Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Alberto Alvaro Rios

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor

Don Lee

Associate Poetry Editor

Joyce Peseroff

Assistant Fiction Editors

Don Lee and Debra Spark

Office Manager

Renee Rooks

Production Assistant

Mariette Lippo

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff Assistant: Julie Trevelyan.
Typesetting: Gian Lombardo and InText Publishing Services.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Sara Neilsen Gambrill, Phillip Carson, Karen Wise, Michael Rainho, Molly Lanzarotta, Paul Brownfield, Lucy Grealy, Jim Mezzanote, Thomas Olofson, Win Pescosolido, Eric Hanson, Thom Shaw, Holly LeCraw Howe, and Kathryn Herold.
Poetry Readers: Renee Rooks, Karen Voelker, Susan Comninos, Ed Charbonnier, Jenny Cronin, Sandra Yannone, Tanja Brull, Stephen Burt, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Rafael Campo, Chad Heap, Tom Laughlin, Bethany Daniel, and Matt Marinovich.
Staff Volunteer: Eileen Harrington.

CONTRIBUTORS

Barbara Allen is a recent graduate of the University of Arizona MFA program. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her son and husband, works full-time in a library, and has work in
The Seattle Review, Fine Madness, and
NER/BLQ.

Angela Ball has received artist's fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her book,
Kneeling Between Parked Cars, was published in 1990 by Owl Creek Press. She teaches in the Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, and will be on the faculty at this summer's Catskill Poetry Workshop.

Molly Bendall's book of poems
After Estrangement will be appearing this fall from Peregrine Smith. She teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Dinah Berland's poems have recently appeared in
The Iowa Review, New Letters, The Wisconsin Academy Review, California Quarterly, The South Coast Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Her first book-length manuscript,
Places Without Walls, is currently in circulation. She works as an editorial consultant in Los Angeles.

Chana Bloch's new book of poems,
The Past Keeps Changing, will be published by The Sheep Meadow Press in 1992, and her translation (with Ariel Bloch) of the biblical
Song of Songs is forthcoming from Random House in 1993. She lives in Berkeley, California, and is Professor of English at Mills College.

Ron Carlson is the author of the collection of stories
The News of the World. He has a new book of stories,
Plan B for the Middle Class, forthcoming from W. W. Norton this summer.

Cathy Compton is a native of Anchorage, Alaska. She earned her BA from Dartmouth College and her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her poetry focuses on physical and psychological landscapes and the pioneering spirits who survive and are survived by them.

Madeline DeFrees's most recent books of poems are
Possible Sibyls (Lynx House, 1991);
The Light Station on Tillamook Rock (Arrowood Books, 1991); and
Imaginary Ancestors (Broken Moon Press, 1990). She lives and writes in Seattle, and is planning a reading tour of the east coast for Autumn, 1992.

Michael Dorris's most recent nonfiction book,
The Broken Cord (HarperCollins), won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award. He is the author of two novels,
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (Holt, Warner), and, with Louise Erdrich,
The Crown of Columbus (HarperCollins). His first children's book,
Morning Girl (Hyperion), will be published this fall, and a collection of his short fiction,
Working Men (Holt), in which "Earnest Money" is included, is scheduled for the spring of 1993.

Richard Garcia's poems have recently appeared in
The Kenyon Review, Parnassus, Mid-American Review, Seneca Review, and
Bilingual Review. He is a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for 1991.

Carmen Lomas Garza was a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence at The Mexican Museum in San Francisco from 1984 to 1987. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums, including The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, where her paintings appeared in a 1987 group exhibition called
Hispanic Art in the United States: Thirty Contemporary Painters and Sculptors.

John Frederic Garmon was born at the edge of the old U.S. Route 66 in the Texas Panhandle in 1940. After serving in the Marines, he went to college and eventually received a Ph.D. at Ball State University. His poems have appeared in
Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Kansas Quarterly, Commonweal, and other journals. He is now serving as a dean at Yavapai College, Prescott, Arizona.

