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CONTRIBUTORS (ISSUE NO. 07, SPRING 2002) Henning Ahrens, born 1964, is a literary
translator, lyric poet, and journalist in Kiel, Germany. His first novel
will be published in spring 2002.
Jody Aliesan’s most recent of ten books, Loving in Time of War, was published in 1999 by Blue Begonia Press. She directs a Seattle nonprofit devoted to saving farmland from development and serves as poetry editor for The Raven Chronicles. Nathalie F. Anderson teaches in the Department of English Literature at Swarthmore College. Her first book, Following Fred Astaire, won the Washington Prize for 1998 from The Word Works; a second volume, Crawlers, is currently under consideration. In 1993, Nathalie Anderson was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Ronnie Apter is Professor of English at Central Michigan University. Mark Herman and Apter have co-authored eighteen opera translations performed throughout the United States, Canada, and England. Grace Bauer’s books include The Women At The Well, Field Guide To The Ineffable, Where You’ve Seen Her, and The House Where I’ve Never Lived. Her work has appeared in Poetry, DoubleTake, The Georgia Review, and other journals. She teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she coordinates Creative Writing. Kevin Boyle grew up in Philadelphia, studied at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Boston, and Iowa, and now teaches at Elon University in North Carolina. His poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Greensboro Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His chapbook, The Lullaby of History, will appear this summer. Gaylord Brewer is an associate professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits Poems & Plays. His two latest collections of poetry are Four Nails (Snail’s Pace Press, 2001) and Barbaric Mercies (forthcoming 2002). Edward Byrne’s poetry has appeared in journals such as American Literary Review, The American Scholar, The Black Warrior Review, Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, The Missouri Review, and numerous others. He is the author of four collections of poetry, and a fifth, Tidal Air, is now available from Pecan Grove Press. Mairéad Byrne immigrated from Ireland in 1994. Her poetry has most recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Poetry Ireland, readme, and A Fine Excess: 50 Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. She is an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Mississippi. Kathleen Cain’s poems have recently appeared in Knowing Stones: Poems of Exotic Places (2000). She is a contributing editor for The Bloomsbury Review and the author of Luna: Myth and Mystery (1991), a nonfiction book about the folklore of the moon. Scott Cairns’ new book, Philokalia: New & Selected Poems, will appear this spring from Zoo Press. He serves as series editor for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry and is Professor of English at the University of Missouri. Elizabeth Church lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received Literal Latte's 2001 first-place prize for one of her stories. She dedicates this story to Joey, Fritz, Samson, Enu, Riley, Divot, and Zola. Only one of them ever turned on her, and that dog taught her the most. Michael Coady lives in Tipperary and is an elected member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of artists. Winner of a number of awards, he is also known as a broadcaster. His book of poetry and prose, All Souls (Gallery Press), is a family memoir of the Irish-American diaspora. Elizabeth Collins was the winner of Columbia’s 2001 Nonfiction Contest and the Barbara H. Lounsberry Award for Best Essay of Literary Nonfiction at the 2001 Celebrating Critical Writing Conference held by the University of Northern Iowa. She is about to complete her MFA degree at the University of Iowa. Rita D. Costello is finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Louisiana, where she also teaches in the English Department. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train, ACM, Illuminations, The Baltimore Review, Shades of December, Fireweed, and many other journals. Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland, and now teaches at St. Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont. His next poetry collection is The Blind Stitch. He has also published The Hellbox, American Wake, Southward, and Cast in the Fire. James Doyle’s latest book, The Silk At Her Throat, is available from Cedar Hill Publications (1999). His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Laurel Review, The Ohio Review, and Willow Springs. Eibhlín Evans is an Irish writer living in England who is about to relocate to Ireland. She has published academic articles, and her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies. Tyler Farrell is a dissertating Ph.D. candidate in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His poetry has appeared in The Nebraska English Journal, Salt Fork Review, The Jabberwock Review, Front Range Review, and Yemassee. Susan Firer’s The Lives of the Saints and Everything won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry 1992. Her most recent manuscript, The Laugh We Make When We Fall, won the 2001 Backwaters Prize and will be published in spring 2002. David Gardiner is an assistant professor of English and director of Irish Studies at Creighton University. He has published numerous articles and a book on Irish poetry and criticism. He has two books forthcoming--an anthology of Irish poetry from the turn of the twentieth century and an edited collection of critical essays. He lives in Omaha with his wife and two daughters. Sherine Gilmour has just completed making thirty-two jars of jam, sewing living room curtains, and replacing the springs and webbing of an old chair in her Brooklyn