Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editors

Russell Banks and Chase Twichell

Executive Director

DeWitt Henry

Managing Editor & Fiction Editor

Don Lee

Poetry Editor

David Daniel

Assistant Editor

Jessica Dineen

Founding Publisher

Peter O'Malley

Staff Assistants: Stephanie Booth and Jodee Stanley.
Fiction Readers: Karen Wise, Billie Lydia Porter, Holly LeCraw Howe, Barbara Lewis, Maryanne O'Hara, Sara Nielsen Gambrill, David Rowell, Stephanie Booth, Tanja Brull, Phillip Carson, Christine Flanagan, Erik Hansen, Michael Rainho, Kimberly Reynolds, Lee Harrington, and Jodee Stanley. 
Poetry Readers: Barbara Tran, Tanja Brull, Tom Laughlin, Jason Rogers, Linda Russo, Mary-Margaret Mulligan, and Karen Voelker. 
Phone-a-Poem Coordinator: Joyce Peseroff.

CONTRIBUTORS

margaret atwood is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Her most recent novel,
The Robber Bride, came out this fall from Doubleday.

madison smartt bell is the author of two collections of short stories-
Zero db and
Barking Man-and seven novels, including
Waiting for the End of the World, Soldier's Joy, and, most recently,
Save Me, Joe Louis. Since 1984, he has taught at Goucher College, where he is Writer-in-Residence.

james bland, a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, is currently completing his doctorate at Harvard. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Callaloo, Key West Review, The Kenyon Review, Columbia Magazine, Agni, and elsewhere
.

hayden carruth has published a total of twenty-eight books, chiefly of poetry, the latest of which are his
Collected Longer Poems and
Suicides and Jazzers. He has served as an editor at
Poetry, Harper's, and
The Hudson Review, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including special recognitions from the Whiting Foundation, the National Book Critics' Circle, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 1988 he was appointed Senior Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts.

robert creeley's edition of Charles Olson's
Selected Poems was published recently by the University of California Press. His
Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews and Tom Clark's
Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place (which includes Creeley's "Autobiography") have just been released by, respectively, the University of Michigan Press and New Directions.

fielding dawson is the author of nineteen books. An artist with the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York, as well as a critic, essayist, and lecturer, he is the chairman of the PEN Prison Writing Committee and periodically teaches at Attica, Sing Sing, and other prisons.

deborah digges's first book of poems,
Vesper Sparrows, won the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Prize in 1986. Her second collection,
Late in the Millennium, was published in 1989 by Alfred A. Knopf. Earlier this year, her book of nonfiction,
Fugitive Spring, was issued in paperback by Vintage. New poems which will be included in her third collection have recently appeared in
The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Antaeus, and other magazines. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University.

stephen dobyns's eighth book of poems,
Velocities: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1992, will be published by Viking Penguin in January 1994. His most recent novel,
The Wrestler's Cruel Study, was published by W.W. Norton in August 1993. This coming summer, Norton will also publish Dobyns's eighth Saratoga mystery:
Saratoga Backtalk. He directs the creative writing program at Syracuse University and teaches in the M.F.A. program at Warren Wilson College.

jessica hagedorn is the author of the novel
Dogeaters, which was nominated for a National Book Award, and of
Danger and Beauty, a collection of poetry and prose. She is the editor of
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction, which has just been published by Viking Penguin.

lola haskins's
Hunger (Univ. of Iowa, 1993) won the 1992 Edwin Ford Piper Award. She has published four other books of poetry, most recently
Forty-Four Ambitions for the Piano (Univ. of Florida, 1990). She lives on a farm outside Gainesville, Florida.

garrett hongo is the author of
Yellow Light (Wesleyan, 1982) and
The River of Heaven (Knopf, 1988), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets in 1987 and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1988. His poems and essays have appeared in
Antaeus, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Recently, he edited
The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America (Anchor, 1993) and
A New Perspective, a special issue of
New England Review. He is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon.

fanny howe's most recent books are
Saving History, a novel from Sun and Moon, and
The End, a book of poems from Littoral Books. She lives in London.

mark jarman's most recent book is
Iris (Story Line Press, 1992), a book-length narrative poem. His collection
The Black Riviera (Wesleyan, 1990) won the Poet's Prize for 1991. David R. Godine will publish his next collection,
Questions for Ecclesiastes. Jarman teaches at Vanderbilt University.

laura kasischke received the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers for her first collection of poems,
Wild Brides (New York University Press, 1992). She also received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay DiCastagnola Award for a work-in-progress this year for her new collection,
Housekeeping in a Dream.

martin lammon teaches writing and literature at Fairmont State College in West Virginia, where he also co-edits the new literary journal
Kestrel and directs the Kestrel Writers Conference. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in
The New Virginia Review, Mississippi Valley Review, Midwest Quarterly, West Branch, and
The Gettysburg Review.

