Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

James Welch

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor & Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Jessica Dineen

Editorial Assistant

Stephanie Booth

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff Assistant: Jodee Stanley.
Interns: Kristen Cudmore and George Carner.
Poetry Readers: Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Linda Russo, Karen Voelker, Jason Rogers, Tom Laughlin, Renee Rooks, Bill Keeney, Susan Rich, Rachel Piccione, and Bethany Daniel. 
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Michael Rainho, Lee Harrington, Stephanie Booth, Jodee Stanley, Karen Wise, Esther Crain, Christine Flanagan, Maryanne O'Hara, Kim Reynolds, David Rowell, Holly LeCraw Howe, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Tanja Brull, and Barbara Lewis.
Phone-a-Poem Coordinator: Joyce Peseroff.

CONTRIBUTORS

sherman alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian and the author of five books, including
First Indian on the Moon, a poetry collection(Hanging Loose Press), and
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, a collection of short stories (Grove/Atlantic Press). His work has appeared in
Esquire, Story, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and elsewhere. His first novel,
Coyote Springs, is due out from Grove/Atlantic in the spring of 1995.

s. ben-tov's first book of poems is
During Ceasefire, published by Harper & Row. A scholarly book,
The Artificial Paradise, is forthcoming in Michigan University Press's series of Studies in Literature and Science. She lives in Israel part of the time and teaches creative writing at Bowling Green State University.

dana boussard, a nationally known artist, works and lives on a ranch near Missoula, Montana, with her husband and daughter. She has exhibited extensively, and over fifty of her works have been commissioned for state and corporate buildings. She has also illustrated several publications, including
Fools Crow and
Killing Custer by James Welch. (Ed. Note:
Spirit Connection, which measures 45" x 73", is not represented fully on the cover.)

kevin bowen is Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts/Boston.
Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong, his first book, will be published by Curbstone Press in the fall.

rafael campo, a recipient of Boston University's Starbuck Fellowship in Poetry and
The Kenyon Review's Emerging Writer of the Year Award, is a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His first manuscript, entitled
The Other Man Was Me, won the 1993 National Poetry Series open competition and is due out this summer.

richard chess's first book of poems,
Tekiah, will be published this fall by the University of Georgia Press. He has published poems and essays in
Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Massachusetts Review, Tikkun, and other journals. "Tzimtzum" was composed for a "blessing way," or pre-birth ceremony, for Debi Miles and Marc Rudow, whose third son, Dovid, was born on Rosh Hashanah, 1992.

sharon cumberland is completing a Ph.D. in English at the City University of New York. Her poems have appeared in
The Beloit Poetry Journal, Fresh Ground, The Iowa Review, The Mickle Street Review, Poet Lore, Contact II, and elsewhere. She once tried her vocation in an Anglican religious order.

gina dorcely is a poet, translator, and essayist currently at work on a group memoir of Haitian life,
Unravelling Midnight: Truth and Experience in a Haitian Family. She is a member of the Darkroom Collective.

joseph duemer is the editor of
Poets Reading Stevens (1993), a special issue of
The Wallace Stevens Journal, for which he serves as poetry editor.
Customs, a collection of poems, was published in 1987 by the University of Georgia Press. Recent work appears in
The American Poetry Review, Yellow Silk, The Iowa Review, and
The New England Review.

debra earling is a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation in Northwest Montana. She holds a joint appointment in English and Native American Studies at the University of Montana in Missoula. She has just completed her novel,
Perma Red.

anita endrezze is half-Yaqui and half-European (Slovenian, north Italian, and German-Romanian). Her book of poems,
at the helm of twilight (Broken Moon Press), won the 1992 Bumbershoot-Weyerhaeuser Award and a 1993 Governor's Writer's Award. Short stories appear in two anthologies:
Talking Leaves and
Earth Song, Sky Spirit. "Ponies Gathering in the Dark" is from a novel-in-progress.

ted genoways's first chapbook,
Bullroarer, is forthcoming from Brooding Heron Press in 1995. His poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from
Amelia, Midwest Quarterly, The Cape Rock, Poem, and
Southern Poetry Review. He is the editor of
Burning the Hymnal: The Uncollected Poems of William Kloefkorn (Slow Tempo Press).

diane glancy teaches Native American literature and creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul. Her fourth collection of poems,
Lone Dog's Winter Count, was published by West End Press. Her collection of essays,
Claiming Breath (Univ. of Nebraska Press), won a 1993 American Book Award. Her fiction collections are
Firesticks (Univ. of Oklahoma Press) and
Trigger Dance (Univ. of Colorado and Fiction Collective II).

patricia goedicke's most recent book of poetry is
Paul Bunyan's Bearskin. Her volume of new and selected work,
The Tongues We Speak, was awarded
The New York Times's 1990 Notable Book Award. A recent recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Residency at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, she teaches poetry at the University of Montana.

jeffrey greene is the author of
To the Left of the Worshiper (Alice James Books, 1991). He was a "Discovery"/
The Nation Award winner and a recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant. His poems have appeared in
Boulevard, The New Yorker, Poetry, Southwest Review, and
Pequod.

ann harleman's collection,
Happiness, just out from the University of Iowa Press, won the 1993 John Simmons Short Fiction Award. She is working on a novel about her great-grandfather, who murdered for love.

