Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Paul Muldoon

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Gregg Rosenblum

Associate Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Associate Poetry Editor

Susan Conley

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Assistant Fiction Editor: Nicole Hein.
Editorial Assistants: Hannah Bottomy, Kristoffer Haines, Michael Homler, and Jill Owens.
Proofreader: Jean Hopkinson.
Poetry Readers: Christopher Hennessy, Sean Singer, Tracy Gavel, Joanne Diaz, Aaron Smith, Michael Carter, Jennifer Thurber, and January Gill.
Fiction Readers: Darla Bruno, Laurel Santini, Elizabeth Pease, Kathleen Stolle, Wendy Wunder, and Eson Kim.

CONTRIBUTORS

william allen is the author of
Sevastopol: On Photographs of War (Xenos, 1997) and
The Man on the Moon (NYU, 1987). An artist and teacher at NYU, the Cooper Union, and the School of Visual Arts, he now works at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island.

nin andrews is the author of
The Book of Orgasms (Cleveland State) and
Spontaneous Breasts (Pearl). She is currently editing a collection of Henri Michaux translations (Cleveland State).

mary jo bang's book,
Apology for Want, received the Bakeless Prize. She is the poetry co-editor of
Boston Review and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Her poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in
The New Republic, The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, and
Volt.

russell banks is the author most recently of the novels
Cloudsplitter and
Rule of the Bone. "Quality Time" will appear in his forthcoming collection of new and selected stories,
The Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks, in June from HarperCollins.

mary behrens lives in Boston and is on the faculty of Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. She is represented in Boston by the Creiger-Dane Gallery and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, by the DNA Gallery. Her most recent solo exhibition,
The Far & Away, was in March 2000 at Creiger-Dane.

cathy bowman is the author of two collections of poetry,
Rock Farm and
1-800-hot ribs, which was recently reprinted as part of the Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Poetry Series. She teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington.

christopher cahill is the author of a novel,
Perfection, which was published in Paris by L'Age d'Homme.

lan samantha chang is the author of
Hunger: A Novella and Stories. Her fiction has appeared in
Story, The Atlantic Monthly, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. She is an Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, where she is at work on a novel.

tina chang received an M.F.A. in poetry from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in
Quarterly West, The Missouri Review, and
The Indiana Review, and has been anthologized in
Identity Lessons and
Poetry Nation. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets,
Poets & Writers, Villa Montalvo, and Fundación Valparaíso.

killarney clary is the author of
By Common Salt (Oberlin, 1996);
Who Whispered Near Me (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989, and Bloodaxe Books, England, 1993); and the chapbook
By Me, By Any, Can and Can't Be Done (Greenhouse Review, 1980). She received a literary fellowship from the Lannan Foundation in 1992, and lives in Los Angeles.

steven cramer is the author of three collections of poems,
The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987),
The World Book (1992), and
Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (1997). The poem in this issue, "Goodbye to the Orchard," is the title poem of his fourth collection, which he will soon complete.

john d'agata's first collection,
Halls of Fame, will be published by Graywolf Press in January 2001.

claire davis teaches fiction at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Her stories have appeared in
The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines. Her first novel,
Winter Range, is forthcoming from Picador USA this fall. She is at work on another novel.

meredith drum lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she works in a bar. This is her first publication.

david francis holds M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees in poetry from the University of Washington and has taught writing and literature at schools in Delaware, Washington, Kentucky, and Poland (Fulbright, 1998). Currently he co-edits
Archaeology in Washington and teaches at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.

daisy fried's first book of poems,
She Didn't Mean To Do It, won the 1999 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press this October. A recent Pew Fellow in poetry, her poems have appeared in
The American Poetry Review, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, and other journals.

jonathan galassi's second collection of poems,
North Street, was recently published by HarperCollins.

douglas goetsch is the author of
Nobody's Hell (Hanging Loose, 1999) and
Wherever You Want (Pavement Saw, 1997). His honors include a Paumanok Award and an NYFA poetry fellowship. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in
The Iowa Review, Poetry, Hanging Loose, ONTHEBUS, The Fourth Genre, and online at
Poetry Daily.

stuart greenhouse is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in
Fence, Grand Street, The Notre Dame Review, The Paris Review, and
The Wallace Stevens Journal.

john hoppenthaler's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in
Tar River Poetry, Chelsea, Connecticut Review, The Bloomsbury Review, Luna, and
Clockpunchers: Poetry of the American Workplace. His essays, reviews, and interviews appear regularly in such journals as
Arts & Letters, Chelsea, and
Kestrel, where he is co-editor.

