Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Jessica Dineen

Editorial Assistant

Jodee Stanley

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff Assistants: Brijit Brown and Matt Jones.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Esther Crain, Michael Rainho, Maranne O'Hara, Lee Harrington, Karen Wise, Elizabeth Rourke, Stephanie Booth, Jodee Stanley, David Rowell, Barbara Lewis, Phillip Carson, Holly LeCraw Howe, Christine Flanagan, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, Kim Reynolds, Kevin Supples, and Joseph Connolly. 
Poetry Readers: Bethany Daniel, Jason Rogers, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, Rachel Piccione, Renee Rooks, Tanja Brull, Susan Rich, Tom Laughlin, Karen Voelker, Leslie Haynes, and Rebecca Lavine. 
Phone-a-Poem Coordinator: Joyce Peseroff.

CONTRIBUTORS

ally acker's first collection of poems,
Surviving Desire, has just been released through Garden Street Press. She is also the author of
Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema (Continuum), as well as the director of ten accompanying film documentaries. She lives in McLean, Virginia.

christianne balk's second book,
Desiring Flight, won the 1994 Verna Emery Poetry Award. She has been the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant, an Alaska Council on the Arts travel grant, and a degree with honors in biology from Grinnell College. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and daughter.

bruce bennett, a member of the group of writers who founded
Ploughshares, is the author of several poetry chapbooks and three volumes of poems, most recently
Taking Off (Orchises, 1992). "Gertrude's Ear" is from his ongoing collection of fables,
Animal Rites. He teaches English and directs creative writing at Wells College in Aurora, New York.

robert bradley has published poetry and criticism in
The Gettysburg Review, Southern Poetry Review, Seneca Review, Poetry East, The Antioch Review, Plainsong, and
Painted Bride Quarterly. He lives near Nashville, Tennessee.

wendy brenner's story collection, tentatively titled
Large Animals in Everyday Life, won the Flannery O'Connor Award and will be published by the University of Georgia Press in late 1995. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.

bruce cohen is Director of the Counseling Program for Intercollegiate Athletes at the University of Connecticut. Recent poems have appeared in
The Greensboro Review, The Ohio Review, and
TriQuarterly. He lives in Coventry, Connecticut, with his wife and three sons.

michael daley's books include
The Straits, Angels, and
Yes Five Poems. He has work in recent issues of
Kansas Quarterly, Cumberland Review, Manoa, The Nebraska Review, and
The Tampa Review. He teaches philosophy and poetry classes at Mount Vernon High School in Washington State.

stuart dischell is the author of
Good Hope Road (Viking Penguin). He was recently awarded with a Pushcart Prize.

stephen dobyns is the author of eight books of poetry and sixteen novels. His most recent book of poems is
Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992 (Viking), and his latest novel is
Saratoga Backtalk (Norton). He teaches at Syracuse University and in the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College.

james duffy was born in New York City in 1960. The recipient of an M.F.A. in writing from Vermont College in 1994, he has been employed as a gas station attendant, farm worker, foot messenger, and professional housecleaner, and now works as a mental health counselor in New Rochelle, New York.

denise duhamel's
The Woman with Two Vaginas, a book of poetry based on Inuit folklore, is available from Salmon Run Publishers. She is also the author of
Smile! (Warm Spring, 1993) and the forthcoming
Girl Soldier (Garden Street, 1995). Her work can be seen in
The Best American Poetry 1994.

alice b. fogel is the author of two books of poetry,
Elemental and the forthcoming
I Love This Dark World. Her poems have appeared regularly in literary journals and anthologies, including
The Best American Poetry 1993. She teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

ian ganassi's poetry has appeared in numerous periodicals, including
The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and
Pequod, and is forthcoming in
The Gettysburg Review. He is seeking a publisher for his recently completed manuscript. He is a freelance writer, musician, and teacher, and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.

elizabeth gilbert had her first fiction publication last year in
Esquire, and is now a contributing editor at
Spin magazine. Currently at work on a novel, she lives in New York City.

michele glazer works in the Oregon Field Office of The Nature Conservancy. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in
College English, Delmar, Field, The Georgia Review, Ironwood, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, and
Sonora Review. She has completed one manuscript and is working on another.

h. l. hix was a winner of the 1994 Grolier Poetry Prize. His second philosophy book,
Spirits Hovering over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory, is forthcoming from SUNY Press.

tony hoagland's first collection,
Sweet Ruin, won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 1992. He teaches at Colby College and in the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College.

christine hume's work has appeared most recently in
Mudfish and
The Indiana Review. She recently relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, from New York City.

gish jen's short stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Short Stories, and numerous anthologies and journals. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Bunting Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Artists' Foundation, Copernicus Foundation, and Guggenheim Foundation. Her first novel,
Typical American, was nominated for a National Book Critics' Circle Award. She lives in Massachusetts.

jesse lee kercheval's story collection,
The Dogeater, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 1987. Her novel,
The Museum of Happiness, was published by Faber and Faber last year. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin.

