Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Directors

DeWitt Henry

Peter O'Malley

Coordinating Editor for This Issue

Philip Levine

Assistant Director / Managing Editor

Jennifer Rose

Associate Fiction Editor / Office Manager

Don Lee

Thanks this issue to:

Mary Karr, Michael Milburn, Mariette Lippo, Deborah Lotterman; our interns Elizabeth Detwiler and Shannon Henry; and our readers Rafael Campo, Anne Friedman, Doina Iliescu, Bill Keeney, and Tom Laughlin.

CONTRIBUTORS

David Barber is an editor in Boston, as well as a part-time teacher at Emerson College. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in the
Antioch Review, Ironwood, Missouri Review, North American Review, Quarry West, and the
Sonora Review.

B. H. Boston lives in San Diego, California, where he teaches high school English. His work has appeared in various magazines over the years, and
Only the Living, a chapbook of his poems, was published by Helix Press in 1979.

Gloria Kurian Broder, born and raised in Detroit, has published stories in
Harper's, Carleton Miscellany, Kingfisher, and
Great American Love Stories(Little, Brown). With her husband Bill Broder, she wrote the novel
Remember This Time (Newmarket Press, 1983).

Christopher Buckley teaches at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. His third book is
Dust Light, Leaves from Vanderbilt University Press. His recent work appears in
Poetry, The Nation, and
The Missouri Review.

Michael Collier's second book of poems,
The Folded Heart, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press, fall 1989.

Thomas Emery teaches at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He has had poems published in many small magazines and in the anthology
Light Year'86. His limited-edition chapbook,
Baker's Dozen, came out in 1987, the same year his story, "Presence of Lies," won first in the
Indiannual 3 anthology of Indiana writers.

James Finnegan lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he runs the Northampton Reading Series. He works as a marketing manager for the Foremost Corporation, covering the New York and New England territories.
Yarrow and
Missouri Review have carried his poems in recent issues.

James Haug's collection of poems.
The Stolen Car, will be published in 1989 by the University of Massachusetts Press. His recent journal publications include
Poetry East, Ironwood, and the
Massachusetts Review.

Fanny Howe's recent publications include a novel,
The Deep North, and poems,
The Vineyard. The editor of
Ploughshares Vol. 2/1, she teaches at the University of California, San Diego.

Colette Inez is the author of
Family Life(1988).
Eight Minutes From the Sun(1983),
Alive and Taking Names(1978), and
The Woman Who Loved Worms(1972). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Rockfeller Foundation, she is currently a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Columbia University's Writers Program.

Mark Jarman's latest book of poetry is
Far and Away. He is co-editor of
The Reaper, a literary journal. He teaches at Vanderbilt University.

Mary Karr's first book of poetry,
Abacus, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1987.

Yusef Komunyakaa teaches in the M.F.A. creative writing program at Indiana University. His new book of Vietnam-related poems,
Dien Cai Dau, is out from Wesleyan.

Steve Kronen's poems have appeared in
APR, The American Scholar, and
The Threepenny Review. He received his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College in July of 1988 and has completed a manuscript of poems,
Empirical Evidence.

Dixie Lane is a visual artist and poet, currently working as an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital near Fresno, California. She completed an M.F.A. in creative writing at Columbia University in 1986.

Mark Levine is a sculptor living in New York City with his wife Susan and his son Aaron. Having recently bought an old dairy farm upstate, he intends to begin a series of large-scale works there, but will maintain his Manhattan studio for drawings and small works.

Philip Levine returned to Fresno State in the fall of 1988 after eight years of teaching in the East, mainly at Tufts. He is glad once again to be among his equals, public school students. His greatest hope at State is to assist, before he retires or croaks, another generation of poets as good as those he's known in the past. His most recent book of poems is
A Walk with Tom Jefferson(Knopf, 1988). He is presently completing a new book of poems, the working title of which is
The Right Cross, as well as a second collection of interviews and essays to be published by the University of Michigan.

Larry Levis's most recent book is
Winter Stars(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983 and a Fulbright Lecturer in Yugloslavia in 1988. He is presently teaching in the writing program at the University of Utah.

Robert McDowell's
Quiet Moneyis available from Henry Holt. He is the editor of Story Line Press and co-editor of
The Reaper.

Gail Mazur directs The Blacksmith House Poetry Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and this year is a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Houston. Her second book.
The Pose of Happiness, was published by David R. Godine in 1986. She edited
Ploughshares Vol. 6/2 and Vol. 9/1.

Roger Mitchell's most recent book is
Adirondack. His
A Clear Space on a Cold Day appeared in 1986. He received an NEA Fellowship in 1986.

Joyce Carol Oates's next collection of poetry,
Young Love, America, including the poems in this issue, will be published in the fall of 1989.

Alicia Ostriker's most recent book of poems is
The Imaginary Lover. She is also the author of
Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America.

Linda Pastan's seventh book.
The Imperfect Paradise, was published by Norton in April.

Bin Ramke's book,
The Erotic Light of Gardens, will be published by Wesleyan University Press in the fall of 1989. He directs the writing program at the University of Denver, edits the Contemporary Poetry Series for the University of Georgia Press, and has published three books, the first of which was a Yale Younger Poets Award winner in 1977.

David Ray's most recent book is
Sam's Book from Wesleyan University Press, which will also soon publish his poems about India,
The Maharani's New Wall. He also has a book of poems about New Zealand forthcoming from the University of Otago Press, Dunedin, New Zealand. He recently won the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America and the
Forum Magazine Art Criticism Award.

Dennis Sampson is the project coordinator of a federally-funded program and a part-time literature instructor at Shelton State Community College. His recent poems have appeared in
The Hudson Review and
Crazyhorse, and the title poem of his second manuscript,
Forgiveness, will be out in the spring issue of
The Ohio Review. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Nancy Schoenberger is the author of two collections of poetry:
Girl on a White Porch (University of Missouri Press) and
The Taxidermist's Daughter(Graywolf Press). She received the 1987 Devins Award and has been the recipient of grants from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Jane Shore, co-editor of
Ploughshares Vol. 10/4, taught poetry writing as the Distinguished Writer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu this past spring. Princeton University's Council of the Humanities awarded her this year's Hodder Fellowship.

Michael Sofranko holds an M.F.A. degree in English from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. He was recently named First Runner-Up in the PEN Southwest Discovery Prize competition in poetry. He teaches Creative Writing, World Literature, and English for Houston Community and Alvin Community Colleges.

Roberta Spear is the author of two poetry collections,
Silks and
Taking to Water (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). She recently received an Ingram Merrill Fellowship, and is currently completing a third book of poems. She has work forthcoming in
Poetry and
The Missouri Review.

S. A. Stirnemann is an adjunct instructor in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University and is the Editor of
The South Florida Poetry Review.

Thomas Swick lived in Warsaw from 1980 to 1982, teaching at a private English school run by Poles. His writing has appeared in
The American Scholar, Commonweal, and
The North American Review. He has recently completed a book on Poland.

Zona Teti lives in Torrinton, Connecticut, and is married to artist David Teti.

Robert Vasquez is completing an M.F.A. at the University of California, Irvine, where he teaches creative writing. He has won an Academy of American Poets prize, and he will be a Stegner Fellow during the 1988-89 academic year at Stanford.

Liza Wieland has had poems published in
Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, and
The Worcester Review, among others. She teaches at Dickinson College.

Dean Young's first book,
Design with X, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press.