Contributors' Notes
MASTHEAD
Directors
DeWitt Henry
Peter O'Malley
Coordinating Editor for This Issue
DeWitt Henry
CONTRIBUTORS
DAVID BOSWORTH lives in Cambridge. His short fiction has appeared in
The Ohio Review, The Antioch Review and
The Agni Review, and his non-fiction in
The Antioch Review. He has been awarded an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship for 1979-80.
R. V. CASSILL teaches at Brown. He is the author of
Pretty Leslie, Dr. Cobb's Game, The Goss Woman, and the forthcoming
Labors of Love, "a novel about a `bigamous' monogamist, set in New York, Cincinnati and on Cape Cod," which grew out of the story published here.
MARILYN JEAN CONNER is a teaching fellow in creative writing at the University of Denver. "Bunco" is her first publication.
PHILIP DAMON has been on leave from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "Walt Disney Presents" is from a collection called
Growing Up in No Time now making the rounds; he has also recently completed a novel called
Life Begins at Midnight. His stories have appeared in
Ploughshares (4/4),
Antaeus, Iowa Review, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.
SUSAN ENGBERG'S stories have appeared in a number of quarterlies and have been reprinted in
Prize Stories: The O'Henry Awards for 1969, 1977, and 1978. She lives in Milwaukee.
KENNETH GEWERTZ teaches at Western New England College in Springfield; in addition to this story, he has others due soon in
The Carleton Miscellany and the
Massachusetts Review. He is currently at work on a novel.
IVY GOODMAN'S stories have appeared in
Fiction, Sun & Moon, Kayak, Minnesota Review, The Ark River Review and other little magazines. She has been a Mirrielees Fellow in writing at Stanford, and this year is a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
WILLIAM HALLBERG teaches creative writing at Louisiana State University, and his "stories have appeared in several nice quarterlies, and some others notable mostly for their obscurity."
DAVID HUDDLE is the author of a collection of stories,
A Dream With No Stump On It (Missouri, 1975), and a book of poems,
Paper Boy (Pittsburgh, 1979). He teachers at the University of Vermont, and appeared previously in
Ploughshares (4/4).
HELEN HUDSON is the author of a collection of stories,
The Listener and Other Stories, and three novels,
Tell The Time To None; Meyer, Meyer; and
Farnsbee South. She lives in New Haven, CT.
LEW MCCREARY lives in Newburyport, MA and appeared previously in
Ploughshares (4/2).
JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS'S collection of stories,
Black Tickets, was published this fall by Seymour Lawrence/Delacorte. She is a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Ploughshares, Inc. announces
THE PLOUGHSHARES COLLECTION
a selection of local, national and international "little" magazines and books of poetry and fiction from "alternative" presses now on loan to the public at the Watertown Public Library, 123 Main Street, Watertown, Mass., Mon. through Thurs., 9-9, Fri., Sat. 9-6, Sun. 3-5. Included are some fifty magazines of small circulation, which focus on contemporary poetry, fiction, criticism and the arts, and many of which remain unavailable outside of major university collections, and books and chapbooks either by local writers or published by local non-commercial presses. It is hoped that public loan of the collection will prove a valuable resource both for writers and readers in Watertown and surrounding communities. For further information phone 926-4174 or write Ploughshares, Inc., 72 Westminster St., Watertown, Mass. 02172.