david kirby is W. Guy McKenzie Professor of English at Florida State University. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Arts Council, he is the author or editor of sixteen books, including
Saving the Young Men of Vienna, which won the University of Wisconsin's Brittingham Prize in Poetry.

sheila kohler has published a collection of short stories,
Miracles in America, and two novels,
The Perfect Place and, most recently,
The House on R. Street, all with Knopf. Her story "The Mountain" appeared in
Prize Stories 1988: The O. Henry Awards.

norman laliberté's paintings, banners, drawings, prints, sculptures, and murals have been exhibited in over three hundred galleries and museums throughout the world. His work is in the permanent collections of sixty museums, including the Smithsonian Institute's Renwick Gallery, the Detroit Institute of the Arts, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Born in Massachusetts and raised in Montreal, Laliberté currently resides in Massachusetts. "Picture at an Exhibition" measures 5' x 9' and was created with oil stick on board in 1982.

john loughlin is a carpenter who teaches creative writing part time at Elgin Community College in Illinois. He has poems appearing in
Sonora Review and
Colorado Review, and is at work on his first collection.

melissa monroe lives and teaches in Boston, Massachusetts. She is working on a sequence, "Lives of the Robots," dealing with the mechanical replication of human activity throughout history. Other poems from this sequence have appeared in
The Kenyon Review.

c. l. rawlins has received a Stegner Fellowship and a Blanchan Memorial Award, as well as the Forest Service Primitive Skills Award for wilderness training. A recent prose book,
Sky's Witness: A Year in the Wind River Range (Henry Holt, 1993), will be followed by
In Gravity National Park, his second book of poems.

liam rector's book of poems,
American Prodigal, was published recently by Story Line Press. He directs the graduate writing seminars at Bennington College.

g. travis regier's stories and poems have appeared in a variety of publications, including
Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Amazing Stories, The American Scholar, Ploughshares, and
Poetry. He recently left his position teaching writing to study philosophy and literary theory at Ohio University.

david rivard is the author of
Tongue, winner of the Starett Poetry Prize. He teaches at Tufts University and in the M.F.A. program at Vermont College.

david romtvedt's books include
A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know (Copper Canyon, 1992), a National Poetry Series winner;
Crossing Wyoming (White Pine, 1992), a historical novel; and
Yip: A Cowboy's Howl (Holocene, 1991), a poetry collection of parody and homage. A new book of poems,
Certainty, is forthcoming in 1995 from White Pine Press. He lives in Buffalo, Wyoming.

mary ruefle is the author of three books of poems, the latest of which is
The Adamant, which co-won the Iowa Poetry Prize in 1989. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.

peter jay shippy teaches at Emerson College. His poems and reviews have appeared in
The Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Ploughshares, and other magazines.

maurya simon is the author of three volumes of poetry:
The Enchanted Room (Copper Canyon, 1986),
Days of Awe (Copper Canyon, 1990), and
Speaking in Tongues (Gibbs Smith, 1991). She has two new books of poetry appearing in 1995:
The Golden Labyrinth (Univ. of Missouri) and
Weavers (Blackbird). She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.

tom sleigh is the author of three books of poetry:
After One (Houghton Mifflin, 1983),
Waking, and
The Chain (Univ. of Chicago/Phoenix Poetry Series, 1990 and 1996, respectively). He currently holds a three-year Individual Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.

priscilla sneff has published poems in
The Yale Review, Sulfur, Partisan Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. In 1994 she received an NEA fellowship in poetry. She teaches composition and poetry writing at Tufts University.

peter virgilio's poems are from the manuscript-in-progress
Dreamobiles. He lives in the North End in Boston.

connie voisine has held a variety of jobs, including migrant field worker, waitress, welder's assistant, and teacher. She has published her work in
The Threepenny Review, Phoebe, New York Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is finishing a poetry manuscript about her upbringing on the French-Acadian border of Maine.

jason waldrop lives on a ranch near Sacramento, California. His poems and stories have appeared in
New Letters, Poetry Northwest, The Plum Review, Sequoia, and
Beloit Fiction Journal. His works-in-progress include a full-length screenplay and a collection of poems.

joan wickersham's fiction has appeared in
The Hudson Review,
Story, Best American Short Stories 1990, and
The Graywolf Annual Eight. Her first novel,
The Paper Anniversary, was published by Viking last year.

rosemary willey's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Poetry, Crazyhorse, The Green Mountain Review, The Indiana Review, and other journals. She is finishing her first manuscript,
Intended Place. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

jonah winter, a clarinet instructor, children's book author, used car salesman, horseman, and exotic male dancer, lives in a tin lean-to on the edge of San Francisco, where he is currently finishing his latest collection of poems,
Lyrical Ballads.

rodney wittwer's poems have been published in
The Antioch Review, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Madison Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. He lives in West Medford, Massachusetts, and is the Director of Operations for The Hub Group-Boston, a transportation logistics company.