Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor

Joyce Peseroff

CONTRIBUTORS

J. Bernlef, one of Holland's most prolific writers, has had 50 books published since 1960, and besides novels, short stories and poems, writes music as well. His latest novel is
Ijsbergen (Icebergs).

T. Alan Broughton is a Guggenheim fellow for 1982. He teaches at the University of Vermont and is the author of five books of poetry, book of stories, and three novels,
A Family Gathering, Winter Journey, and most recently,
The Horsemaster (Dutton, 1981).

Rosellen Brown's latest novel is
Tender Mercies. She teaches at the University of Houston. Knopf will publish
Civil Wars.

Janet Desaulniers graduated recently from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches at the University of Missouri, where she is an Associate Editor of
The Missouri Review. Her first published story appeared in
The New Yorker and she is working on a collection of short fiction.

Andre Dubus teaches at Bradford College. He has published three story collections with David R. Godine, most recently,
Finding A Girl In America. A fourth,
The Times Are Never So Bad, is expected in 1983.

Gayl Jones is currently Associate Professor of English and Afro-American Literature at University of Michigan. Her most recent book is
Song For Anninho, poetry (Lotus Press, 1981), and
The Hermit-Woman, poetry, is forthcoming (Lotus Press, 1983).
Palmares is her third novel.

David Low is a recipient of a 1981-82 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His fiction has appeared in
Intro, Kansas Quarterly, Choice, and
Missippi Review.

Lew McCreary has been working as a paralegal advisor at the Deer Island Correctional Facility. An earlier excerpt from his novel appeared in
Ploughshares 5/4, and his stories have appeared in
North American Review and
Ploughshares.

Sue Miller has had stories in
Ploughshares, North American Review, The Boston Globe Magazine and
The Atlantic Monthly. She is working on a novel.

Pamela Painter has published stories in
Intro, Kansas Quarterly, December, North American Review, Transatlantic Review and others. She is a founding editor of
Story Quarterly.

Joe Ashby Porter teaches at Duke University, where he directs the Writers' Conference. His novel,
Eelgrass was issued in 1977 by New Directions, and his stories have appeared in
Pushcart Prize IV, Antaeus, Sun and Moon, TriQuarterly and others.

Jack Pulaski has taught at Goddard and published stories and excerpts in
Ploughshares 4/1, Ohio Review, Pushcart Prize I, and others. His story collection is looking for a publisher.

Frank Scimone works in the Netherlands as a free-lance journalist and translator. His translation of J. Bernlef is sponsored by the Foundation for the Promotion of the Translation of Dutch Literary Works.

Gayle Whittier teaches at SUNY Binghamton: Her fiction has appeared in the
Massachusetts Review and
The Pushcart Prize VI.

Al Young is the author of numerous books, including
Ask Me Now and
The Blues Don't Change: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press).
Seduction By Light, his fifth novel, will be brought out next year by Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence. He is currently Distinguished Mellon Professor of Humanities at Rice University.