Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors
DeWitt Henry
Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue
Rosellen Brown

Associate Fiction Editors
Andre Dubus
DeWitt Henry

CONTRIBUTORS

MICHAEL BENEDIKT currently teaches at Boston University. His latest book is Night Cries (Wesleyan, 1976), and the poem here is from a ms. in progress entitled, "The Badminton at Great Barrington; or, Gustave Mahler and The Chattanooga Choo-Choo."

JOHN BOVEY is a former American Foreign Service Officer, who has served in Rotterdam, Casablanca, Paris, Oslo, Washington and The Hague. He and his wife now live in Paris and in a small village in the Cevennes. He has published articles and a dozen stories in Great Britain, France and the United States.

T. ALAN BROUGHTON, who teaches at the Univ. of Vermont, has published prose and poetry in a great many magazines. His novel, A Family Gathering, has had the kind of fate one wishes for more good writers: a serious book, it was well and widely reviewed, and was a Book of the Month Club selection last year. He is working on another novel.

ROSELLEN BROWN'S latest book is Cora Fry (Norton). Her new novel, Bone Voyage, will be published by Knopf this fall.

SHARON BRYAN lives in New York City.

FREDERICK BUSCH'S newest novel is called The Mutual Friend (Harper and Row): it is a view of Dickens's later years through the eyes of his tour-manager and companion, Dolby, the man who called him "Chief." Busch teaches at Colgate but will be at Iowa next fall.

ELAINE EPSTEIN, who lives in New York City, has had poems in Rapport and Open Places.

RICHARD HARTEIS is studying medicine in New York City. His book, Twenty Five Women, will be available soon from Three Rivers Press.

LEW MCCREARY is a "discovery" for this issue. This is his first publication, though he is at work on a novel "about Edison, electricity and elephants." He pays for his writing time steam-cleaning the shag carpet at New England's largest disco.

ASKOLD MELNYCZUK edits Agni Review and has published in New York Arts Quarterly.

DEBORAH PEASE is a poet and fiction writer whose publications range from novel ( Real Life, Norton) to story ("Doubt," New Yorker) to poems in recent issues of Paris Review and South Dakota Review.

MARY PETERSON lives in Maine, and has published fiction in North American Review, South Dakota Review, Fiction International and elsewhere.

JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS is a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa, and was a recipient of an NEA grant in fiction last year.

PAMELA RICHARDS is taking her doctorate in English at Boston University. She teaches creative writing at the Cambridge Adult Education Center, "lives in a museum and gives tours," and has published fiction in Aspect, Sidelines, and Dark Horse.

IRA SADOFF writes that he's been "trying to deal with male/female arche-types for a while," and, in that vein, has written a long story, "The Retreat," which can be found in a recent Ohio Review. His new collection of poems, Palm Reading in Winter (Houghton Mifflin), contains part of the Romance sequence, of which ours is also an excerpt. Others have appeared in TriQuarterly and Story Quarterly. Ira is teaching at Colby College in Maine.

LLOYD SCHWARTZ, who teaches creative writing at Boston State College, is the classical music critic for The Boston Phoenix. Appropriately, his poem, "Hannah," has been set to music (by composer Jeanne Singer). He has published his poetry in the final issue of American Review, Seneca Review, and Shenandoah.

RUTH WHITMAN'S most recent book is Tamsen Donner: A Woman's Journey, from Alicejames Press. She spent the spring of 1977 at Mishkenot Sha'ananim, the center for artists and scholars in Jerusalem, where she began research for a biography of Hannah Senesh.

ELLEN WILBUR lives and writes in Cambridge.