Volume 45 Issue 1

Contributors

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

Kevin Bowen is director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His latest collection, Eight True Maps of the West, is from Dedalus Press, Dublin.

Sean Cotter, the translator of Liliana Ursu, is currently finishing his doctorate in twentieth-century American and Romanian translation. His work has appeared in Xavier Review, Translation Review, Kenning, and Romania literara. He is a member of the American Literary Translators Association.

David Crouse lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He teaches fiction writing and chairs the Writing Program at White Pines College. Some of his recent publications include work in Chelsea, Northwest Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, and Greensboro Review. He is a recent winner of a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Patrick Donnelly‘s collection of poems, The Charge, is from Ausable Press. He is an associate editor at Four Way Books. His writing appears in Ploughshares, Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Marlboro Review, and Barrow Street. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Webb Harris, Jr., lives near Orlando, Florida, and teaches writing at Seminole Community College. His work has appeared in an assortment of publications, from science fiction quarterlies such as Talebones to literary journals such as The Southern Review.

Leonard Kress has published three collections of poetry, The Centralia Mine Fire, Sappho’s Apples, and most recently, Orphies, at Kent State University Press. He has had poetry, fiction, and translations in American Poetry Review, Missouri Review, Iowa Review, and online journals. He teaches art history and religion at Owens College in Ohio.

Peter LaSalle‘s books include a novel, Strange Sunlight, and two story collections, Hockey Sur Glace and The Graves of Famous Writers. He has taught at universities in this country and in France, and is currently the Susan Taylor McDaniel Regents Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.

Richard H. Minear was born in 1938 and has been a professor of history at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1971, specializing in Japanese history. His publications include Dr. Seuss Goes to War and translations from the Japanese, such as Requium for Battleship Yamato.

Mark Jay Mirsky is editor of Fiction, which he founded in 1972 with Donald Barthelme and others. He has published several novels and works of nonfiction, including The Absent Shakespeare, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest book is Dante, Eros and Kabbalah (Syracuse University Press). Mr. Mirsky is Professor of English at the City College of New York and has been director of its M.A. Program in Creative Writing as well as director of Jewish Studies. His fiction and articles have been published widely in literary journals.

Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi is an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a medical informatics researcher at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. Her poetry has appeared in the South Boston Literary Gazette and on the Africa Resource Center’s poetry Web site.

Larry Owens teaches the history of science and technology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work focuses on the practice of science and Cold War culture.

Graydon Parrish was born in 1970 in Phoenix, Arizona, raised in Tyler, Texas, and presently resides in Amherst, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the New York Academy of Art. Paying homage to both Old Masters and French Academics, Parrish contemporizes the classical male and female nude by recontextualizing iithin topics of current importance. For example, his undergraduate thesis for Amherst College was an allegory of the AIDS crisis, entitled Remorse, Despondence and the Acceptance of an Early Death, 1997-99. Currently, Parrish is working on a monumental painting to commemorate the tragedy that struck on September 11, 2001, which is a commission for the New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut. This multi-figure work will be over 8 feet high and 20 feet long.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include Art and Anger (1996), The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language (2001), and The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003). In 2000 Routledge published The Essential Ilan Stavans. His work has been translated into half a dozen languages.

Liliana Ursu has published nine books of poetry and prose in Romanian, and she has been translated twice into English: The Sky behind the Forest and Angel Riding a Beast. She has translated five books of poetry from English and Dutch into Romanian, and two books from Romanian into English: 15 Young Romanian Poets and Fires on Water: 7 Poets of Sibiu. “Tableaux in Motion” comes from the book Goldsmith Market (2003, Zephyr Press).

Tino Villanueva is author of Scene from the Movie GIANT, winner of a 1994 American Book Award. His chapbook on memory and writing is titled Primera causa/First Cause (1999).

Thomas Washington is a graduate student in the University of Illinois Library and Information Science Program. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, most recently in The North Dakota Quarterly and Notre Dame Magazine.

Obeying a mysterious urge to spend his time in scribbling, despite the lack of writing education or experience, Irving Werner abandoned a career in corporate finance and hospital administration. His stories have appeared in several publications, in an anthology, and in a one-act adaptation with two separate runs off-Broadway; a collection, An Imposter of Eden, was published in 2000.