Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor

C. D. Wright

Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Gregg Rosenblum

Associate Fiction Editor

Maryanne O'Hara

Associate Poetry Editor

Susan Conley

Founding Editor

DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Assistant Fiction Editors: Jay Baron Nicorvo and Nicole Kelley.
Editorial Assistants: Patricia Reed and Kathleen Rooney.
Proofreader: Megan Weireter.

Poetry Readers: Megan Weireter, Simeon Berry, Jennifer Thurber, Scott Withiam, Erin Lavelle, Robert Arnold, Zachary Sifuentes, Joanne Diaz, and Tracy Gavel.
Fiction Readers: Megan Weireter, Eson Kim, Maureen Cidzik, Wendy Wunder, Erin Lavelle, Leslie Cauldwell, Christopher Helmuth, Coppelia Liebenthal, Laura Tarvin, Hannah Bottomy, Cortney Hamilton, Simeon Berry, James Charlesworth, Joanna Luloff, Michelle Mulder, Asako Serizawa, Michael Rainho, and Jeffrey Voccola.

CONTRIBUTORS

sophie cabot black's poems have appeared in
The Atlantic,
The Partisan
Review, and
The American Poetry Review, among other journals. Her book,
The Misunderstanding of
Nature, was published by Graywolf Press in 1994. She currently teaches at Columbia University.

star black is the author of four books of poems:
Double Time,
Waterworn, October for Idas, and
Balefire. She works in New York City as a photographer and visual artist.

dana bonstrom is the author of a novel,
Saint Urho's Passage; four screenplays; and the libretti for two works for orchestra, composed by his frequent collaborator Michael Gandolfi,
Pinocchio's Adventures in Funland (recently performed at the Ojai and Tanglewood festivals) and
Gwendolyn Gets Her Wish (commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and adapted from his original story).

lisa bourbeau's work has appeared in
First Intensity,
Nedge, and the Turkish
Edebiyat Ve Elestiri. Her first book,
Of Spider Light, A Moonshell, is forthcoming from First Intensity Press in 2003. Recipient of the 2003 New Hampshire Individual Artist Fellowship for poetry, she is President of GFS Building Maintenance, Inc.

stephen burt's volume of poetry,
Popular Music, won the Colorado Prize for 1999. His verse has appeared in
Agni, American Letters &
Commentary, Boston Review, Jacket, The Paris Review, and
Thumbscrew, among other journals. His critical study,
Randall Jarrell and His Age, will appear from Columbia University Press in late 2002.

richard chetwynd received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches writing and literature at Emerson College's European Center. His poems have appeared in
Coe Review, Cape Rock, Kiosk, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He lives half the year in the Ziemia Chelminska region of Poland with his wife, the sculptor Barbara Jocz.

basil cleveland is currently a doctoral student in the University Professors Program at Boston University. His research focuses on Hegel and modern aesthetics. His poetry has been published in a variety of literary journals, including recent issues of
The MacGuffin,
International Poetry Review, and
Flint Hills Review.

caroline crumpacker lives in New York City. She is a poetry editor for
Fence magazine and a contributing editor for
DoubleChange, an online magazine of French and American poetry. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including
Boston Review, Chicago Review,
Denver Quarterly, The Germ, and
Volt.

stacey d'erasmo is the author of the novel
Tea. Her nonfiction work has appeared in
The Nation, The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, and
The New York Times Magazine. She is currently at work on her second novel.

chard deniord's poems and essays have appeared in
The Pushcart Prize XXII,
Harvard Review,
The Best American Poetry
1999,
Agni, The Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, and
Ploughshares. He is the author of
Asleep in the Fire and
Sharp Golden Thorn, forthcoming from Marsh Hawk Press. He teaches at Providence College, and directs the new low-residency M.F.A. program at New England College.

patrick donnelly is an associate editor at
Four Way Books, and will graduate from the M.F.A. program in poetry at Warren Wilson College in January 2003. His writing has appeared in
The Virginia Quarterly
Review, The Marlboro Review, and
Beloit Poetry Journal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

dan featherston edits
A.BACUS and is co-editing an anthology of Pacific Rim poetry with Susan Schultz. He has recent and forthcoming poetry in
Antennae,
First Intensity, Range, and
Sulfur. His chapbooks include
Anatomies, Rooms,
26
Islands, and
The Clock Maker's Memoir: 1-12.

thalia field's collection,
Point and Line, is available from New Directions.
ULULU (Shrapnel Scenes) is forthcoming from Coffee House Press in 2005.

nick flynn's second book of poems,
Blind Huber, was recently published by Graywolf Press. This year he was the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

kevin goodan was raised in the mountains of Western Montana. Currently he resides on a small farm in Western Massachusetts.

ethan hauser has published fiction in
Esquire, Playboy, The Antioch
Review, and previously in
Ploughshares. He lives in New York City.

stratis haviaras is the author of two novels and two collections of poems in English, and four collections of poems in Greek. He has completed the manuscript for a new novel,
The Telling.

thomas heise's poetry has appeared in
The Cream City Review, Indiana
Review, The Journal, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and
Borderlands. His recently completed poetry manuscript was a finalist for the Ohio State University Press/
The Journal Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Book Award.

brent hendricks is of Native American and European descent, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Arizona's creative writing program. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines, including
Poetry, The Southern Review, The Iowa Review, Bomb, and
First Intensity.

h. l. hix's most recent poetry collections are
Surely as Birds Fly and
Rational Numbers. His collection of essays on poetry,
As Easy as Lying, was published by Etruscan Press.