apartment. All of which was to the great amusement of her cat, Aesop. To whom she dedicates everything she has, has ever done, or will do, including her MFA degree from NYU and any poetry she may write. Georges Godeau was born in 1921 in Villiers-en-Plaine, France, and published sixteen books before his death in 1999. His work won the Prix du Livre in Poitou-Charentes. Though widely translated in Japanese and Russian, his poems have rarely appeared in English. Áine Greaney’s fiction and essays have appeared in Creative Non-Fiction, The Literary Review, The Larcom Review, Books Ireland, Cyphers, and other journals. She was the winner of the 1999-2000 Frank O’Connor Short Story Award. Her first novel is forthcoming from TownHouse/Simon & Schuster. Twyla Hansen was employed for twenty-five years as a horticulturist. She has two books of poetry and a new chapbook, Sanctuary Near Salt Creek, from Lone Willow Press. Publications include Crab Orchard Review, Midwest Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, and several anthologies, including Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001). Douglas Haynes is currently teaching writing at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. His poems have recently appeared in River City and Poetry Ireland Review. Brian Henry’s first book of poetry, Astronaut, appeared in England, in Slovenia in translation, and in the United States. His poems are in recent issues of The Paris Review, TriQuarterly, Notre Dame Review, and Boston Review. He teaches at the University of Georgia. Mark Herman is a literary translator, technical translator, chemical engineer, playwright, lyricist, musician, and actor. X. J. Kennedy has current children’s books from Simon & Schuster, Penguin Putnam, and Little, Brown; poetry from Johns Hopkins University Press; and college textbooks from Longman and Bedford St. Martin’s. His version of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata was recently staged in Iowa City. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. A. S. King, an American-born poet and novelist living in rural Tipperary, Ireland, has had work appear in several journals in Ireland and the United States. She writes during the day and divides the rest of her time between work on the farm, visual art, and a part-time position teaching literacy to adults. Karen Koegler won the inaugural Gabehart Prize in poetry at the annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in several journals. She lives and writes in Lexington, Kentucky. Sandra Kohler’s poems have appeared in The New Republic, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, The Black Warrior Review, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Her book, The Country of Women, was published by Calyx in 1995. She lives and writes in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Michael Larkin’s short stories have appeared recently in Other Voices and The Baltimore Review. He has an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and currently teaches writing at the University of San Francisco. James Liddy was born in Dublin and has lived in Counties Wexford and Clare. He teaches Irish Literature and poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. James Liddy: A Critical Study, by Brian Arkins, was published in 2001. Rebekah Lindberg is a graduate of the University of Utah’s MFA program. Her writing has appeared in several journals, including The South Dakota Review, The Santa Monica Review, and The Santa Clara Review. David Lloyd’s poems and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, including Del Sol Review, Denver Quarterly, and DoubleTake. He is the editor of The Urgency of Identity: Contemporary English-Language Poetry from Wales and the author of Writing on the Edge: Interviews with Writers and Editors of Wales. In 2000, he received the Poetry Society of America’s Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. Ed Madden’s poetry has appeared in College English, River City, The James White Review, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, and other journals. He is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina. Bea Mahood was born and educated in Northern Ireland. Since leaving there in her early twenties for Canada, she lived, worked, and studied in places as diverse as Puerto Rico and Tennessee, Paris and Chicago, Brussels and Connecticut, before retiring to North Carolina. C. M. Mayo is the author of Sky Over El Nido, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles Through Baja California, The Other Mexico, which is forthcoming in the fall of 2002. Mayo’s short stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals including Chelsea, Fourth Genre, The Paris Review, The Quarterly, Southwest Review, Tin House, and Witness. A long-time resident of Mexico City, Mayo is also founding editor of Tameme, the annual bilingual journal of new writing from Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Kathleen McGookey’s first book of poetry is forthcoming from White Pine Press. Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Epoch, Field, The Journal, The Missouri Review, The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Quarterly West, and Seneca Review. John McGrail is Professor Emeritus of English at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. His poems have appeared in Hellas, Blue Unicorn, The Irish Review, The Shop, and other journals. Sheila Sinead McGuinness completed her MFA in 2001 at the University of Montana, where she won an Academy of American Poets prize. Her work appears in Iowa Woman, Common Lives, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Art New England, and the anthologies Women and Death and We Are All Friends Here. Ray McManus received his MFA from the University of South Carolina, where he teaches creative writing, composition, and Irish literature. His poetry has appeared in Yemassee, The Oakland Review, and Cold Mountain Review. “Shores” is from his upcoming book, Driving through the country before you are born. Pauline Mounsey is the founding editor of The Lucid Stone poetry quarterly. Her poems have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Convolvulus, and Chiron Review. Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches at The Northwest Writing Institute of Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island; her essays have appeared in various journals and anthologies, including The Stories that Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write about the West and Resurrecting Grace: Remembering Catholic Childhoods. Julie Mullany, an MFA student at Emerson College in Boston, has won two first-place prizes and one second-place prize in competitions sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. She has been published in Brevity—an online publication—and written reviews for both Nebraska Life and Opera News. Peter E. Murphy’s poems are in recent or forthcoming issues of Commonwealth, English Journal, The Laurel Review, Many Mountains Moving, Mudlark, Pif Magazine, and World Order. The New Jersey State Council on the Arts awarded him a poetry writing fellowship for the year 2001. Timothy Nolan is a lawyer in Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and three children. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Ploughshares, and Poetry East. Deirdre O’Connor’s book, Before the Blue Hour, won the 2001 Cleveland State Poetry Prize and will be published by Cleveland State University Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Painted Bride Quarterly, River City, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other magazines. She teaches in the Writing Program at Bucknell University. Mary O’Donoghue is from County Clare, Ireland. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches at Babson College. She received the Sean Dunne Young Writer Award, the Salmon Poetry Prize, and the 2001 Hennessy New Writer of the Year Award. Her first collection, Tulle, was published by Salmon Press. Thomas O’Malley was raised in Ireland and England. His work has appeared in Ploughshares and is forthcoming in Glimmer Train and Gulf Stream. A graduate of UMass Boston and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Kathleen O’Toole is a community organizer, teacher, and poet. She is currently coordinating National Church Outreach at Bread for the World. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins University and has taught writing at Hopkins and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Simon Perchik is an attorney. His poems have appeared in several journals, including Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and Natural Bridge (“D141,” in issue no. 1). Hands Collected, a complete reprinting of all of his sixteen out-of-print books, was recently published by Pavement Saw Press. Linda Goodman Robiner’s chapbook, Reverse Fairy Tale, was published by Pudding House Publications (1997). Her poems have appeared in such journals as The William and Mary Review, North Atlantic Review, and Chiron Review. James Silas Rogers is a lifelong resident of Minnesota, where he is managing editor of New Hibernia Review, a quarterly Irish Studies journal published by the University of St. Thomas. His creative writing has appeared in such publications as New Letters, Café Solo, and Briar Cliff Review. Geri Rosenzweig was born and raised in Ireland. She has had work appear in Verse, Nimrod, and Poet Lore. She won the BBC’s Poet of the Year Award in 2000 and is the author of two books of poetry—Under the Jasmine Moon and Half the Story. Jon Scieszka taught elementary school for ten years and has been writing for kids and discriminating adults for the last twelve years. He is the author of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, The Stinky Cheese Man, Math Curse, the Time Warp Trio series, and a bunch of other books you can look up if you are really that interested. Tom Sexton was appointed Alaska’s Poet Laureate in 1995. His latest book is Autumn in the Alaska Range (2000). Sarah Jane Shute received her MFA from Brooklyn College. She is a filmmaker and fiction writer living in Santa Monica. Her fiction has recently appeared in Red Cedar Review, and her films have screened in dozens of festivals worldwide. Amy Sickels received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University. Her awards include the Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Writing Grant and the Greensboro Review Literary Award. She also received a writing grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1999). Her work has appeared in The Greensboro Review and Fourth Genre. J. R. Solonche’s work has appeared in The New Criterion, The American Scholar, Poetry Northwest, Salmagundi, and other journals. He teaches at SUNY Orange in Middletown, New York. Eileen Sullivan is Associate Editor of South Dakota Review and Assistant Professor of Contemporary Media and Journalism at the University of South Dakota. She is currently working on a collection of short fiction, Living on Locust and Other Stories. Mark Taksa’s poems appear in Slant, Nebraska Review, Wind, River Styx, and California Quarterly. His chapbooks are Choice At The Blossom Café, Cradlesong, The End of Soup Kitchens, and Truant Bather. Pavement Saw will soon publish The Root. Matthew Thorburn won the 2000 Mississippi Review Prize for poetry. His poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Indiana Review. He lives in New York City. Daniel Tobin is the author of Where
the World is Made, winner of the Katherine Nason Bakeless Poetry Prize,
and the forthcoming Double Life. He teaches at Carthage College
and at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
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