Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editors

Robert Boswell & Ellen Bryant Voigt

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editors

Susan Conley & Jodee Stanley

Assistant Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Editorial Assistants: Matt Stark, Jessica Olin, Heidi Pitlor, and Nathaniel Bellows.
Fiction Readers: Billie Lydia Porter, Craig Salters, Monique Hamzé, Michael Rainho, John Rubins, Tammy Zambo, Joseph Connolly, Todd Cooper, Emily Doherty, Holly LeCraw Howe, Barbara Lewis, David Rowell, Kevin Supples, and Karen Wise.
Poetry Readers: R. J. Lavalee, Richard Morris, Renee Rooks, Michael Henry, Jessica Purdy, Brijit Brown, Bethany Daniel, Tom Laughlin, Lori Novick, Ellen Scharfenberg, and Lisa Sewell.

CONTRIBUTORS

dick allen's
Ode to the Cold War: Poems New and Selected is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in April 1997. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and his poems have been included in several recent volumes of
Best American Poetry. He directs the creative writing program at the University of Bridgeport.

claudia emerson andrews's first book of poems,
Pharaoh, Pharaoh, will be published in the spring of 1997 as part of Louisiana State University's new signature series, Southern Messenger Poets, edited by Dave Smith. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in
Poetry, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Crazyhorse, and other journals. A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts, she lives in Chatham, Virginia.

sally ball is a graduate of Warren Wilson College and lives in St. Louis, where she works at Washington University's International Writers Center. Her work has appeared in
Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, and
Best American Poetry 1995.

andrea barrett is the author of four novels and, most recently, a collection of short fiction,
Ship Fever & Other Stories (Norton, 1996), which was nominated for a National Book Award. Other stories about the Marburg sisters have appeared in
Story ("Agnes at Night" and "The Mysteries of Ubiquitin") and
New England Review ("The Marburg Sisters"). She lives in Rochester, New York.

dinah berland's poems have appeared in
The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Ploughshares, and anthologies including
Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America (Penguin USA, 1996). She received her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College in 1995 and works as Publications Coordinator at the Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles.

steven cramer has published two collections of poetry
, The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987) and
The World Book (1992), and has finished a third collection entitled
Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand, which will be published by Lumen Editions in 1997.He teaches literature and writing at Bennington College.

chard deniord is the author of
Asleep in the Fire, which was published by the University of Alabama in 1990. His poems have appeared recently in
The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Magazine, Pequod, Ploughshares, Poetry East, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and
Agni. He teaches comparative religions, philosophy, and English at the Putney School.

carl dennis lives in Buffalo, where he teaches in the English department of SUNY at Buffalo. The poems in this issue are part of a manuscript entitled
Ranking the Wishes that Penguin will be publishing in May 1997.

stuart dischell's poems will appear in his new book,
Evenings and Avenues, which will be published by Penguin.

stephen dobyns is the author of nine books of poetry and seventeen novels. His most recent book of poems is
Common Carnage (Viking), and his latest novel is
Saratoga Fleshpot (Norton). His book of essays on poetry,
Best Words, Best Order, was published by St. Martin's Press last summer. He lives in Watertown, Massachusetts.

lynn emanuel is the author of two books of poetry,
Hotel Fiesta and
The Dig. She has received two NEA fellowships, the National Poetry Series Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. With David St. John, she was poetry editor for the 1994-95 edition of
The Pushcart Prize. Currently, she is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in journals such as
Parnassus, Poetry, The Hudson Review, and
Ploughshares, and also was included in
Best American Poetry 1995,edited by Richard Howard.

caroline finkelstein is the author of
Windows Facing East (Dragon Gate, 1986) and
Germany (Carnegie-Mellon, 1995). She recently completed a third collection,
Justice.

carol frost's new book of poems,
Venus and Don Juan, is forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books. The recipient of two fellowships from the NEA, she is Writer-in-Residence at Hartwick College.

greg grummer manufactures and sells kits used to produce handmade paper for his family's business. He has published in many reviews and quarterlies, including
The American Poetry Review, The Plum Review, Ploughshares, Fine Madness, and
Indiana Review.

donald hall's latest book of poems,
The Old Life, came out earlier this year. "Letter with No Address" is directed toward his late wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in April 1995.

paul jenkins's new book,
Radio Tooth, won Four Way Books' Award Series Prize-judged by Alberto Ríos-and will be published in the spring of 1997. His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in
The Gettysburg Review, Grand Street, and
The New Yorker. He teaches poetry and writing at Hampshire College and is an editor of
The Massachusetts Review.

alice jones won the 1992 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books for her book,
The Knot. Her poems have appeared in
Poetry, Pequod, The Kenyon Review, and
Best American Poetry 1994. She received a poetry fellowship from the NEA in 1994.

sue kwock kim is a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have been published in
Poetry, The Nation, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Western Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, Mudfish, and the online magazine
Salon, among other places.
Private Property, a play she co-wrote, was produced at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

laurie kutchins has had poems published in
Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and numerous other periodicals. Her second book,
The Night Path, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in 1997. She currently lives and teaches in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

thomas lux teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. His
New and Selected Poems will be published by Houghton Mifflin in early 1997.

campbell mcgrath's new book of poems is
Spring Comes to Chicago, which has just been published by Ecco Press. He teaches at Florida International University and lives in Miami Beach with his family.

christopher "kit" mcilroy's short story collection,
All My Relations, won the 1992 Flannery O'Connor Award and was published by University of Georgia Press. He is the program director of ArtsReach, a nonprofit corporation based in Tucson, Arizona, that conducts writing residencies and workshops in Native American communities.