dana levin currently lives in New York City, where she is at work on her first book of poems,
Castle Perilous. Her work appeared in the Spring 1992 issue of
Ploughshares.

adrian c. louis lives on the Great Plains of South Dakota. A new collection of his poems,
Blood Thirsty Savages (Time Being Books), will be available in the spring of 1994.

clarence major is the author of nine books of poetry and seven novels, most recently
Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar, which was cited as a
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year in 1988. He regularly reviews books for
The Washington Post Book World and has contributed to
The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Essence, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. He is currently directing the Creative Writing Program at the University of California, Davis.

cleopatra mathis has published three books of poems, the most recent of which is
The Center for Cold Weather. She teaches at Dartmouth College.

william matthews's most recent book is
Selected Poems & Translations 1969-1991 (Houghton Mifflin).

campbell mcgrath is the author of
Capitalism (Wesleyan) and the forthcoming
American Noise (Ecco Press). His work has appeared in
The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and
Antaeus. He teaches at Florida International University in Miami.

paul muldoon was born in 1951 in Northern Ireland. His most recent books are
Madoc: A Mystery (1991) and
Selected Poems 1968-1986(1993), both of which were published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and
Shining Brow (1993), his libretto for an opera about Frank Lloyd Wright, which was issued by Faber and Faber.

joyce carol oates's latest novel is
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang. She recently edited
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories.

ed ochester's most recent collection of poetry is
Changing the Name to Ochester (Carnegie Mellon). He is Director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, editor of the Pitt Poetry Series, and, with Peter Oresick, editor of
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry.

sharon olds teaches at New York University and at the university's writing workshop at Goldwater Hospital, which serves the severely disabled. The workshop, now in its seventh year, will be Olds's community project for her 1993-96 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Fellowship. Her most recent book is
The Father (Knopf, 1992).

stanley plumly's last book is
Boy on the Step (Ecco, 1989). He is a Professor of English at the University of Maryland.

thomas rabbitt lives and works on a farm in Elrod, Alabama. His fourth book of poems,
Enemies of the State, is due from David R. Godine, Publisher, in early 1994.

jan richman's poetry has appeared in
The Nation, Caliban, Grand Street, The Bloomsbury Review, and elsewhere.In 1993, she received a "Discovery"/
The Nation Award and the Celia B. Wagner Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is currently at work on a novel.

leon rooke has published thirteen short story collections. His novels include
A Good Baby (Knopf and Vintage) and
Shakespeare's Dog (Knopf and Ecco). Earlier this fall, he was Writer-in-Residence at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. He lives in Canada.

kenneth rosen lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches at the University of Southern Maine. Recent poems have appeared in
The Massachusetts Review and
The Paris Review. His collections of poems include
Whole Horse (Braziller), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and
The Hebrew Lion and
Longfellow Square, both from the Ascensius Press.

natasha saje's poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in
The Gettysburg Review, Poetry, Feminist Studies, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

reg saner's book of nonfiction,
The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene, appeared this spring from Johns Hopkins. He teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

tim seibles is the author of two books of poetry,
Body Moves (Corona Press, 1988) and
Hurdy-Gurdy (Cleveland State, 1992). An NEA Fellow in 1990, he recently received the Open Voice Award for poetry from the National Writers' Voice Project at New York's West Side YMCA. He is the Writing Coordinator at the Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

jan selving is an M.F.A. candidate at Arizona State University in Tempe. Her poems have been published or will appear in
Denver Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and
The Jazz Poetry Anthology.

laurie sheck is the author of
Io at Night (Knopf, 1990). She was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry in 1991, and has had recent work in
The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and
Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches as Rutgers University.

susan snively's books are
From This Distance (Alice James Books, 1981) and
Voices in the House (Univ. of Alabama, 1988). Her new manuscript is
The Speed of the Drift. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

dannyka taylor lives in the Pacific Northwest.

melanie rae thon is the author of two novels,
Iona Moon (Poseidon, 1993) and
Meteors in August (Random House, 1990), and a collection of stories,
Girls in the Grass (Random House, 1991). Originally from Montana, she currently teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Syracuse University.

bruce weigl is the author of six poetry collections, most recently
What Saves Us (TriQuarterly Books, 1992), and the editor of the forthcoming
The Phenomenology of Spirit and Self: On the Poetry of Charles Simic (Story Line Press). In 1994, the University of Massachusetts Press will publish
Poems from Captured Documents, which he translated from the Vietnamese with Nguyen Thanh. Weigl teaches in the writing program at Pennsylvania State University.

marianne wiggins's books include
John Dollar, Bet They'll Miss Us When We're Gone, and
Separate Checks. She lives and writes in New York City, where she rides the m5 bus.

dean young has published two books of poems,
Design with X (1988) and
Beloved Infidel (1992), both from Wesleyan. He teaches at Loyola University in Chicago.