Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor
Campbell McGrath

Editor
Don Lee

Managing Editor
Gregg Rosenblum

Poetry Editor
David Daniel

Associate Fiction Editor
Maryanne O'Hara

Founding Editor
DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher
Peter O'Malley

Assistant Fiction Editor: Jay Baron Nicorvo. Editorial Assistants: Elizabeth Lee and Ashley Joseph O'Shaughnessy. Bookshelf Advisors: Fred Leebron and Cate Marvin. Proofreader: Megan Weireter.

Fiction Readers: Kathleen Rooney, Eson Kim, Christopher Helmuth, Erin Lavelle, Simeon Berry, Maureen Cidzik, Leslie Busler, Cortney Hamilton, Scarlett Stoppa, Hannah Bottomy, Dam Medeiros, Leslie Cauldwell, Joanna Luloff, James Charlesworth, Matthew Modica, Wendy Wunder, Tammy Zambo, Jeffrey Voccola, Laura Tarvin, Michelle Mulder, Trish Reed, and Asako Serizawa. Poetry Readers: Kathleen Rooney, Simeon Berry, Christopher Tonelli, Elisa Gabbert, Erin Lavelle, Tracy Gavel, Zachary Sifuentes, Megan Weireter, Robert Arnold,  and Jennifer Thurber.

CONTRIBUTORS

elizabeth alexander is the author of three books of poems, most recently Antebellum Dream Book. Her collection of essays, The Black Interior, has just been released from Graywolf Press, along with a reissue of The Venus Hottentot. She teaches at Yale University.

dick allen's most recent collection is The Day Before: New Poems (Sarabande, 2003). It follows his Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected, also from Sarabande. He quit teaching college in 2001 and now spends his life on poetry, baroque and bluegrass music, Zen Buddhism, and traveling America.

sally ball has poems this spring in The Marlboro Review, Slate, and Rivendell. She is Associate and Managing Editor of Four Way Books.

richard blanco's City of a Hundred Fires received the 1997 Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. His work on the Cuban-American experience has appeared in numerous publications, including TriQuarterly, Indiana Review, The Best American Poetry 2000, and NPR. He is currently at work on his second book, Journey to the Beach of the Dead.

ron block is the author of The Dirty Shame Hotel and Other Stories and a collection of poetry , Dismal River. A 2002 NEA fellow in fiction, he teaches creative writing at Rowan University in New Jersey, where he is working on a novel and a second book of poems.

robert boswell is the author of five novels ( Century's Son, American Owned Love, Mystery Ride, The Geography of Desire, Crooked Hearts), two story collections ( Living to Be 100, Dancing in the Movies), and one play ( Tongues). He shares the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston with his wife, Antonya Nelson.

catherine bowman is the author of two poetry collections, 1-800-HOT-RIBS and Rock Farm. She is the editor of Word of Mouth, poems featured on NPR's All Things Considered.

robert olen butler has published twelve books, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His new book of stories, Had a Good Time, which includes "The Grotto," is based on his collection of antique picture postcards and is due out in August.

nick carbó is the author of three books of poetry, El Grupo McDonald's (1995), Secret Asian Man (2000), and Andalusian Dog (2004), and the editor of three anthologies of Filipino and Filipino-American literature, Returning a Borrowed Tongue (1995), Babaylan (2000), and Pinoy Poetics (2004).

rachel carpenter's stories have been published in One Story, The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Her fiction has also appeared on the online sites The Atlantic Unbound and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and has been read on the BBC World Service's Short Story. She is at work on a novel and collection of stories.

lan samantha chang is the author of Hunger. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Hangzhou 1925" is the prologue to her novel Inheritance, which will be published in August by W.W. Norton.

scott coffel's work has appeared in many journals, including Salmagundi, The American Scholar, The Paris Review, Prarie Schooner, The Antioch Review, The Adirondack Review, Margie, Barrow Street, Seneca Review, and The Wallace Stevens Journal. He lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

michael collier's most recent book of poems is The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Along with Charles Baxter and Edward Hirsch, he co-edited the forthcoming A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations (Norton).