laird hunt is the author of a book of short stories, mock parables, and histories,
The Paris Stories (Smokeproof), and a novel,
The Impossibly (Coffee House). His writings have appeared in, among other places,
Grand Street, Fence, Conjunctions, and
Brick. He recently moved to Boulder, Colorado, to join the faculty of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

colette inez's latest book is
Clemency (Carnegie Mellon, 1998). She has won two Pushcart Prizes, and has received fellowships from the NEA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations. She teaches at Columbia University's Writing Program in the School of General Studies.

j. l. jacobs graduated from Brown University's M.F.A. program in 1992 and currently teaches writing at the University of Oklahoma. Her work has appeared in such publications as
New American Writing, New Orleans Review, and
American Letters & Commentary. Her books include
Varieties of Inflorescence (Leave, 1992) and
The Leaves in Her Shoes (Lost Roads, 1999).

christopher janke teaches writing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he graduated with his M.F.A. in 2001. He is Senior Editor of Slope Editions, and his poems appear in
Verse, New Orleans Review, Phoebe, and other journals.

valerie laken received her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Michigan. This is her first published story.

ben lerner is originally from Topeka, Kansas. Other
Lichtenburg Figures can be found in recent or shortly forthcoming editions of
The Paris Review, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Beloit Poetry Journal, and
Post Road.

jennifer martenson is the author of
Xq28
² (Burning Deck, 2001). Her poems have appeared in
Re: Chapbook Four (Reference Press, 1999) and several magazines, including
Insurance and
How2. She has lived in Seattle and Chicago and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

rob mclennan is an Ottawa, Ontario-based poet, editor, and publisher. His seventh poetry collection is
Paper Hotel (Broken Jaw), and he is the editor of
side/lines: a poetics (Insomniac) and
evergreen: six
new poets (Black Moss).

erín moure's ninth and tenth books of poetry are
O Cidadán (Anansi, Toronto, 2002), an exploration of what it means to be a citizen, and
Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person: A Translation of Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa's O Guardador de Rebanhos (Anansi, 2001). She works as a translator in Montreal.

josip novakovich, who teaches at Pennsylvania State University, has a novel forthcoming with TriQuarterly Press. His collection of stories,
Salvation and Other Disasters, won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. "The Stamp" was written during a 2001-02 writing fellowship at the New York Public Library.

elizabeth scanlon is Associate Editor of
The American Poetry
Review and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship recipient for 2002. Her poems have recently appeared in
Painted Bride Quarterly, CrossConnect, Colorado Review, and
The Journal. She lives in Philadelphia.

david semanki's work has been published or is forthcoming in
The New
Yorker, The Paris Review, Agni, New England Review, and
The New York
Times Book Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

eleni sikelianos's most recent book of poems is
Earliest Worlds (Coffee House, 2001).
Footnote to the Lambs was recently selected for the National Poetry Series and will be published by Green Integer. The recipient of a Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University and a New York Foundation for the Arts Award, she is currently teaching at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

meredith steinbach has published three novels,
Zara, Here Lies the Water, and
The Birth of the World as We Know It; Or Teiresias, and a collection of stories,
Reliable Light. Another novel,
To Be Sung o
n the Water, is forthcoming. She has received an O. Henry Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the NEA and the Bunting and Watson institutes. She is a professor of English at Brown University.

bill sweeney's poems have recently appeared in
Poetry, Ploughshares, ACM, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron, The Greensboro Review, The Atlanta Review, and other journals.

dorothea tanning is an artist and writer. Her poems have appeared in
The New Republic, Poetry, The Partisan Review,
The New Yorker, and
The Best American Poetry 2000. Her memoir,
Between Lives, was recently published by W.W. Norton. For twenty-eight years, she lived and worked in Paris, and now makes her home in New York City.

mallory tarses has published stories in
The North American Review, Prism International, The Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, and
The Five Fingers Review. The recipient of numerous awards and grants, she lives beside the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, North Carolina.

brian teare has published poetry in
Boston Review, Colorado Review,
Volt, and
Pleiades, among other journals, and has taught writing and literature at Stanford and Indiana universities. A former Stegner Fellow, he will be the 2003 Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University.

margot voorhies thompson is a painter, printmaker and calligrapher. She uses a mixture of collage, drawing, and painting on handmade paper or canvas. She has shown in numerous exhibitions nationally, and her work is included in the collections of the Portland Art Museum; the Lakeview Museum in Peoria, Illinois; the Stanford University Hospital; and the Printmaking Workshop in New York. Her next exhibition will be at The Laura Russo Gallery in Portland in May 2003.

sam truitt's books include
Anamorphosis Eisenhower (Lost Roads, 1998) and
Vertical Elegies 5: The Section (Georgia, 2003). He lives and works in New York City.

nance van winckel's fourth collection of poems,
Beside Ourselves, is just out from Miami University Press. She is the author of three collections of fiction, most recently
Curtain Creek Farm (Persea, 2000). A recipient of two NEA fellowships, she teaches in the M.F.A. programs at Eastern Washington University and Vermont College.

yiannis varveris is the author of eight books of poetry (also collected in
Poems 1975-1996). In 1996, he won the Greek State Award for criticism and the essay, and in 2001 the Cavafy Prize. His collection of poems
Mister Fogg was translated into English by Philip Ramp.

liz waldner's new books are
Self and Simulacra, which won the 2001 Hawley Prize from Alice James Books and was a PEN Center finalist for 2002;
Etym(bi)ology (Omnidawn, 2002); and
Dark Would
(The Missing Person), which was a 2002 winner in the University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry series.