Ray Gonzalez is the author of two books of poetry and the editor of eight anthologies, including
After Aztlan: Latino Poets in the Nineties (David R. Godine),
Without Discovery: A Native Response to Columbus (Broken Moon Press), and
Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Stories by Chicano Writers. He is Literature Program Director at The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Dennis Johnson's stories have appeared in several anthologies, including
The New Generation (Doubleday/Anchor), as well as in numerous literary journals, including, most recently,
The New England Review, Columbia, and
Black Warrior Review, which also awarded him their annual prize for best short story.

Wayne Johnson grew up in Minnesota and has spent many years living in the West. His stories have appeared in
The Atlantic, Ploughshares (Vol. 14/2&3),
Story, Antioch Review, and other magazines. In the summer of 1989 he was awarded a Michener Grant for work on his novel,
The Snake Game, which was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 1990. He is presently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and lives in Menlo Park, California.

Janet Kenning teaches poetry in the schools through the Iowa Arts Education/Outreach program, and attends the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Yong U. Kim graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Pennsylvania in 1990, and is currently a master's candidate in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. His most recent publication credits include
Boulevard, Carolina Quarterly, Indiana Review, and
Jacaranda Review.

William Kittredge is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Montana. His books include a collection of short fiction,
We Are Not in This Together (Graywolf, 1984), and an essay collection,
Owning It All (Graywolf, 1987). He was co-winner of the Neil Simon Award from American Playhouse for his work on the script for
Heartland, and co-editor of
The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. His book-length memoir,
Hole in the Sky, will be published by Knopf this summer.

Maxine Kumin's tenth collection of poems,
Looking for Luck, was published by W. W. Norton in February;
In Deep: Country Essays was reissued in a Beacon paperback in 1988. She and her husband live on a farm in New Hampshire, where they raise horses.

David Lee lives quietly in St. George, Utah, with Jan, Jon, and Jodee. His recent books are
Day's Work (Copper Canyon Press, 1990) and
Paragonah Canyon, Autumn (Brooding Heron Press, 1990).

Dana Levin grew up in Lancaster, California, in the Mojave Desert. Currently she lives in New York City, where she just finished her last semester in NYU's Creative Writing Program. Last year she was awarded an Academy of American Poets Prize.

Larry Levinger has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Playboy Editorial Award for nonfiction. He has been a contributing editor to
GEO Magazine, and his poems have appeared in
The Chariton Review, Cutbank, and
The Sow's Ear. He has written a biography of Thomas Merton, and is at work on a novel. He teaches writing at Sonoma State University.

Dionisio D. Martínez was born in Cuba. His book
History as a Second Language won the Ohio State University Press/
The Journal Award in Poetry.
Dancing at the Chelsea won the State Street Press Chapbook Competition. Both are due out in 1992. His work is forthcoming in
The Best American Poetry 1992 (Scribners & HarperCollins), as well as in
The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

Susan Moon lives in Berkeley, California. Her book of fiction,
The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi, was published by Shambhala in 1988. Her work has appeared in many journals, including
Ms., The Sun, and
Five Fingers Review. She edits
Turning Wheel, the journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, and teaches writing at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California. Currently, she is on a three-month retreat as a Zen monk in a remote mountain monastery.

Isabel Nathaniel was a 1990 winner of the "Discovery"/
The Nation award, and has won three Poetry Society of America awards. Her work has appeared most recently in
Poetry and
The Nation. She is completing a first collection,
Infernal Regions. A New Yorker, she is married to a Texan and has lived in Dallas for twelve years.

Adele NeJame lives and teaches in Honolulu. She is a recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and has published poems in various journals, including
Nimrod, Denver Quarterly, Manoa, and
The Blue Mesa Review.

Dianne Nelson won first place in the 1991 Utah Orginial Writing Competition for her collection of short stories,
A Brief History of Male Nudes in America. She has work forthcoming in
The Quarterly, The Iowa Review, and
Sun Dog. She lives and writes in Salt Lake City.

Hans Ostrom teaches at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. His poetry has appeared in
Poetry Northwest, South Carolina Review, and other magazines. His novel,
Three to Get Ready, was published last year. With Wendy Bishop, he is co-editing
Colors of a Different Horse, a book of essays about teaching creative writing that NCTE will publish next year.

