CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 02, FALL 1999)

Priscilla Atkin’s work has appeared in Poetry, The Carolina Quarterly, Blue Mesa Review, and other journals. She currently lives in Holland, Mich.

John Bargowski is a recipient of a 1999 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship. His poems have appeared in Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, and other journals.

Pam Bernard, who makes her home in Boston, is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Writing and a MacDowell Fellowship. Her collection of poems, My Own Hundred Doors, was published by Bright Hill Press.

Fiama Hasse Pais Brandao has published 14 volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, Epistles and Memoranda, won prestigious literary awards in Portugal. Her first novel is a finalist in the European Prize for Literature. She has translated Updike, Novalis, and Chekhov into Portuguese.

Rita Ciresi is the author of the novels Blue Italian and Pink Slip, and the short story collection, Mother Rocket, which recently received the Flannery O’Conner Award. Her next book, Sometimes I dream in Italian, will be published in 2001.

Wendy E. Coulter is currently working on her M.F.A. at the University of Arizona. She will serve as the poet in residence at Tuscon High Magnet School next year.

Anthony Edkin’s translations from Spanish have appeared in Adam, Modern Poetry in Translation, and other journals. His version of Coplas Por la Muerte de su Padre will soon be published by King’s College London Medieval Studies. Edkin’s book of poems, Rock Pool, was published by Hearing Eye in 1995.

Ann Fisher-Wirth’s poems have appeared in Feminist Studies, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and other journals. A recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Council, she currently teaches at the University of Mississippi.

Charles Fishman’s books include Mortal Companions, The Firewalkers, Blood to Remember: American Poets of the Holocaust, and the Death Mazurka. He is poetry editor for both Gaia and Cistercian Studies Quarterly. He won the 1999 Eve St. Agnes Award from Negative Capability.

Jeff Friedman is the author of two collections of poetry, Scattering the Ashes and The Record Breaking Heat Wave. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Antioch Review, The Missouri Review, and other journals.

Do Gentry’s poems have appeared in Confluence, Fourteen Hills, Sulphur Literary Review, Talking River Review, and elsewhere.

Taylor Graham has had poems published in America, New York Quarterly, Poetry International, and other journals. Her collection, Casualties: Search and Rescue Poems, is profiled in the 1998 Poet’s Market.

Christine Hale is a 1999 MacDowell Fellow. Her creative non-fiction is included in the anthology Reaching Inward, Traveling Out, which is forthcoming from Beacon Press.

Jeff Hamilton’s work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Pleiades, and River Styx. He is co-founder and editor of the magazine, Delmar.

Archibald Henderson has published three collections of poetry, of which the most recent is Where You Are Now (Latitudes, 1984). His poems have recently appeared in Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Poetry Conspiracy, and Transcendent Visions.

Elizabeth Kerlikoske has twice won the Detroit Auto Dealer’s Short Story Contest. She teaches on interactive TV at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek Mich.

Will Killhour’s poems have appeared in The Montpelier Bridge, Poetry Motel, and other journals. A retired master merchant mariner, he is the managing editor of The Onion River Reader.

Rustin Larson’s poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Midwest Quarterly, and The New Yorker. His current collection is Land of the Apes (Conestoga Zen Press, 1999).

Alexis Levitin’s translations have appeared in more than 200 magazines, including American Poetry Review, New Letters, Partisan Review, and Prairie Schooner. His Selected Poems of Fiama Hasse Pais Brandao will be published by Green Integer Press this year.

C.M. Mayo’s short stories and poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Quarterly, Southeast Review, and other journals, Her collection Sky Over El Nido won the Flannery O'Conner Award for Short Fiction.

Casualene Meyer earned a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she studied creative writing. She lives on a farm in Purvis, Miss.

Richard E. Mezo teaches at both the University of Guam and the University of Maryland. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota and has published poetry, short stories, essays, and articles.

Ann E. Michael was the recipient of a 1998 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in poetry. She writes essays, librettos, and stories for her two children.

Errol Miller has had work appear in American Poetry Review, Arkansas Review, Atlanta Review, Fence, and other journals. She will be a featured artist in the 2000 Poet's Market and the featured writer in American Jones.

Jo Nelson has published work in Chachaluca, Chariton Review, Frontiers, Harrisburg Review, and other journals. She currently teaches creative writing at Tacoma Community College.

Katherine Novak has published poetry in Habersham Review and Spoon River Poetry Review. She teaches high school English.

Theodore Obourn earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and spent years as a public relations writer. He lives in Farmington, N.Y., where he is working on his first novel. This is his first published story.

Tracy Philpot lives in a small cabin in a bush community in Alaska. She flies to native Alaskan villages where she works as an advocate for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Her first book, Incorrect Distances, was published by University of Georgia in 1997.

Catherine Rankovic has published essays in Delmar, The Iowa Review, and The Progressive. She is a columnist for St. Louis Magazine.

Timothy Schaffert’s short stories have appeared in Eratica, Prairie Schooner, and Press. He is the recipient of a Nebraska Arts Council Fellowship and the Henfeld/Transatlantic Review Award.

Margaret Shipley has published two collections of poems, Burning the Trees and The Light of Angels. Her recent work has appeared in Field and Columbia: Reinventions.

Stuart Silverman is a retired college English professor whose poems and translations have appeared in more than 100 periodicals and anthologies. He spends his time traveling and collecting art and antiques.

Askold Skalsky’s poems have appeared in Antietam Review, Apalachee Quarterly, International Poetry Review, Mangrove, and other journals. He has completed his first collection of poems, The Ponies of Chuang Tzu.

Sally Jo Sorensen teaches English at St. Cloud State University. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Zone 3, and other journals.

Virgil Suarez, who was born in Havana, Cuba, is the author of four novels, a collection of short stories, and a collection of poetry and memoir. He has two books of poetry scheduled to be published. His work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Ohio Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner.

Paul Thiel was a featured poet in the Hunter College's "Decadent Poets of NYC" reading series and was the finalist in the Frank O'Hara Contest. He sells real estate in St. Louis, MO.

Lee Upton’s fourth book of poems, Civilian Histories, is due to be released by the University of Georgia Press. Her third book of criticism, The Muse of Abandonment, was recently published by Bucknell University Press.

Nancy Zafris has published stories in the Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Witness, and other journals. Her collection of short stories, The People I Know, won the Flannery O'Conner Award for Short Fiction. She will spend next year in the Czech Republic as a Fulbright Scholar.