Volume 47, Issue 4

Contributors

Samuel Amadon no longer lives in
Hartford. His poems have appeared or will
appear in American Poetry Review, Black
Warrior Review, The Canary, Denver Quarterly,
LIT, New England Review, and Verse. He is
the author of Advice for Young Couples from
h_ngm_nb_ks.

Normand Berlin is the author of five
books on drama, including Eugene O’Neill
(Macmillan, Grove) and O’Neill’s Shakespeare
(Michigan), a casebook on O’Neill (Mac
millan) and numerous essays ranging from
medieval poetry to modern film. He is
Theater Editor of MR.

Noah Blaustein‘s had poems in Barrow
St., Crazyhorse, Hunger Mountain, Mid
American Review, Lit, Open City, Orion,
Rivendell, The Snake Nation Review, and
Pleiades. His poetry manuscript, Cool School,
has twice been a finalist for the Agnes
Starrett Lynch Prize from the University of
Pittsburgh Press as well as for several other
contests.

Marianne Boruch‘s two most recent
books are Poems: New and Selected (Oberlin,
2004), and a collection of essays on poetry,
In the Blue Pharmacy (Trinity, 2005). A
Guggenheim fellow last year, she teaches in
the MFA program at Purdue University.

Rob Cook lives and works in New York
City, where he co-edits Skidrow Penthouse
with Stephanie Dickinson. His work has
appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Arson,
Harvard Review, Third Coast, Pleiades, Urvox,
LIT, Lungfull, The Canary, Mudfish, Asheville
Poetry Review, etc. He has also been nominated
for seven Pushcarts.

Sean Thomas Dougherty is the author
of seven books including the forthcoming
Broken Hallelujahs (BOA Editions, 2007).
He teaches in the BFA Program for
Creative Writing at Penn State Erie.

Paul Gibbons has had work appear in The
Indiana Review, Crazyhorse, and Field. He
lives in Los Ojos, New Mexico.

Kevin Goodan‘s first book, In the Ghost
House Acquainted, won the 2005 L. L.
Winship/PEN New England Award. He
currently teaches Creative Writing at the
University of Connecticut.

John Gray resides on the Northshore. He
has been photographing urban ruins and
other unusual locations for many years. His
work has been featured in numerous pub
lications and can also be seen at
www.grayphotography.net

Kurt Heinzelman is the Pforzheimer
Senior Fellow at the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center, as well as
Professor of English at the Univ. of Texas at
Austin and a Resident Faculty Member at
the James A. Michener Center for Writers.
He has been a Fulbright Fellow (United
Kingdom), a Charles A. Dana Fellow, a
Danforth Foundation Fellow, a Fellow of The
Society for the Humanities at Cornell
University, and he was recently elected to
the Texas Institute of Letters. He has published articles,
poems and translations in an array of journals
both here and abroad. His books of poetry are
The Halfway Tree and Black Butterflies. His other books
are The Economics of the Imagination, Make It New:
The Rise of Modernism, and The Covarrubias
Circle. He is also the founding coeditor of
the award-winning periodical The Poetry
Miscellany and is currently Advisory Editor
for the Bat City Review.

Stanley Koehler, professor emeritus of
English at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, has published several collections
of poetry, along with poems and critical
articles in a number of journals.

Rachel Marston is working towards an
MFA in fiction at the University of Utah.
She is currently the chair of the Writers at
Work Fellowship competition and co
director of the graduate student reading
series, The Working Dog. This is her first
print publication.

C. M. Mayo is currently at work on The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, a novel
inspired by an episode in Maximilian von
Habsburg s brief reign in Mexico. Mayo is
the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a
Thousand Miles through Baja California, the
Other Mexico (University of Utah Press,
2002), and Sky Over El Nido (University of
Georgia Press, 1995), which won the
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short
Fiction. Her essays and fiction have
appeared in Creative Nonfiction, The Kenyon
Review, The Massachusetts Review, North
American Review, Paris Review, Tin House,
and elsewhere. An avid translator of
Mexican fiction and poetry, Mayo is also
founding editor of Tameme, a bilingual
(Spanish/English) chapbook publisher, and
the editor of Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary
Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006). Her
website is www.cmmayo.com

Alix Ohlin is the author of The Missing
Person, a novel, and Babylon, a forthcoming
collection of stories. She teaches at Lafayette
College in Easton, PA.

Brad Richard has published one book,
Habitations (Portals Press: New Orleans, 200)
and one chapbook, The Men in the Dark
(Lowlands Press: Stuttgart, Germany, 2004).
His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in
many journals, including American
Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Black
Warrior Review, Iowa Review, Passages North,
and Western Humanities Review. He lives
and teaches in New Orleans.

Tomaz Salamun is widely recognized as
one of the leading central European poets
and has had books translated into most of the
European languages. He lives in Ljubljana
and occasionally teaches in the USA. His
recent books in English are Blackboards and
The Book for My Brother.

Ted Sanders lives in Urbana, Illinois, with
his wife and son. His stories have appeared
in journals such as The Georgia Review, Black
Warrior Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal.

Amy Scattergood is a graduate of the
Iowa Writers’Workshop and Yale Divinity
School. Her first book of poetry, The
Grammar of Nails, came out in 2001, and
individual poems have appeared in more
than thirty publications, including
Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, New
England Review, and Grand Street. She currently
teaches poetry at UCLA’s Extension
and is a full-time student at the Cordon
Bleu program of the California School of
Culinary Arts in Los Angeles.

Joshua Michael Stewart is the editor of
the online magazine Big Toe Review
(www.bigtoereview.com). His first chapbook, Ordinary
Mysteries, was published by
White Heron Press in 2004. His poems
have been published or are forthcoming in
Massachusetts Review, Rattle, Diner, Berkshire
Review, Heat City Review, and Worcester
Review. Joshua lives in Ware, Massachusetts.

Rawdon Tomlinson‘s recent books are
Deep Red, (University of Central Florida,
1995) and The Line, (Pudding House Press,
2004.) If you Could Lick My Heart: Geronimo
after Kas-Ki-Yeh is forthcoming from L.S.U
Press, 2007. He currently teaches writing at
the University of Colorado at Denver.

Lee Upton‘s fifth book of poetry, Undid
in the Land of Undone, is forthcoming in
2007 from New Issues Press. Her fourth
book of literary criticism, Defensive
Measures, appeared in 2005 from Bucknell
University Press.

Travis Venters has taught in Japan since
1971. He teaches Native American
Studies, Felen I Culture and Writing. He
was a member of Saramukan, a British
dance group, until it disbanded, and is also
working cultural exchanges between
University Obirin and University Osage
Nation of Oklahoma. While Travis tries to
remember each moment is what it is, he
is easily distracted.

Dan Ward likes to think of himself as a
fantasy writer, even though others seem not
to. His debut novel, Alexander, is available
through http://www.likeavagina.net. He
lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where
he is currently working on his next book.

Gerald Williams worked as editor and
translator for Maurice Girodias, publisher of
the Olympia Press, for more than twenty
years? first at the home office in Paris,
then later at the New York and Amsterdam
branches. He’s currently living in New York,
where he works as a French, English, Dutch
translator (check out www.PEN.org/trans
lators). His essays and stories have appeared
in Harvard Review, New Letters, New York
Stories, and in earlier issues of this magazine.
His book on ex-pat life in Paris in the ’60s
is nearing completion.

Faye Wolfe is a writer and editor living in
Northampton, Massachusetts. She is currently
working on a novel about a peony breeder.