Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

Carl Phillips

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: Jay Baron Nicorvo.
Editorial Assistants: Nada Bankovic and Chris Tonelli.
Proofreader: Megan Weireter.

Poetry Readers: Megan Weireter, Simeon Berry, Zachary Sifuentes, Erin Lavelle, Jennifer Thurber, Robert Arnold,  Joanne Diaz, and Chris Tonelli.
Fiction Readers: Maureen Cidzik, Megan Weireter, Asako Serizawa, Joanna Luloff, Nicole Kelley, Leslie Cauldwell, Wendy Wunder, Kathleen Rooney, Michelle Mulder, Simeon Berry, Christopher Helmuth, Erin Lavelle, Eson Kim, James Charlesworth, Cortney Hamilton, Hannah Bottomy, Erin Hagedorn, Coppelia Liebenthal, Patricia Reed, Scarlett Stoppa, Laura Tarvin, Jeffrey Voccola, Matthew Modica, and Michael Rainho.

CONTRIBUTORS

david baker is the author of eight books, most recently
Changeable Thunder (Arkansas, 2001) and
Heresy and the Ideal: On Contemporary Poetry (Arkansas, 2001). New work is forthcoming in
The American Scholar, DoubleTake, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

mary jo bang is the author of three books of poems:
Apology for Want, Louise in Love, and
The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans. She has been a poetry editor at
Boston Review since 1996. She currently teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

edward bartók-baratta has new poems in
African American Review, American Literary Review, Brilliant Corners, Jacket, Artful Dodge, Barrow Street, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Seattle Review, and
Poets Respond to Violence in America.

ann beattie is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

erin belieu is the author of two poetry collections:
Infanta (Copper Canyon, 1995), which was selected for the National Poetry Series, and
One Above & One Below (Copper Canyon, 2000). She recently co-edited the anthology
The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia, 2001) and presently edits the new literary magazine
Hotel Amerika, published at Ohio University.

brian blanchfield is the author of
Not Even Then, a book of poems forthcoming from University of California Press in early 2004. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

jody bolz, the acting director of George Washington University's creative writing program, is an editor of
Poet Lore. Her work has appeared recently in
The American Scholar, River Styx, Gargoyle, The Women's Review of Books, and several anthologies. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation grant in 1998-99 and a scholarship to the 2001 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

joel brouwer's new book,
Centuries, has just been published by Four Way Books. New work has appeared recently in
The Massachusetts Review, The Paris Review, and
Parnassus. He teaches at the University of Alabama.

cyrus cassells is the author of four books of poetry,
The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, and
More Than Peace and Cypresses, which is forthcoming from Copper Canyon in 2004.

michael collier's fourth book of poems,
The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin), appeared in 2000. He teaches at the University of Maryland.

martha collins's fourth book of poems,
Some Things Words Can Do, was published by Sheep Meadow Press, and included a reprint of her third. She is Pauline Delaney Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College, where she also serves as an editor of
FIELD magazine.

rita dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a former U.S. Poet Laureate. Her latest poetry collection,
On the Bus with Rosa Parks, was published in 1999. Editor of
The Best American Poetry 2000, she is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

john dowd was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1960. He resides in both Provincetown and New York, and is represented by the William-Scott Gallery in Boston and Provincetown.

angie estes's most recent collection,
Voice-Over (Oberlin, 2002), won the 2001
FIELD Poetry Prize and was also awarded the 2001 Alice Fay di Castagnola Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Recent work appears in
The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Boston Review, and
Pleiades.

percival everett is the author of fifteen books. He is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He lives outside of Los Angeles and on Vancouver Island.

kathy fagan is the author, most recently, of
The Charm (Zoo, 2002). She directs the M.F.A. program at The Ohio State University, where she also co-edits
The Journal.

miranda field was born and raised in London. Her poems have won a "Discovery"/
The Nation Award and a Pushcart Prize. Her first book,
Swallow, won the 2001 Katherine Bakeless Nason Prize in Poetry. She lives in New York City with her husband, poet Tom Thompson, and their two children.

caroline finkelstein is the author of the poetry collections
Windows Facing East (Dragon Gate, 1986),
Germany (Carnegie Mellon, 1995), and
Justice (Carnegie Mellon, 1999). She has been the recipient of two fellowships from the NEA, as well as grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Vermont Arts Council. She lives in Westport, Massachusetts.