cynthia huntington's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
The Massachusetts Review, Harvard Review, TriQuarterly, and
Michigan Quarterly Review. "The Tempest," an excerpt from her latest book,
The Salt House, will appear in
American Nature Writers 2000. She directs the creative writing program at Dartmouth College.

troy jollimore has published poetry in several journals, including
The Malahat Review and
Press, and has also written for
The Boston Book Review. He has taught philosophy at Georgetown University and the University of California, Davis, and currently resides in Chico, California.

edmund keeley is the author of seven novels, nine books of nonfiction, and fourteen volumes of poetry in translation. He taught English and creative writing at Princeton University for forty years. His latest books are
Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47 (1999) and
On Translation: Reflections and Conversations (2000).

yusef komunyakaa has published eleven books of poems, including
Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems 1977-1989, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and
Thieves of Paradise, a finalist for the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award. Forthcoming are
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews & Commentaries, Talking Dirty to the Gods, and
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems 1975-1999.

nicole krauss has contributed poems to
The Paris Review and
Western Humanities Review, and in the U.K. to
Poetry Review and
PN Review. Her work was also included in the anthology
New Poetries II (Carcanet). She recently made a documentary about Joseph Brodsky for BBC Radio 3.

melissa kwasny is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program in poetry at the University of Montana. She is the author of two novels, most recently
Trees Call for What They Need, and has poems published or forthcoming in
CutBank, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, and
Fine Madness.

james lasdun has published two collections of stories,
Delirium Eclipse and
Three Evenings, and two books of poetry,
A Jump Start and
Woman Police Officer in Elevator. With Michael Hofmann he co-edited the anthology
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses. His story "The Siege" was adapted by Bernardo Bertolucci for his film
Besieged.

timothy liu was born in 1965. His books of poems are
Vox Angelica, Burnt Offerings, and
Say Goodnight. He is also the editor of
Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry, forthcoming from Talisman House.

cate marvin's poems have appeared in
New England Review, The Paris Review, Witness, and other journals, and her fiction is forthcoming in
Gulf Coast. Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Cincinnati.

walt mcdonald was an Air Force pilot and now teaches writing at Texas Tech University. He has published nineteen collections of poetry and fiction, including
All Occasions (Notre Dame, forthcoming this September),
Blessings the Body Gave (Ohio State, 1998), and others from Massachusetts, Pittsburgh, and Harper & Row. Four books won awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

kevin mcilvoy's novel,
Hyssop, was published by TriQuarterly Books in 1998 and appeared in paperback (Avon/Bard) in 1999. He has published stories recently in
Chelsea and
The Southern Review. For eighteen years he has taught at New Mexico State University, where he is the editor in chief of
Puerto del Sol.

melissa monroe lives and teaches in New York.
Machine Language, a collection of her poems, was recently published by Alef Books. The poem in this issue is part of a series suggested by David W. Maurer's study
Whiz Mob: A Correlation of the Technical Argot of Pickpockets with Their Behavior Pattern.

emily moore is a 1999 graduate of Princeton University, where she received the Shellabarger Prize Fellowship for her creative thesis,
Dairy. In 1998, she received a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

toni morrison has written seven novels, most recently
Paradise, and has been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was commissioned to write lyrics for Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman, and has worked with composers Andre Previn and Richard Danielpour. She is Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University.

robert nazarene's poetry appears or is forthcoming in
The Indiana Review, Callaloo, Nimrod, Atlanta Review, 5 am, and other journals. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Business Administration, and lives near St. Louis, Missouri.

joyce carol oates is the author most recently of the novel
Blonde (Ecco/ HarperCollins) and the essay collection
Where I've Been, and Where I'm Going (Dutton). She is a longtime resident of Princeton, New Jersey, where she teaches at the university and helps edit
Ontario Review.

pedro ponce's fiction has appeared previously in
Gargoyle and is forthcoming in
Alaska Quarterly Review. He is a past recipient of a Tara Fellowship for Short Fiction.

salvatore quasimodo won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1959.

james richardson's fifth collection of poems,
How Thing Are, has just been published by Carnegie Mellon.
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays will be out next year. He teaches at Princeton University.