kevin mcilvoy is the editor in chief of
Puerto del Sol. He has published three novels:
A Waltz (Lynx House),
The Fifth Station (Algonquin), and
Little Peg (Atheneum). His most recent work appeared in
Blue Mesa Review, The Chariton Review, and
TriQuarterly.

leslie adrienne miller's new collection of poems,
Yesterday Had a Man in It, is forthcoming from Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1997. She is also the author of
Ungodliness,
Staying Up for Love, and
No River. She has published in a number of magazines and anthologies, including
The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and
The Georgia Review. Currently she is an associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

steve orlen's most recent book of poetry is
The Bridge of Sighs, published by Miami University Press in Ohio. A new book will be published by Miami in 1997, and new poems are forthcoming in
The Gettysburg Review and
The Yale Review. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson and in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College.

gregory orr's most recent collection is
City of Salt (Pittsburgh, 1995). His first book,
Burning the Empty Nests, will soon be reissued by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in its Contemporary Classics series. He is co-editor, with Ellen Bryant Voigt, of the essay collection
Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World (Michigan, 1996). He is married to the painter Trisha Orr.

trisha orr exhibits at the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery in New York City (solo show, December 1996).She has received fellowships from the Mid-Atlantic/NEA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Portfolios of her work have been published in
The Georgia Review (Summer 1995) and the upcoming
New American Paintings VIII (Open Studios Press). She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

lucia perillo's second book of poems,
The Body Mutinies, was published by Purdue University Press in 1996. Her previous book,
Dangerous Life, was published by Northeastern University Press in 1989 and received the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber Award for the best first book of that year.

joyce peseroff is the author, most recently, of
A Dog in the Lifeboat (Carnegie-Mellon).

clenn reed, a native of western New York, graduated from the University of Akron and recently earned an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. He now lives in New York City and teaches at Sarah Lawrence. His work appeared in recent issues of
Alaska Quarterly Review and
Faultline.

martha rhodes is the author of the collections
At the Gate (Provincetown Arts, 1995) and the forthcoming
Perfect Disappearance. She is one of the founding editors of Four Way Books and a member of the writing faculty at The New School in New York City, where she resides.

kenneth rosen of Portland, Maine, recently concluded his tenure as Walter E. Russell Chair of Education and Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine with the public talk "A Spy in the House of the Thought Police." New poems have appeared in
The Paris Review, Agni, and
The Massachusetts Review, and in the collection
No Snake, No Paradise.

steven schwartz is the author of two collections of stories,
To Leningrad in Winter (1985) and
Lives of the Fathers (1991), and a novel,
Therapy (1994). His new novel,
Shred of God, will be published by William Morrow in 1998. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, where he teaches writing at Colorado State University.

elizabeth searle's story, "Why We're Here," was adapted from a chapter of her first novel,
A Four-Sided Bed, which is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 1997. Other excerpts have appeared in
Agni, The Kenyon Review, and the anthologies
Lovers and
American Fiction. Her story collection,
My Body to You, won the 1992 Iowa Short Fiction Prize. A former special education teacher, she now teaches in the graduate writing program at Emerson College.

alan shapiro's most recent book of poems,
Mixed Company, was published in the spring of 1996 by the University of Chicago Press. His memoir,
The Last Happy Occasion (Chicago),appeared in the fall of 1996.

faith shearin received her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1993 and recently completed two consecutive years of fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A recipient of awards from the Michigan Young Playwright's Festival, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, the Ann M. Kaufmann Fund, and Bread Loaf, she has published in a number of journals, including
Shankpainter, The Women's Studies Quarterly, and
The Chicago Review.

gary short is the author of two books of poems,
Theory of Twilight (Ahsahta) and
Flying Over Sonny Liston (Nevada), which received the 1996 Western States Book Award. His poems have appeared recently in
The Antioch Review and
Poetry. He lives in American Flat, Nevada, population nine.

ralph sneeden has work forthcoming in
The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, New Virginia Review, Portsmouth Review, and
The Second Set (Indiana),an anthology of jazz-related poetry. "Off Little Misery Island
" is the title poem of his book-length manuscript. He teaches in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife and three children.

lisa russ spaar's work has appeared in
Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She has published two chapbooks, and her new manuscript,
Rapunzel's Clock, won a 1996 Virginia Commission for the Arts award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia, where she administers the M.F.A. program.

nance van winckel's second collection of poems,
The Dirt (Miami), was published in 1994. New poems appear in
The North American Review, Denver Quarterly, and
The Paris Review. She is also the author of two collections of fiction,
Limited Lifetime Warranty (1994) and the forthcoming
Quake, both from University of Missouri Press. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Eastern Washington University.

ellen doré watson's full-length collection,
We Live in Bodies, will be published in February by Alice James Books. New poems are forthcoming in
Prairie Schooner and
The New Yorker. She also translates Brazilian literature, including the poems of Adélia Prado (
The Alphabet in the Park, Wesleyan), and serves as the translation editor of
The Massachusetts Review.

kathleene west is the poetry editor of
Puerto del Sol. She has published seven books of poetry and fiction, of which two are in print:
Water Witching (Copper Canyon) and
The Farmer's Daughter (Sandhills). New work is forthcoming in
Alaska Quarterly Review and
The Muse Strikes Back! (Story Line).

renate wood's collection of poems,
Raised Underground, was published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press in 1991. The recipient of a grant from the Colorado Council on the Arts and of the 1995 Emily Clark Balch Prize from
The Virginia Quarterly Review, she teaches in the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College.

jody zorgdrager, a recent grant recipient from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, has poems forthcoming in
The Literary Review and
The Antioch Review. Currently she teaches English literature at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Massachusetts.