carol frost is the author of
Pure (1994),
Venus and Don Juan (1996),
Love and Scorn: New and Selected Poems (2000), and
I Will Say Beauty (2003), all from Northwestern University Press. She directs the Catskill Poetry Workshop at Hartwick College, where she is a writer-in-residence.

christine garren has published two books of poetry,
Afterworld and
Among the Monarchs, with the University of Chicago Press. A 1999 recipient of an NEA fellowship, she serves as Visiting Assistant Professor in the M.F.A. program at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

peter gordon's fiction has appeared in
The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Glimmer Train, The Carolina Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The North American Review, The Antioch Review, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize winner, he lives in Framingham, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.

linda gregg's fifth book of poems,
Things and Flesh, was published by Graywolf Press in 1999. Her first two books,
Too Bright to See and
Alma, were republished jointly in 2002. She lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University.

lise haines is the author of the novel
In My Sister's Country. She has twice been a finalist for the PEN Nelson Algren Fiction Award, published a collection of poetry, and her work has appeared in a variety of literary journals. She grew up in Chicago, lived for many years in Santa Barbara, and now resides outside Boston with her daughter. She is a writer-in-residence at Emerson College.

john haskell was raised in California, founded the Huron Theater in Chicago, and received an M.F.A. from Columbia University in New York. He is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and his book of stories,
I Am Not Jackson Pollock, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

lyn hejinian's most recently published books of poetry are
Happily (2000),
The Beginner (2002), and
Slowly (2002), a trilogy (without a name).
The Language of Inquiry, a collection of her essays, was published in 2000. She lives and works in Berkeley, California.

claire hero currently teaches at Central Missouri State University and is Poetry Editor for
Pleiades. Recent work has appeared in
Boston Review, Post Road, and
POOL.

rick hilles's poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in
Harper's, Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, and
The Paris Review. He teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan, but this year is living abroad as the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar for 2002-03.

richard howard's twelfth book of poems,
Talking Cures, was published in November 2002. A translator and editor as well, he teaches literature in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts at Columbia University.

hester kaplan's short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including
Ploughshares, Story, Glimmer Train, and
Agni, and has twice been included in
The Best American Short Stories. Her collection,
The End of Marriage, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is the author of
Kinship Theory, a novel.

joy katz was trained in industrial design. She is the author of
Fabulae (Southern Illinois, 2002); the art director of
Parnassus: Poetry in Review; a senior editor at
Pleiades; and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology
Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems. She lives in Brooklyn.

jennifer kronovet works for the Poetry Society of America in New York City. Her poems have appeared in
Delmar, Meridian, Post Road, and
Poetry Northwest. She holds an M.F.A. from Washington University and is currently collaborating on translations of the Yiddish writer Celia Dropkin.

laurie lamon is Associate Professor of English at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, where she lives with her husband, William Siems. Her poems have appeared in
The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture, and elsewhere.

bei ling, a poet and essayist, is the founder and editor of
Tendency, an exile literary journal published in Chinese. He is also Executive Director of the Independent Chinese PEN Center; on the board of the International Center for Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine; and Research Associate at Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.

lisa lubasch is the author of
Vicinities (Avec, 2001) and
How Many More of Them Are You? (Avec, 1999), which received the Norma Farber First Book Award in 2000. In 2004, her translation of Paul Éluard's
A Moral Lesson will be published by Green Integer Books,and a new collection of poems entitled
To Tell the Lamp will be published by Avec.

james magorian has recent poems in
California Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, The Notre Dame Review, and
Wisconsin Review. His latest poetry collection is
Millennial Journal (2000).

kathryn maris's work has appeared in previous issues of
Ploughshares, as well as in
Poetry, Fence, and
New Voices: University and College Prizes 1989-1998, an anthology edited by Heather McHugh for the Academy of American Poets. She has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Yaddo. She lives in London.

gail mazur's fourth book,
They Can't Take That Away from Me, was a 2001 finalist for the National Book Award. A writer-in-residence in Emerson College's M.F.A. program, she also serves on the Writing Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and teaches in FAWC's summer program. She is Founding Director of the Blacksmith House Poetry Series.

jane mead is the author of
The Lord and the General Din of the World and
House of Poured-Out Waters. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Whiting, Lannan, and Guggenheim foundations. She has been a poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University since 1996, and also teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. program at New England College.

