta Press. The two poems in this issue are from her new collection,
Heading for the Sky.
Anita N. Feng's poetry has appeared in
Black Warrior Review, Nimrod, and
The Northwest Review. She received the Pablo Neruda Prize for poetry in 1989 for excerpts from a manuscript-in-progress.
The Ten Gates.
Maria Flook's "The Cheaters' Club" is the title story of her new collection. Two of her stories recently appeared in
The Northwest Review. Her second volume of poems,
Sea Room, is forthcoming from Wesleyan in the fall of this year. She teaches at Warren Wilson College.
Chris Gilbert's first book,
Across the Mutual Landscape (Graywolf Press), received the 1983 Walt Whitman Award. He is now completing a second manuscript of poems.
Marilyn Hacker is the author of six books of poetry, most recently
Going Back to the River (Random House, 1990) and
Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (Arbor House, 1986). She guest-edited
Ploughshares Vol. 15, No. 4.
Jane Hirshfield's most recent books are
Of Gravity & Angels (Wesleyan, 1988) and a co-translation,
The Ink Dark Moon (Scribner's, 1988). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards, and her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Cynthia Hogue's collections of poems are
The Woman in Red (Ahsahta Press, 1989) and
Where the Parallels Cross (Whiteknights Press). Her work has appeared recently in
The American Poetry Review, Ironwood, How(ever), and
Central Park. She has received an NEA Fellowship for 1990.
Andrew Hudgins is currently the Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. He has published two books:
Saints and Strangers (Houghton Mifflin, 1985) and
After the Lost War (Houghton Mifflin, 1988).
Colette Inez teaches at the Writing Program at Columbia University. Her latest collection of poems is
Family Life, from Story Line Press, which is also publishing her
New & Selected Poems next year. She is presently at work on a prose memoir.
Lisa Koger is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a 1989 James Michener Award recipient. Her stories have appeared in
Seventeen, The American Voice, Kennesaw Review, and other magazines. "The Retirement Party" is part of a collection entitled
Farlanburg Stories, due out from W.W. Norton in July 1990.
Rika Lesser is a poet and translator of Swedish and German literature and Co-Chair of the PEN Translation Committee. Among her books are
Etruscan Things (Braziller Poetry Series, 1983), and
Rilke: Between Roots (Princeton, 1986). The poems printed here are from
All We Need of Hell, a manuscript-in-progress.
Timothy Nolan is a lawyer with the firm of O'Connor & Hannan in Minneapolis. His poetry has appeared in
The Nation.
Eileen Pollack's stories have appeared in such journals as
Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review, and
The Agni Review, and in
The New Generation, a fiction anthology from Doubleday. She teaches writing at Harvard and recently finished her first novel,
Paradise, New York.
David Ray's most recent book is
The Maharani's New Wall, poems about India (Wesleyan, 1989).
Sam's Book (also Wesleyan) won the Maurice English Poetry Award in 1988, and a book of transcreations of ancient Indian love lyrics will be published in 1990 by Copper Canyon Press. He is a Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Steven Schwartz has recent stories in
Antioch Review, The Literary Review, The Missouri Review, and
Mid-American Review. He is the winner of the 1988 Nelson Algren Award and the author of
To Leningrad in Winter, a collection of stories.
Laurie Sheck's book of poems,
Io At Night, was published by Knopf in February. She currently teaches at Rutgers University.
Betsy Sholl has published three collections of poetry with Alice James Books, most recently
Rooms Overhead, 1986. She teaches at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, where she lives, and has just finished a new manuscript called
The Red Line.
Kathleen Spivack has published in over 300 anthologies and magazines, including
The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and Harper's. Her books are
Flying Inland (Doubleday, 1973),
The Jane Poems (Doubleday, 1974),
Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn (Apple-wood Books, 1981),
The Beds We Lie In: New and Selected Poems (Scarecrow Press, 1986), which was a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and
The Honeymoon (Graywolf Press, 1986), a book of short stories.
Alison Stone received degrees in creative writing from Brandeis University and NYU. Her poems have appeared in
Poetry, The Paris Review, The New Statesman, and a variety of other publications. She has work forthcoming in
Crosscurrents, Raccoon, and several anthologies.
Deborah Tall's recent books are
The Island of the White Cow: Memories of an Irish Island (Atheneum) and a chapbook of poems,
Come Wind, Come Weather (State Street Press). A new book of non-fiction, a meditation on the sense of place, will be published by Knopf. She edits
Seneca Review.
Eric Trethewey lives in Catawba, Virginia, and teaches at Hollins College. His new book of poems,
Evening Knowledge, is forthcoming this year from Cleveland State University Poetry Center.
Marilyn Nelson Waniek's third book of poems,
The Homeplace, will be published in 1990 by L.S.U. Press. The three poems published here are from a collection-in-progress. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
Carolyne Wright is in Bangladesh on a 1989-90 Fulbright Research Fellowship, completing her translation project with Bengali women writers. In addition to four poetry collections, the latest of which is
From A White Woman's Journal (Water Mark Press Award Series), her poems, articles, and translations from the Spanish and Bengali have been widely published, most recently in
NER/BLQ, Poets & Writers, Iowa Review, Chelsea, City Lights, and
Encounter (U.K.).
Linda Stern Zisquit was born in Buffalo, NY, and is a graduate of Tufts University, Harvard University, and the Writing Program at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is presently writing, translating, and teaching in Jerusalem, Israel, where she lives with her husband and five children.