Catie rosemurgy is currently an assistant professor of English at Northwest Missouri State University, where she also co-edits
The Laurel Review. Her first poetry collection,
My Favorite Apocalypse, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her poems have appeared in such places as
Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Sonora Review, and The Best American Poetry 1997.

j. allyn rosser's collection of poems,
Bright Moves, won the Morse Poetry Prize and was published by Northeastern University Press. Her work has recently appeared in
Slate and
Poetry. She teaches at Ohio University.

stephen sandy is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently
Black Box (LSU, 1999),
The Thread: New and Selected Poems (LSU, 1998), and
Thanksgiving Over the Water (Knopf, 1992). He lives in southern Vermont.

lisa sewell's first book of poems,
The Way Out, was published by Alice James Books in 1998. Recent poems have appeared in
The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah, Gulf Coast, and
The American Poetry Review. A 1999 NEA fellow, she lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.

faith shearin is an English teacher in Detroit. Her poems have appeared in
Alaska Quarterly Review, New York Quarterly, and
The Chicago Review, among others. She was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and writer-in-residence at the Interlochen Arts Academy, and has served on the faculty of the Cranbrook Retreat for Writers. Her work is forthcoming in
The Third Coast: An Anthology of Michigan Poets.

laurie sheck's most recent book is
The Willow Grove (Knopf). Recent work is in
The Best American Poetry 2000, The Pushcart Prize 2000, The Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Seneca Review, and
The Iowa Review. She currently teaches at Princeton University.

reginald shepherd's third book,
Wrong, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in late 1999. Pittsburgh also published his previous two books,
Some Are Drowning (1993 AWP Award) and
Angel, Interrupted. He lives in Ithaca, New York, and teaches at Cornell University.

terese svoboda's most recent book of poetry is
Mere Mortals (Georgia, 1995). Her most recent book of prose is
Trailer Girl and Other Stories (Counterpoint, 2000).

bill sweeney lives in New York City and teaches at Collegiate School.

paula tatarunis's poems have appeared in
The Exquisite Corpse, The Formalist, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Massachusetts Review, Quarterly West, and
Poetry. She received a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship grant in 1998, and works as an internist in Medford, Massachusetts.

lynne tillman's most recent novel,
No Lease on Life, was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. Her history of Books & Co.,
Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co., was published by Harcourt Brace in October 1999.

alpay ulku's first book of poems,
Meteorology, was published by BOA Editions in June 1999. His poems have appeared in
The Gettysburg Review, The Malahat Review, and
Northwest Review, and are forthcoming in
Witness and the anthology
American Poetry: The Next Generation. He works as a technical writer in Chicago.

nance van winckel is the author of three volumes of poetry:
Bad Girl, With Hawk; After a Spell; and
The Dirt. She has also published two collections of short stories,
Limited Lifetime Warranty and
Quake, and Persea will bring out a third book,
Curtain Creek Farm, this June.

a. j. verdelle is the author of a novel,
The Good Negress. She has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the NEA, and the Bunting Institute.

liz waldner's first book,
Homing Devices, was published by O Books in 1998; her second,
A Point Is That Which Has No Part, won the Iowa Poetry Prize for 2000. She is also the author of two chapbooks,
Call from Meow Press and
With the Tongues of Angels from Owl Creek Press.

renée
& theodore weiss have published and edited the
Quarterly Review of Literature for almost sixty years. Recently they received a Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN for editing
QRL, and Theodore Weiss won the 1997 Williams/ Derwood Award for his poetry. They are finishing a joint book of poems.

susan wheeler's books are
Bag 'o' Diamonds, Smokes, and the forthcoming novel
Record Palace. The recipient of a 1999 Guggenheim fellowship, she is teaching this spring at the University of Iowa and in the graduate creative writing program at New School University.

edmund white is the author of a dozen books, including
A Boy's Own Story and biographies of Jean Genet and Marcel Proust. His next novel is
The Married Man (Knopf, June). He teaches writing at Princeton University.

julia whitty is a writer and documentary filmmaker living in northern California. Her short fiction has won an O. Henry and the Bernice Slote Award, and was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. Her stories have appeared in
Harper's, Story, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Calyx, and elsewhere.

c. k. williams's most recent books of poetry are
The Vigil (1997) and
Repair (1999). A book of essays,
Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. A book of autobiographical meditation,
Misgivings, will be published this April, and
Love Poems and Poems About Love will be released later in the year. He teaches in the writing program at Princeton University.

theodore worozbyt is the recipient of grants from the NEA, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and, currently, the Alabama Council on the Arts. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in
Green Mountains Review, The Kenyon Review, The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and
Sonora Review.