Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Heather McHugh

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 Editors: Jay Baron Nicorvo and Nicole Kelley.
Editorial Assistants: Thomas Fabian and Michele Stella.
Poetry Readers: Sean Singer, Ellen Wehle, Tracy Gavel, Kristoffer Haines, Jill Owens, Joanne Diaz, Christopher Hennessy, and Jennifer Thurber.
Fiction Readers: Eson Kim, Michael Rainho, Wendy Wunder, Hannah Bottomy, Emile MacLellan, Darla Bruno, Elizabeth Pease, Bart Cameron, Geraldine MCGowan, and Laura Tarvin.
Proofreader: Jean Hopkinson.

CONTRIBUTORS

mary jo bang is the author of
Apology for Want and
Louise in Love. Her third collection,
The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans, will be published by the University of Georgia Press in the spring of 2001. She lives in St. Louis and teaches at Washington University.

dan beachy-quick has poems appearing in
Green Mountains Review, Denver Quarterly, and
Colorado Review. He is currently living in Iowa City.

geoffrey becker is the author of a collection,
Dangerous Men, which won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and a novel,
Bluestown. He has received the Nelson Algren Award and an NEA fellowship, and his story "Black Elvis" was selected for
The Best American Short Stories 2000. He teaches at Towson University.

brian blanchfield's poems can be found in recent or eventual issues of
Barrow Street, The Bellingham Review, Fence, Green Mountains Review, Seneca Review, and
VOLT. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

debra bruce's work has appeared in
The Atlantic, Poetry, and
The Virginia Quarterly Review, and is forthcoming in
Shenandoah. Her most recent book,
What Wind Will Do, was published in 1997 by Miami University Press of Ohio. She teaches in the English department at Northeastern Illinois University.

lucy corin is working on a novel,
Everyday Psychokillers. Her short stories have been published in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently
Retro Retro, from Serpent's Tail. "Who Buried the Baby" is the title piece of her short story manuscript. This is her second appearance in
Ploughshares.

lisa croneberg is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in poetry at Warren Wilson College. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, and her work has appeared in
Chelsea and
The American Scholar. She lives in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

olena kalytiak davis is the author of
And Her Soul Out of Nothing (Wisconsin, 1997). Her work has recently been anthologized in
The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, American Poetry: The Next Generation, The Best American Poetry 2000, and
The Pushcart Prize XXV.

chard deniord's poems have appeared recently or are soon forthcoming in
Witness, The Pushcart Prize XXII,
The Best American Poetry 1999, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Agni, The Harvard Review, and
Ploughshares. He is the author of
Asleep in the Fire, published by the University of Alabama Press in 1990. He teaches English and creative writing at Providence College.

timothy donnelly received his M.F.A. from Columbia University and was awarded the school's David Craig Austin Prize for his thesis manuscript,
Accidental Species. He has poems forthcoming in
Fence, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. He is Poetry Editor at
Boston Review and a graduate student in English at Princeton University.

jenny factor is the 2000 Astraea Foundation grant recipient in poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in
The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Verse, and other venues. She received her A.B. from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and her M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars.

ian ganassi's poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including, most recently,
The Yale Review, Third Coast, and
New England Review. He is a writer and musician living in New Haven, Connecticut.

debora greger's new book of poems,
God, will be published in June.

marilyn hacker's most recent book,
Squares and Courtyards, was published by W.W. Norton in 2000.
A Long-Gone Sun, her translation of Claire Malroux's
Soleil de Jadis, was published this fall by Sheep Meadow Press. She lives in New York and Paris, and is director of the M.A. program in English literature and creative writing at the City College of New York.

matt hart can be heard, most recently, on the CD
This Is Our ~ Music (Deary Me Records, 2000), from the art-rock band Travel. His poems have appeared in
Conduit, Spinning Jenny, and
Swerve. He co-founded and co-edits
Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety.

bob hicok's third book is
Animal Soul (Invisible Cities, 2001).
Plus Shipping was published by BOA Editions in 1998. New poems are due in
The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, and
The Pushcart Prize XXV. He was an NEA fellow in 1999.

sean hopkinson's poems have appeared most recently in
New Voices: University and College Poetry Prizes, 1989-1998, an anthology published by the Academy of American Poets. He lives in San Francisco, where he works in a library.

jay hopler's poetry, essays, and translations have appeared most recently or are forthcoming in
Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, and
Pleiades. He lives in southwest Florida.

christine hume is the author of
Musca Domestica (Beacon, 2000). Recent work has appeared in
Epoch, The Iowa Review, New American Writing, and
Verse. She teaches at Illinois Wesleyan University and lives in Chicago.

