Contributors' Notes

contributors' notes

Winter 2005–06

ralph angel's Neither World received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. His third and most recent collection, Twice Removed, is available from Sarabande Books. A fourth collection, Exceptions and Melancholies, as well as his translation of Federico García Lorca's Poema del Cante Jondo, are forthcoming from Sarabande in 2006.

ann beattie is the author of seven novels and eight story collections, most recently Follies: New Stories (Scribner). She lives in Maine and Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.

marvin bell has retired from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and now teaches at two low-residency M.F.A. programs housed in the Northwest. He also leads an annual Urban Teachers Workshop for "America SCORES." He lives in Iowa City and Port Townsend, Washington. His latest book is Rampant.

charles bennett is an English poet who was resident in New England during a one-year scholarship and recently read at the University of California. His first collection, Wintergreen, was published in 2002. He lives and works in Ledbury, Herefordshire, where he is Director of the Ledbury Poetry Festival.

elena karina byrne's first book is The Flammable Bird (Zoo, 2002). Her just completed book is entitled Masque. She is Poetry Moderator for The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a teacher, and Literary Events Director for The Ruskin Art Club. Recent publications include The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, and The Best American Poetry 2005.

ron carlson's most recent book is his selected stories, A Kind of Flying. His new novel will be published in 2006.

michael collier's most recent collection of poems, Dark Wild Realm, will be published in spring 2006 with Houghton Mifflin, and his translation of Medea in summer 2006 with Oxford University Press.

cathy colman's book Borrowed Dress won the 2001 Felix Pollak Prize for Poetry and made The Los Angeles Times bestseller list. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, The Journal, Mudfish, Quarterly West, and elsewhere, and has been widely anthologized. Her newest collection is Tattoo.

mark doty's newest collection of poems, School of the Arts, was published by HarperCollins in the spring of 2005. He is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the University of Houston's creative writing program.

norman dubie's new collection of lyrics, Ordinary Mornings at a Coliseum, was published by Copper Canyon Press this year, along with the paperback of his collected poems, The Mercy Seat. His 400-page futurist poem, The Spirit Tablets at Goa Lake, may be found online at Blackbird ( The New Virginia Review).

lynn emanuel is the author of three books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, and Then, Suddenly—which was awarded the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. She was a judge for the 2004–2005 National Book Awards. Currently, she is a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. These poems are from a manuscript in progress entitled The War Years.

d. w. fenza is the author of The Interlude, a book-length poem.

cb follett is the author of four collections of poetry, The Latitudes of Their Going (1993) and Gathering the Mountains (1995) from Hot Pepper Press, Visible Bones (Plain View, 1998), and At the Turning of the Light (Salmon Run, 2001), winner of the National Poetry Book Award. She is publisher and, with Susan Terris, co-editor of Runes, A Review of Poetry.

chris forhan is the author of The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, which won the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award, and of Forgive Us Our Happiness, winner of the Bakeless Prize. He teaches at Auburn University and in Warren Wilson's M.F.A. Program for Writers.

doreen gildroy's first book, The Little Field of Self (Chicago, 2002), won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares. Her second book, Human Love, was published by the University of Chicago Press in October 2005.

kathleen halme iii lives in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Every Substance Clothed (Georgia) and Equipoise (Sarabande). Her work has appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, Anthropological Quarterly, Boston Review, and others.

judith harris is the author of Atonement: Poems (LSU, 2000) and a critical book, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing (SUNY, 2003). A new book of poems, The Bad Secret, is forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in spring 2006. She teaches at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

jeffrey harrison's fourth book of poems, Incomplete Knowledge, will be published by Four Way Books in fall 2006. Also in 2006, the Waywiser Press will bring out a volume of his selected poems in the U.K. His chapbook, An Undertaking (2005), is now available on Amazon.com.

edward hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published six books of poems, including Wild Gratitude (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Lay Back the Darkness (2003). He has also written three prose books, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999). He is president of the John Simon Memorial Foundation.

jane hirshfield's sixth poetry collection, After, will appear from HarperCollins in early 2006. She is the current holder of the Academy of American Poets seventieth annual Fellowship, as well as an NEA. Other new poems appear in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Best American Poetry 2005.