Nancy Roberts teaches fiction writing at the University of Illinois. Her first collection of stories,
Women and Other Bodies of Water, was published by Dragon Gate Press in 1987. Recent stories and excerpts from a new novel have appeared in various journals, including
The Beloit Fiction Journal and
The Gettysburg Review.

Mark Rudman is the author of two books of poems,
The Nowhere Steps (Sheep Meadow Press) and
By Contraries: Poems 1970-84 (National Poetry Foundation, 1987). His book of essays,
Diverse Voices, is due out in 1992 (Story Line Press), and in 1993 his translation of Boris Pasternak's
My Sister-Life (with Bohdan Boychuk) will appear in a revised edition (David R. Godine). He has work in recent
Best American Poetry and
Best American Essays anthologies. Jeannine Savard will have a new book of poems,
Trumpeter, published by Carnegie Mellon Press next year. Her poems have appeared recently in
Manoa and
The Southern Review. She teaches at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Bárbara Selfridge has studied and been arrested with Grace Paley. She received a 1991 NEA fellowship, a 1988-89 writing fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and a 1989 Writers Exchange fellowship from
Poets & Writers. Her stories have appeared in
The Caribbean Writer, Other Voices, Sojourner, Five Fingers Review, and two fiction anthologies from Cleis Press.

Peggy Shumaker is the head of the English Department at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Her books are
The Circle of Totems (Univ. of Pittsburgh) and
Esperanza's Hair (Univ. of Alabama). She is currently serving as Vice President of Associated Writing Programs.

Cathy Song is the author of
Picture Bride (Yale Univ.), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and
Frameless Windows, Squares of Light (Norton). Her poetry has been widely anthologized in various collections, including
The Morrow Anthology of Younger American Poets, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, and
The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. She recently co-edited an anthology of fiction and poetry by women called
Sister Stew (Bamboo Ridge Press).

Gary Soto's most recent books are
Neighborhood Odes and
Taking Sides, both from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. His second film,
The Pool Party, will air nationally in the fall of 1992 on many public television stations.

Debra Spark lives and teaches in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in
Esquire, Prairie Schooner, and
New Letters, among other magazines.

David St. John is the author of four collections of poetry:
Hush, The Shore, No Heaven, and, most recently,
Terraces of Rain: An Italian Sketchbook. He is Professor of English at the University of Southern California, and for the past ten years he has served as Poetry Editor of
The Antioch Review.

Maura Stanton has published a novel,
Molly Companion (translated into Spanish as
Rio Abajo), and a book of stories,
The Country I Come From, which is now in a second printing from Milkweed Editions. She teaches at Indiana University.

Frank Stewart won a 1986 Whiting Writer's Award. A longtime resident of Hawaii, his latest book of poems is
Flying the Red Eye (Floating Island Publications). He is co-editor of
Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. George Uba teaches at California State University, Northridge. His poems have appeared in
Carolina Quarterly, The Seattle Review, and in Japanese translation.

Wayne Ude is the author of
Three Coyote Tales (Lone Oak Press);
Buffalo and Other Stories, which was recently reissued by Lynx House Press in a new edition containing two new stories; and the novel
Becoming Coyote (Lynx House Press). A native of Montana, he currently serves as Director of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Kathryn VanSpanckeren was raised in rural California and Arizona. She has published poetry and articles on contemporary multicultural writing in literary journals and co-edited two books, on Margaret Atwood and John Gardner, published by Southern Illinois University Press. She teaches at the University of Tampa and is Poetry Editor of
The Tampa Review.

Carolyne Wright was born in Bellingham, Washington, and grew up in Seattle. She completed her master's and doctorate in English/Creative Writing at Syracuse University, where she studied with the late George P. Elliott, to whom "After the Explosion of Mount St. Helens . . ." is dedicated. This poem forms part of a manuscript,
The Custody of the Eyes, which has been a finalist in every major U.S. poetry publishing competition. She is a 1991-92 Fellow at the Bunting Institute/Radcliffe College.

Brian Young received a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts in 1991. His poems recently appeared in
Agni and
Another Chicago Magazine.