catherine ryan hyde is the author of the novels
Funerals for Horses, Pay It Forward, and
Electric God, the story collection
Earthquake Weather, and the forthcoming
Walter's Purple Heart and
Subway Dancer and Other Stories. Her stories have appeared in
Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Antioch Review, and other journals.

r. j. keeler was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1945. He was an Honorman at Submarine School, earned a Vietnam Service Medal, and holds a B.S., an M.S.C.S., and an M.B.A. He has worked at Boeing for thirteen years. He lives in Seattle.

aeron kopriva is a student of the Latin and Greek classics at Bard College.

julie larios is in the M.F.A. program at the University of Washington. She also serves as a contributing editor for
The Cortland Review. Her work has appeared in
Poetry Northwest,
The Threepenny Review, and
Faultline. A children's book,
On the Stairs, was published recently by Front Street Books.

vicki lindner is a fiction writer, essayist, and journalist. Her recent work has appeared in
Northern Lights, New York Stories, Terrain, Bearing Life (a Feminist Press anthology), and
Ploughshares. She is working on a nonfiction project,
The Sad Ballad of Frankie Jean Mason: The Death of a Stranger in Gem City of the Plains. She lives in Wyoming.

claire malroux is the author of six books of poems, most recently
Soleil de Jadis, a poem-narrative of her childhood in southwestern France.
Edge, a bilingual collection of her poems translated by Marilyn Hacker, was published by Wake Forest University Press in 1996. Sheep Meadow Press published
A Long-Gone Sun, Hacker's translation of
Soleil de Jadis, in the fall of 2000.

kathryn maris, a poet based in London, has been awarded fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, and the Ragdale Foundation. Her work has appeared most recently in
Poetry, and is forthcoming in
Fence and
New Voices: University and College Prizes, an anthology edited by Heather McHugh for the Academy of American Poets.

jerry mason lives and works in Boston. His poems have appeared in
American Letters & Commentary, Hampden-Sydney Review, Pivot, Mudfish, South Coast Poetry Journal, Nedge, and elsewhere.

glyn maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1962, and studied English at Oxford and poetry at Boston University. He has received the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent books are
The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995 and
The Breakage.

kevin mcfadden, originally from the Cleveland area, received his M.F.A. from the University of Virginia. His poems have appeared in
Poetry, Parnassus, Denver Quarterly, and
The Antioch Review, and have been featured on
Poetry Daily.

medbh mcguckian's volumes include
Venus in the Rain and
The Flower Master, which won the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize.
On Ballycastle Beach,
Marconi's Cottage,
Captain Lavender,
Selected Poems, and
Shelmalier were all published in the U.S. by Wake Forest University Press. She lives in Belfast, Ireland.

matthew mcintosh is from Federal Way, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. He is co-founder of the independent Well Known Press. "Chicken" is from a forthcoming novel to be published in the fall of 2001.

howard michelsis an artist living in New York. His work has appeared on the covers of books by numerous poets, including Stephen Dobyns and Charles Simic.

d. c. miller, who is originally from Scotland, now lives in Columbia, South Carolina. He has previously published poems in
The Mississippi Review, The Southern Poetry Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and other journals.

eric miller, author of
Song of the Vulgar Starling (Broken Jaw, 1999), won an Academy of American Poets prize in 1996. He also appears in the anthologies
New Canadian Poetry (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2000) and
Dokumente aus Babel (Waxmann, 2001). His unpublished novel won an award in 1999.

paul muldoon, who was born in Northern Ireland in 1951, is the author of eight collections of poetry. His
Poems 1968-1998 was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2001. He is Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.

les murray is an Australian poet born in 1938. His two main books in print in the U.S. are
Fredy Neptune, a verse novel, and
Learning Human: Selected Poems, both published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

muriel nelson of Federal Way, Washington, is the author of
Part Song (Bear Star, 1999). Her work had been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in
The New Republic, The Prague Post, The Marlboro Review, and
The Christian Century. She holds master's degrees from Warren Wilson's M.F.A. Program for Writers and the University of Illinois School of Music.

heidi lynn nilsson's poems have appeared in
Pleiades, TriQuarterly, Epoch, Agni, and the anthology
The New Young American Poets. She teaches at the John Carroll School in Baltimore, where she lives with her husband.

geoffrey g. o'brien's first book,
The Guns and Flags Project, will be published by the University of California Press in spring 2002.

linden ontjes lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her poetry has been published in
Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, The Seattle Review, Exquisite Corpse, and many other journals. The King County Public Art Program selected her work for display and publication in the 2000
Poetry & Art on Buses collection. She has received grants from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Foundation for Art Resources.

julie orringer received her B.A. from Cornell University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently a Truman Capote Fellow in the Stegner Program at Stanford University, where she is working on a collection of short stories. Her stories have appeared in
The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and
The Pushcart Prize XXV.