h. l. hix directs the creative writing M.F.A. program at the University of Wyoming. His latest poetry book, Shadows of Houses, was published in 2005 by Etruscan.

alice hoffman is the author of sixteen books of fiction and seven books for teens and children. Her most recent books are The Ice Queen, a novel, The Foretelling, a novel for teens, and Blackbird House, a book of stories shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor award.

jeff hoffman is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow in poetry at Stanford University. Previously he was a James A. Michener fellow at the University of Texas and a Chesterfield Screenwriting fellow with Paramount Pictures. His plays have been published by Samuel French and Vintage, and his poems have appeared in Field, New Orleans Review, and Spinning Jenny.

john hoppenthaler's poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney's, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Chautauqua Literary Journal, and the anthologies Wild, Sweet Notes II: More West Virginia Poetry and Chance of a Ghost. He is Poetry Editor of Kestrel, and his first collection of poetry is Lives of Water (Carnegie Mellon).

david kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University and the author of The Ha-Ha, selected by Dave Smith for the Southern Messenger Poets series published by Louisiana State University Press. See www.davidkirby.com for more information.

david lehman's most recent book of poems, his sixth, is When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005). In collaboration with James Cummins, he has also written a new book of sestinas, Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man (SoftSkull, 2005).

federico garcía lorca (1898–1936), the poet and dramatist, is recognized as one of the greatest artists of modern Spain. He composed Poem of the Deep Song, his first major collection, in 1921, at the age of twenty-three, but it was not published until 1931, five years before he was murdered by the fascists at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Other major works include Gypsy Ballads and Poet in New York.

gail mazur is the author of five books of poetry, including They Can't Take That Away from Me (Chicago), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. Zeppo's First Wife: New & Selected Poems was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2005. She is Writer in Residence at Emerson College and the 2005 recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation's Distinguished Artist Award.

jean mcgarry, author of six books of fiction, teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. A novella, A Bad and Stupid Girl, winner of the 2005 University of Michigan fiction award, will be published this year.

leslie adrienne miller is the author of Eat Quite Everything You See, Yesterday Had a Man in It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up for Love. Her new collection of poems, The Resurrection Trade, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2007.

carol muske-dukes is the author of seven books of poems. The most recent, Sparrow, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has also published two collections of essays, including Married to the Icepick Killer, as well as three novels. She is founding director of the Ph.D. program in Creative Writing and Literature at USC and monthly poetry columnist for The Los Angeles Times Book Review.

howard norman's latest book is the memoir In Fond Remembrance of Me. A new novel, Devotion, will come out in 2006. "Church Owl" is an excerpt from a longer novel.

judith pacht's poems appear in Runes (Arctos), Gastronomica (California), Los Angeles Review, and Solo 6. They were also featured in Site of the City, 2003 and 2005, a postcard competition, and in Tebot Bach's Anthology of California Poetry. Her chapbook, Falcon (Conflu:X), was published in 2004.

candace pearson's poems, which center on issues of memory, accountability, and the natural world, are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review and Anthology of California Poetry, among other publications. She lives in the Los Angeles hills.

alison pelegrin is the author of The Zydeco Tablets. Her most recent chapbook, Squeezers, was released in the fall, and her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. Currently a member of the English department at Southeastern Louisiana University, she is married and has two small children.

carl phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. His eighth book of poems, Riding Westward, will be published next spring by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

kevin prufer's newest book is Fallen from a Chariot (Carnegie Mellon, 2005). With Joy Katz, he recently edited Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems (Illinois, 2006). He is editor of Pleiades and lives in rural Missouri.

liam rector's new book of poems, The Executive Director of the Fallen World, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. He directs the graduate Writing Seminars at Bennington College and lives in New York City.

paisley rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee (Pantheon, 2000), and two books of poetry, A Crash of Rhinos (Georgia, 2000) and Six Girls Without Pants (Eastern Washington, 2002). Her work has received an NEA Fellowship, the University of Georgia Press's Contemporary Poetry Series Award, and the Laurence Goldstein Poetry Prize.

alberto ríos's poetry collections include The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body (Copper Canyon, 2002), a finalist for the National Book Award, Teodoro Luna's Two Kisses, The Lime Orchard Woman, The Warrington Poems, Five Indis