devika mehra was born and raised in New Delhi, India. After graduating from Vassar College, she was the recipient of the Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellowship at Southwest Texas University. She is currently finishing a collection of linked stories. Her work is forthcoming in
The Best New American Voices 2004. This is her first publication.

ander monson is from Upper Michigan, but lives in Alabama, where he edits the magazine
Diagram (thediagram.com). His work may be found in publications such as
Fence, FIELD, The Alaska Quarterly Review, Conduit, 3rd Bed, and
The North American Review.

carol muske-dukes's seventh book of poems,
Sparrow, will be published in May 2003 by Random House. Her collection of essays,
Married to the Icepick Killer: A Poet in Hollywood, was listed as one of the top 100 Books of 2002 by
The San Francisco Chronicle. She is Professor of English/Creative Writing at USC.

jeff oaks has published two chapbooks,
The Unknown Country (State Street) and
The Moon of Books (Ultima Obscura). Presently he teaches creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh and serves as Managing Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series.

joe osterhaus's second poetry collection,
Radiance, was published by Zoo Press in 2002. His poems and review articles have appeared in
Agni, BOMB, Boston Review, The Formalist, Harvard Review, Hotel Amerika, The Journal, The Nebraska Review, The Paris Review, Slate, and
TriQuarterly.

robert pinsky was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. He is the poetry editor of the online journal
Slate and a contributor to
The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. The author of six books of poetry, he teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.

john poch teaches in the writing program at Texas Tech University. His first book of poems will appear next year from Orchises Press.

paisley rekdal is the author of the books
A Crash of Rhinos, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee, and
Six Girls Without Pants. She is the recipient of fellowships from the NEA, the Fulbright Foundation, and the Wyoming Arts Council.

lloyd schwartz's most recent book of poems is
Cairo Traffic (Chicago). He is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at UMass-Boston, and a regular commentator on NPR's
Fresh Air. For his articles on classical music in
The Boston Phoenix, he received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

charlie smith's new book of poems,
Women of America, will be out from W.W. Norton in the spring of 2004. His other books include
Heroin and Other Poems, Before and After, and
Shine Hawk. A Guggenheim and NEA fellowship recipient, he lives in New York City.

david st. john's most recent collections of poetry are
The Red Leaves of Night (HarperCollins, 1999) and
PRISM (Arctos, 2002).

samn stockwell lives in Marshfield, Vermont, with her partner of many years. She has published poetry in Th
e New Yorker, Seneca Review, and
Columbia, among other journals. Her book of poetry,
Theater of Animals, was published by the University of Illinois Press.

meredith stricker is the author of
Alphabet Theater, a collection of performance poetry and visual art from Wesleyan, and
Tenderness Shore, which was awarded the National Poetry Series Award and is forthcoming from LSU Press.

zona teti lives in Connecticut.

ann townsend is the author of
Dime Store Erotics (1998). Her poems, stories, and essays have appeared in such magazines as
Poetry, The Paris Review, The Nation, Witness, The Georgia Review, and many others. An associate professor of English at Denison University, she lives in Granville, Ohio, with her husband and daughter.

reetika vazirani is the author of
World Hotel (Copper Canyon, 2002) and
White Elephants (Beacon, 1996). In September 2003, she will join the English department at Emory University.

rosanna warren teaches Comparative Literature at Boston University. Her new book of poems,
Departure, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton.

kerri webster received her M.F.A. from Indiana University. Her poems have appeared recently in
The Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Boston Review, and
VOLT.

marlys west is a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and a 2003 NEA grant recipient. The University of Akron Press published her book of poems,
Notes for a Late-Blooming Martyr, in 1999. She was a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas, from which she received her M.F.A. in poetry in 1997.

scott withiam's poems are recently out in
FIELD, Tar River Poetry, Sonora Review, 5 A.M., and
English Journal, and are forthcoming in
Blue Mesa Review, The Marlboro Review, The Florida Review, Puerto Del Sol, and
Drunken Boat. His first book,
Arson and Prophets, will be published by Ashland Poetry Press this fall.

charles wright lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and teaches at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is
A Short History of the Shadow.

c. dale young is the author of a collection of poems,
The Day Underneath the Day (Northwestern, 2001). His poems have appeared in
The New Republic, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He practices medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in San Francisco.

dean young's most recent book is
Skid. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.