Volume 45, Issue 2

Contributors

Hadara Bar-Nadav has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize in poetry and serves on the editorial staff of Prairie Schooner. Her work has been published recently in Laurel Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review and in other journals.

Catherine Barnett teaches at New York University. Her book, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the Beatrice Hawley Award and was published recently by Alice James Press.

Eula Biss is the author of The Balloonists (Hanging Loose Press, 2002), a narrative in prose poetry. She is a graduate of Hampshire College.

Kristin Bock‘s poems appear in FENCE, The Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Black Warrior Review. She is an instructor in the honors program at the University of Massachusetts. She lives in Amherst with her husband, where they refurbish religious iconography.

Annie Boutelle was born and raised in Scotland and is the author of Thistle and Rose: A Study of Hugh MacDiarmid’s Poetry. She teaches in the English Department at Smith College, where she founded the Poetry Center. Her sequence of poems based on the life of Celia Thaxter was a finalist for the 1999 Walt Whitman Award.

Laure Anne Bosselaar‘s first language is Flemish. She is the author of a book of poems in French, Artemis (1973), and two collections in English, The Hour Between Dog and Wolf (1997) and Small Gods of Grief (2001), which won the Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry. With her husband, Kurt Brown, she co-edited the anthology Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars (Milkweed, 1997).

Kurt Brown is the editor of Drive, They Said: Poems about Americans and Their Cars (1994) and Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics (1998), both from Milkweed Editions. His collection of essays, The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science, was published by the University of Georgia in 2001. His collections of poetry include More Things in Heaven and Earth (Four Way Books, 2002), and Fables from the Ark (Custom Words, 2004). Future Ship will be published by Story Line Press in 2005.

Shannon Cain lives in Tucson, Arizona. Her short fiction has appeared in Other Voices and Zoerope: All-Story Extra. She is in pursuit of an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Jan Conn‘s most recent book is Beauties on Mad River (Véhicule Press, 2000). Born in Asbestos, Quebec, she received her PhD in genetics from the University of Toronto. In 2003 Conn won second prize for poetry in the Canadian Broadcast Corporation literary awards. She lives in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

K.E. Duffin‘s book, King Vulture, will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2005. Her manuscript was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Walt Whitman Award, and the Colorado Prize. She lives at Inkspot, an artist cooperative in Somerville, Massachusetts. She is also a printmaker.

Robert Erwin‘s best essays on history and culture have been collected in The Great Language Panic (1990) and American Products (2002). He is a former director of the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lesley Lee Francis is the granddaughter of Robert Frost. She is currently Scholar-in- Residence and Adjunct Professor of Spanish at George Mason University. She has lectured and published extensively on her grandfather; her biographical study, The Frost Family’s Adventure in Poetry: Sheer Morning Gladness at the Brim was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1994. Anne Harris received an MFA from Yale in 1988. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim and an NEA fellow ship. Before moving to Chicago, she taught at Boston University and Bowdoin College.

Gerard Malanga‘s most recent book is No Respect: New & Selected Poems 1964-2000. The poem in this issue is part of a work-in progress entitled Who’s There? His Web site is gerardmalanga.com.

Paul Marion is the author of several collections of poetry and is editor of Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings by Jack Kerouac (Penguin). His work is included in the anthologies Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems and For a Living: The Poetry of Work. A bilingual volume, Rosemont Stars: Selected Poems is forthcoming from Le Temps Volé Editeur of Québec. He edits The Bridge Review: Merrimack Valley Culture (ecommunity.uml.edu), an online journal at UMass-Lowell.

Erika Mikkalo‘s writing has received the Tobias Wolff Award from The Bellingham Review, the Millenium Poetry Award from the Writers’ Publishing Cooperative and was recognized in the final round of the Chicago Poetry Center s 7th Annual Juried Reading. Other work appears in The Hawaii Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, and The 2nd Hand. She lives and works in Chicago, where she received an MFA from Columbia College.

Kerrie Mitchell lives in Brooklyn and is a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program in nonfiction creative writing.

Linda McCullough Moore is the author (writing as Eliza Osborne) of the novel Last Rites (Soho Press 2000) as well as more than 175 shorter published works appearing in The Sun, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Queen’s Quarterly, House Beautiful, Family Circle, The Boston Globe, and American and British periodicals and anthologies.

Stephen O’Connor received master’s degrees from UMass Boston and University College, Dublin. He lives with his wife and two children in Lowell, Massachusetts, and teaches at Greater Lowell Technical High School. Another Lowell story, “One Who Knows,” can be read online at The Bridge Review, #4.

Daryl Phelps is a graduate of Canisius College and Daeman College. His poems have appeared in Boston Review and Connecticut Poetry Review.

Jerome Richard has taught at the University of Montana, Goddard College, and Western Washington University. His novel, The Kiss of the Orison Dancer, was published recently by The Permanent Press. He lives in Seattle.

David Rutschman‘s work appears in Alaska Quarterly Review, Salt Hill, Seneca Review, and The Southeast Review, among other journals. He lives next to a chicken coop in San Antonio, Texas.

A. Sandosharaj was born in Washington, D.C, and grew up in Langley Park. He has recently completed his MFA at Ohio State University and plans to begin a fellowship at George Washington University to pursue a PhD in American Studies.

Gregory Blake Smith teaches at Carleton College. He is the author of two novels, The Devil in the Dooryard and The Divine Comedy of John Venner, which was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the Notable Books of the Year. A new novel, The Pope’s Daughter, will be published by Crown in 2005.

Diane Wald‘s book, The Yellow Hotel, was published in 2002 by Verse Press. She works for animal welfare at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Malena Watrous is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University. Her nonfiction and fiction have appeared in Glimmer Train, Alaska Quarterly Review, TriQuarterly, and Salon.com. She is working on a series of novellas set in Japan.

Erika Williams lives in Kansas City with her husband and two daughters. Her fiction has been previously published in Zoetrope All-Story Extra.

Fred Yannantuono was born in Yonkers, New York. He is a businessman, programmer, truck driver, landlord, tutor, dishwasher, and film festival director, and is married with two kids. He once ran twenty straight balls at pool and finished 183rd (out of about 10,000) at the 1985 U.S. Open Crossword Puzzle Tournament. He has won a yodeling contest in a German restaurant.