cynie cory's sonnet sequence, Clink Street, was runner-up in the 2003 T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry and twice a Four Way Books Prize finalist. Her first book, American Girl, was published earlier this year by New Issues.

jim daniels's most recent books are Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems (Wisconsin) and Detroit Tales, short fiction (Michigan State), both published in 2003.

pat de groot is represented in Provincetown by Albert Merola Gallery; in New York by Tibor de Nagy Gallery; and in West Hartford, Connecticut, by Brick Walk Books & Fine Art.

denise duhamel's most recent poetry collection is Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburg, 2001). She co-edited, with Nick Carbó, Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon (Anthology Press, 2002) and teaches creative writing at Florida International University.

stuart dybek's most recent book of fiction is I Sailed with Magellan (FSG, 2003). A new book of poems, Streets in Their Own Ink, is scheduled for publication in fall 2004.

eric elshtain is the poetry editor for Chicago Review and a Ph.D. student in the University of Chicago's Committee on the History of Culture. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bathhouse, Denver Quarterly, Salt Hill, McSweeney's, Interim, and other journals. Two chapbooks, 72 Malignant Spirits and Five Poems & Five Blues, may be found at beardofbees.com.

beth ann fennelly has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the NEA. Her book Open House won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize for a First Book and the GLCA New Writers Award. Her new book, Tender Hooks, was published in April 2004 by W.W. Norton.

daisy fried's first book of poems, She Didn't Mean to Do It, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the Pew and Leeway foundations, she teaches in Warren Wilson College's M.F.A. program, at Haverford College, and at the University of Pennsylvania. She will be a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University in 2004–2005.

john gallaher is the author of the poetry collection Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (2001). He lives and works in Missouri, where he is a co-editor, starting with the 2004 issues, of The Laurel Review.

robert gibb's last book of poems, The Origins of Evening, was a National Poetry Series winner, selected by Eavan Boland. His new book, The Burning World, has just been published by the University of Arkansas Press.

barbara hamby's third book of poems, Babel, was chosen by Stephen Dunn to win the 2003 AWP/Donald Hall Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the fall of 2004. She teaches in the creative writing program at Florida State University.

kerry hardie lives in Kilkenny, Ireland. Her collections A Furious Place, Cry for the Hot Belly, and The Sky Didn't Fall were published by Gallery Press. She is the winner of the National Poetry Prize (Ireland). Her first novel, A Winter Marriage, was published by Little, Brown in 2002, and her second novel is due in 2005.

james harms is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which is Freeways and Aqueducts (Carnegie Mellon, 2004). He directs the M.F.A. program at West Virginia University and the West Virginia Writers' Workshop, a summer conference.

lola haskins's Desire Lines, New and Selected Poems, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in June 2004. Her poetry has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Christian Science Monitor, The London Review of Books, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

bob hicok's most recent collection, Animal Soul, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Insomnia Diary will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in spring 2004. He teaches at Virginia Tech.

tony hoagland's third collection, What Narcissism Means to Me, is recently out from Graywolf Press. He is now teaching at the University of Houston and completing a book of prose about poetry.

tung-hui hU studies architecture and film at the University of California, Berkeley. His first collection of poems is The Book of Motion (Georgia).

susan hutton recently finished a Stegner Fellowship. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several journals, including DoubleTake, Crazyhorse, New England Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review. She lives in Pittsburgh and is the Associate Publisher at Autumn House Press.

jonathan johnson is the author of Mastodon, 80% Complete (poems) and the forthcoming nonfiction book Hannah and the Mountain: Notes Toward a Wilderness Fatherhood. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at Eastern Washington University and lives off and on in Marquette, Michigan, and a remote cabin in Idaho.

peter johnson's latest book of prose poems, Miracles & Mortifications, received the 2001 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. I'm a Man, a collection of short stories, was published by White Pine Press in the fall of 2003.

david keplinger's The Clearing will appear from New Issues Press in 2005. His first book, The Rose Inside, won the 1999 T. S. Eliot Prize. His essays, translations, and poems have recently appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The American Voice, and elsewhere. In 2003, he received an NEA fellowship.

david kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Professor of English at Florida State University. His new collection, The Ha-Ha, was recently published in LSU Press's Southern Messenger Poetry Series. He is married to the poet Barbara Hamby and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

bill knott was born in Carson City, Michigan. His collection The Unsubscriber will be published in October by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

sarah manguso is the author of The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James, 2002). She is currently a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.

dionisio d. martínez is the author of four volumes of poetry, including Climbing Back, a National Poetry Series selection, and Bad Alchemy, both from Norton. He has been the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Whiting fellowships. New work appears in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, Tampa Review, and elsewhere.

rita maria martinez lives in Miami and is a graduate of Florida International University's M.F.A. program. Her poems have appeared in Vox, Gulf Stream Magazine, and Diagram. She is currently working on an extended lyrical narrative entitled Virgen de Recuerdos.

jean monahan is the author of Hands (Anhinga Press Prize, 1992), Believe It or Not (Orchises, 1999), and Same Difference and Eighteenth Century Zebra (both finalists for major prizes). She has been published widely in journals. She currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts, and combines adjunct teaching and freelance copywriting.

ander monson's novel-in-stories, Other Electricities, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2005. His poetry manuscript, Elegies for Descent and Dreams of Weather, won the Editor's Prize in the 2003 Tupelo Press first book contest and is forthcoming.

rick moody is the author most recently of The Black Veil and Demonology.

william olsen's most recent book of poetry is Trouble Lights. Along with Sharon Bryan, he co-edited Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life. He teaches at Western Michigan University and Vermont College.

barbara j. orton's poems appear in The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois), a web chapbook (theliteraryreview.org), New Voices (Academy of American Poets), and journals such as The Yale Review, Pleiades, Slope, and Verse. Her book manuscript, Stealing the Silver, is in circulation. She lives in Washington, D.C.

alan michael parker is the author of three books of poetry, including Love Song with Motor Vehicles (BOA, 2003). The University Press of Mississippi will publish his first novel, And the Man Walks Home, in 2005. He teaches at Davidson College and in Queens University's low-residency M.F.A. program.

ricardo pau-llosa's fifth poetry collection, The Mastery Impulse, was published in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon, as were his two previous books. An interview with him appears in The Poet's Truth (Arizona, 2003). He has new work in TriQuarterly, The Southern Review, Manoa, and other magazines.

kevin prufer's third book, Fallen from a Chariot, is forthcoming in 2005 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. He lives in rural Missouri, where he edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.

maureen seaton's fifth collection of poetry, Venus Examines Her Breast, is recently out from Carnegie Mellon University Press (2004). She directs the creative writing program at the University of Miami.

jay snodgrass is the author of Monster Zero (Elixir). He received his M.F.A. from Florida International University.

eleanor stanford is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia. She has an M.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin and spent two years with the Peace Corps in Cape Verde. She has poems published or forthcoming in Poetry, Callaloo, Indiana Review, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and other journals.

virgil suárez was born in Cuba in 1962. He is the author of the forthcoming 90 Miles: Selected and New, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. This year his work was selected for The Best American Poetry series.

jennifer tseng's work has appeared in Barrow Street and Zyzzyva and is forthcoming in The Spoon River Poetry Review. She was twice a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and recently received a Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation.

chase twichell is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Snow Watcher (Ontario Review Press, 1998). The Lover of God, by Rabindranath Tagore,co-translated with Tony K. Stewart, is just out from Copper Canyon Press.

karen volkman's books of poetry include Crash's Law (Norton, 1996) and Spar, which received the Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2002 James Laughlin Award. Recent poems can be found in Chicago Review, Boston Review, and Denver Quarterly.

charles harper webb's latest book of poems, Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies, was published in 2001 by BOA Editions. He is the editor of Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology (Iowa, 2002). Recipient of grants from the Whiting and Guggenheim foundations, he teaches at California State University, Long Beach.

cynthia weiner's work has appeared in Open City, 5 Trope, and The Ensign Literary Review. She teaches at The Writers Studio in New York City and is working on a collection of short stories.

kevin young's books include Jelly Roll: A Blues, a National Book Award finalist; To Repel Ghosts, a finalist for the James Laughlin Award; and Most Way Home, which won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. He is currently Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University.