sharim rainwater lives in Iowa City, Iowa. The poem "Hall of Glass" is for Simone Sorteberg.

david ray's many books, two of which have won the William Carlos Williams Award, include
Demons in the Diner, Kangaroo Paws, and
Fathers, an anthology co-edited with his wife, Judy. He lives in Tucson.

robin robertson's first book,
A Painted Field, won Britain's Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize, and the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. He lives in London.

matthew rohrer has studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry. His first book,
A Hummock in the Malookas, was selected for the 1994 National Poetry Series, and his second book,
Satellite, will be published by Verse Press in April 2001. He lives in Brooklyn and is a poetry editor for
Fence.

amanda schaffer's poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in
Colorado Review, Seneca Review, Green Mountains Review, Indiana Review, and
The Journal of the American Medical Association, among others. She lives in New York City.

thom schramm's poems have appeared in
Poetry Northwest and
Crab Creek Review. He received an Academy of American Poets Prize in 2000.

dani shapiro is a novelist whose books include
Playing With Fire, Fugitive Blue, Picturing the Wreck, and, most recently, a memoir,
Slow Motion. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker, Granta, Story, and other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

david shields's most recent book,
Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of another work of autobiographical nonfiction,
Remote; two novels,
Dead Languages and
Heroes; and a collection of linked stories,
A Handbook for Drowning.

charles simic has published fourteen collections of poetry, five books of essays and memoirs, and numerous books of translations. His most recent volumes are
Jackstraws and
Selected Early Poems. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize, he teaches American literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire.

ron strauss was born in Fullerton, California, and educated at Princeton and Stanford Universities. He is currently completing his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His work has most recently appeared in
Descant.

stephanie strickland's manuscript,
V, won the 2000 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, and her poem "Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot" received
Boston Review's Poetry Prize. She is the author of the Eastgate hypertext
True North and several hypertext poems, as well as essays about digital poetics. Her print poetry includes the volumes
True North and
The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil.

mark svenvold's
A Century's Corpse: The Life and Strange Afterlife of Elmer J. McCurdy, Outlaw is forthcoming from Fourth Estate and Basic Books. He curates
Talk/Art/Cabaret every fourth Tuesday at The Cornelia Street Café in New York City.

larissa szporluk is the author of two books of poetry,
Dark Sky Question (Beacon, 1998) and
Isolato (Iowa, 2000). She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University and is at work on her new manuscript,
The Wind, Master Cherry, The Wind.

gene tanta was born in Timisoara, Romania. His first book of poetry,
Satellite Wishes, a bilingual edition in English and Spanish consisting of fifty-five poems written while living in Guanjuato, Mexico, has just been published in Mexico. He is almost finished with his second book,
The Stars Are Not Candle Tips.

karen volkman is the author of
Crash's Law (Norton, 1996). Her poems have recently appeared in
The Paris Review, The New Republic, Fence, and
LIT. This year she was Visiting Poet in the M.F.A. program at the University of Pittsburgh.

liz waldner's collection
A Point Is That Which Has No Part received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2000 Academy of American Poets' Laughlin Prize. Three chapbooks,
Call (Meow),
With the Tongues of Angels (Owl Creek), and
Read Only Memory (Seeing Eye), also appeared in 2000. Her first book,
Homing Devices, was published in 1998 by O Books. She lives in Seattle.

joe wenderoth is the author of two books of poems,
Disfortune (1995) and
It Is If I Speak (2000), both from Wesleyan University Press, and a chapbook,
The Endearment (1999), from Shortline Editions. His new book, a novel entitled
Letters to Wendy's, has just been published by Verse Press. He is Assistant Professor of English at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.

jason whitmarsh lives in Seattle. Recent poems of his have appeared in
Harvard Review, Quarterly West, and
Fence.

eliot khalil wilson's poetry has most recently appeared in
The Journal, Willow Springs, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and
Poet Lore. A recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Hill-Kohn Prize, he currently teaches writing and literature at the University of Alabama.

scott withiam teaches writing at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. His poems have most recently appeared in
Field, River Styx, Madison Review, and
Sycamore Review. Work is forthcoming in
Green Mountains Review, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, and
The Laurel Review.

dean young's most recent book is
First Course in Turbulence. New poems have recently appeared in
The Threepenny Review, Fence, and
American Letters & Commentary.

martha zweig received a 1999 Whiting Writer's Award. She is the author of a collection,
Vinegar Bone (Wesleyan, 1999), and a chapbook,
Powers, from the Vermont Council on the Arts. Her poems have appeared in
Northwest Review, Manoa, Boston Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Progressive, and elsewhere.