Contributors' Notes

MASTHEAD

Guest Editor
Gish Jen

Editor
Don Lee

Poetry Editor
David Daniel

Assistant Editor
Gregg Rosenblum

Assistant Fiction Editor
Maryanne O"Hara

Associate Poetry Editor
Susan Conley

Founding Editor
DeWitt Henry

Founding Publisher
Peter O"Malley

Assistant Fiction Editor: Nicole Hein Kelley. Editorial Assistants: Kelly Kervick and Stephanie Wilder. Fiction Readers: Darla Bruno, Laurel Santini, Elizabeth Pease, Kathleen Stolle, Wendy Wunder, Geraldine McGowan, Eson Kim, Hannah Bottomy, and Emily MacLellan. Poetry Readers: Sean Singer, Christopher Hennessy, Jill Owens, Tracy Gavel, Joanne Diaz, Kristoffer Haines, Aaron Smith, Michael Carter, Jennifer Thurber, and Scott Withiam.

CONTRIBUTORS

ann beattie"s new collection of short stories, Perfect Recall, will be published by Scribner in January. She is the author of six other story collections, including Park City, What Was Mine, and The Burning House, and of six novels, including My Life, Starring Dara Falcon, Another You, Picturing Will, and Chilly Scenes of Winter.

moira crone is the author of three volumes of fiction, the latest being Dream State. She lives in New Orleans and directs the M.F.A. program at LSU. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker and various periodicals and anthologies. "Where What Gets into People Comes From" is the title story of a cycle set in North Carolina"s tobacco country, where she grew up.

peter ho davies is the author of two short story collections, The Ugliest House in the World and Equal Love. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper"s, Granta, and The Paris Review, and has been selected for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Michigan.

tom drury, recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for 2000-2001, is the author of three novels, including Hunts in Dreams, which was published in May. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and The Mississippi Review.

carol fitzgerald lives in New York City, where she works for a magazine. She is currently writing a novel.

elizabeth graver is the author of two novels, The Honey Thief and Unravelling, and of a short story collection, Have You Seen Me? Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She teaches at Boston College.

jesse lee kercheval is the author of a memoir, Space, and a collection of poems, World as Dictionary. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin, where she is the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

bill marx reviews books for The Boston Globe and a variety of national newspapers and magazines. He also comments regularly on new fiction in translation for PRI"s nationally syndicated radio program "The World." This year he was named, for the third time, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Reviewer"s Citation.

garry mitchell has recently exhibited work in New York City at Art in General, Karen McCready Fine Art, and the Claudia Carr Gallery, as well as at Colby College Museum of Art, the Hyde Collection, and the Lake George Arts Project. He has a show forthcoming at ICON Contemporary Art in Brunswick, Maine. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo, among other places. He lives in North Yarmouth, Maine, with his wife and son.

sabina murray was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Australia and the Philippines. She is the author of the novel Slow Burn. "Intramuros" will be included in her short story collection The Caprices, which was inspired by the Pacific Campaign of the Second World War and will be published by Houghton Mifflin in the fall of 2001. A former Michener Fellow and Bunting Fellow, she is currently the Roger Murray Writer in Residence at Phillips Academy, Andover.

pamela painter is the author of the story collections Getting to Know the Weather and The Long and Short of It, which came out in the spring of 1999. She is also co-author, with Anne Bernays, of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper"s, The Kenyon Review, The North American Review, Ploughshares, and Story, among other magazines and anthologies. A founding editor of StoryQuarterly, she teaches in the M.F.A. program at Emerson College.

jess row is a student in the University of Michigan M.F.A. program. From 1997 to 1999 he was a Yale-China teaching fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and he is currently working on a collection of stories that take place there. His work has previously appeared in Green Mountains Review, and recently received a Hopwood Award.

esmeralda santiago is the author of the memoirs When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman, and of the novel América"s Dream. She is currently at work on the screen adaptation of Almost a Woman for PBS Masterpiece Theatre.

lysley a. tenorio earned his M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Formerly the George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy and the James McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin"s Institute for Creative Writing, he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Born in Olongapo City, Philippines, he grew up in San Diego and now lives in San Francisco. This is his first publication. His work is forthcoming in The Atlantic Monthly.

mark winegardner, a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Florida State University, is the author of several books, including, most recently, the novel The Veracruz Blues. His new novel, Crooked River Burning, will be published later this year by Harcourt.