margaret kaufman received an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson in 1993. Awarded a 1993 Marin Arts Council poetry grant, she lives in Kentfield, California.
Aunt Sallie's Lament (The Janus Press, 1988) has been recently issued in a trade edition by Chronicle Books. "Lot's Wife" is part of her new manuscript,
"No" in Every Step.

marshall n. klimasewiski's short stories have been published in
The New Yorker, The Antioch Review, Quarterly West, and a 1988 issue of
Ploughshares dedicated to "Fiction Discoveries." A story entitled "JunHee" was anthologized in
Best American Short Stories, 1992. He is at work on a novel and a collection of stories.

mark levine's book,
Debt, is available from William Morrow. He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1993 and will be the Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in 1994-95.

peter marcus has poems in
Agni, The Iowa Review, The North American Review, Poetry, Poetry East, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, working as a therapist at Northern Arizona University, where his main interests are counseling Native American students and students with eating disorders.

ted mcnulty, an Irish-American poet living in Dublin, won the Hennessy Literary Prize as "New Irish Writer of the Year." His work has appeared in
The Observer, The Spectator, Oxford Poetry, and
The Irish Times. Rough Landings, his current collection, was published by Salmon Poetry/Poolbeg Press.

scott momaday is the author of
The Ancient Child, The Names, The Way to Rainy Mountain, and
House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969.

lee ann mortensen recently won a fiction fellowship from the
Poets & Writers exchange program. She teaches writing and literature at Utah Valley State College. Her writing has appeared in
Mississippi Review, Quarterly West, Inscape, and
The Student Review. "Not Quite Peru" is the first chapter to be published from her nearly completed novel,
Strip.

thylias moss's most recent books were both published in 1993:
Small Congregations, a volume of new and selected poems, and
I Want to Be, a book for children. Currently she teaches at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor with her husband and their two young sons. Coming soon is a second children's book,
Somewhere Else Right Now.

ophelia navarro, a native of Tucson, Arizona, is an undergraduate student at Wellesley College. She is working on a collection of short stories and a play. This is the first time her work has appeared in print.

simon ortiz's new collection of poetry,
After and Before the Lightning, will be published by the University of Arizona Press in the fall. Previous poetry works include
From Sand Creek and
Woven Stone. He has also published short fiction,
Fightin': New & Collected Stories, and children's literature,
The People Shall Continue. Currently living in Tucson, Arizona, he served in the 1980s as Interpreter and First Lt. Governor of Acoma Pueblo, his Native American community.

eileen pollack is the author of
The Rabbi in the Attic, a collection of short fiction published in 1991 by Delphinium/Simon & Schuster. Two previous stories have appeared in
Ploughshares, and one subsequently was awarded a Pushcart Prize; the other received the Cohen Award. She teaches at Emerson College and at Tufts University in Boston.

alberto alvaro ríos's most recent book is
Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses, published by W.W. Norton. Other books include
The Lime Orchard Woman, The Iguana Killer, and
Whispering to Fool the Wind. The recent recipient of the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, he edited the Spring 1992 issue of
Ploughshares and is currently Professor of English at Arizona State University. A new book of short stories,
Pig Cookies, is forthcoming from San Francisco: Chronicle in 1995.

natasha saje's collection of poems,
Red Under the Skin, winner of the 1993 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the fall of 1994. With Barbara Bryan, she is editing an anthology of South Slav-American writing that explores ethnicity and nationalism.

ripley schemm lives in Missoula, Montana, and teaches throughout the state for the Montana Arts Council. She has poems forthcoming in
Circle of Women: An Anthology of Western Women Writers, due from Viking Press this year.

diann blakely shoaf's first volume of poems,
Hurricane Walk, was published in 1992 by BOA Editions. Work from a new manuscript,
Not a Stranger, has appeared or is forthcoming in
Denver Quarterly, Harvard Magazine, The Nation, Ploughshares, and
The Southern Review.

bruce smith is the author of three books of poetry,
The Common Wages (Sheep Meadow, 1983),
Silver and Information (Univ. of Georgia Press, 1985), and, most recently,
Mercy Seat (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994).

charles h. webb's collection of poetry,
Everyday Outrages, was published by Red Wind Books. He edited
Stand Up Poetry: The Anthology, which has just been published by the University Press, CSU Long Beach.

elizabeth woody's poetry collection
Hand Into Stone received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1990, and an expanded edition is forthcoming from Eighth Mountain Press in late 1994. A new collection,
Luminaries of the Humble, will be available from the University of Arizona Press in the fall. A Yakima, Warm Springs, Wasco, and Navajo Indian, Woody is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Indian Reservation at Warm Springs, Oregon.

judith yamamoto's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in
Magic Realism, Quanta, Artmeis, Southern Poetry Review, Partisan Review, and other literary magazines.
Redbook published a short story of hers, "A Long Time to Be Gone," which was included in Martha Foley's 1974 Distinctive Short Stories List.

susan yuzna grew up in Minnesota, received her B.A. from the University of Iowa, and is now in the M.F.A. program at the University of Montana. Her poems are forthcoming in
The North Stone Review, The Antioch Review, and
The Laurel Review. She lives in Missoula with her son and her dog.