Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editors for This Issue

Tim O'Brien

DeWitt Henry

CONTRIBUTORS

RICHARD BAUSCH is working on a novel,
Coldest Season, and teaches at Northern Virginia Community College.

PHILIP DAMON has had stories in
Antaeus, Iowa Review, Transatlantic Review, Hawaii Review, Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. He teaches at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

DAVID HUDDLE is the author of a collection of stories,
A Dream With No Stump In it (Missouri, 1975), and a book of poems,
Paper Boy (Pittsburgh, 1979). "The Undesirable" is part of a book he is working on this year with the assistance of a sabbatical leave from the University of Vermont and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.

GORDON LISH was fiction editor for eight years at
Esquire, where he once published a controversial story, "For Rupert-with No Promises." He is now an editor at Knopf and teaching a fiction writing course at Yale. The present story will be included in
Secrets High and Low, a collection of miscellaneous pieces due from Doubleday next year.

JOSEPH MAIOLO has published a nouvella,
Elverno (Blairwood Publishers, 1972), and is working on a collection of stories,
The Fatherless. A recipient of Minnesota Arts Board and National Endowment for the Arts fiction grants, he teaches at the University of Minnesota at Duluth.

STEPHEN MINOT'S new novel
Ghost Images is due this spring from Harper and Row. His collection of stories,
Crossings, was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1976. He teaches at Trinity College in Hartford.

JAY NEUGEBOREN'S most recent novels are
Sam's Legacy and
An Orphan's Tale. His stories have appeared in
Esquire, Transatlantic Review, Atlantic Monthly, TriQuarterly, Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Awards and elsewhere.

JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is teaching at Humboldt State College in California. Her story collection,
Black Tickets, will be published by Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte in the fall of 1979.

GORDON WEAVER chairs the English department at Oklahoma State University. His third collection of stories,
Morality Play: Fictions will be published by Seagull Publications in 1979. Other stories are forthcoming in
The Southern Review, Iowa Review, and
Antioch Review, and "Getting Serious" (
Sewanee Review, fall '77) has won first prize in the
O. Henry Awards 1979.

STEPHEN WOLF has published fiction in
Shenandoah and
the new renaissance. And while supporting himself with odd jobs, is at work on a novel. He lives in New York.