Volume 38, Issue 2

Contributors

Kim Bridgford directs the writing
program at Fairfield University; her
fiction and poetry have appeared in
Georgia Review, Carolina Quarterly,
Passages North, and other literary
magazines.

Stephen Dobyns has published
nine volumes of poetry–most
recently, Common Carnage–and
seventeen novels–most recently, The
Church of Dead Girls. He has also
published a collection of essays on
poetry, Best Words, Best Order.

Neal Durando is from Forth Worth, Texas.

Wendy M. Gavin, who received an MFA
from Purdue, teaches composition
in community-based creative writing
workshops.

Chris Haven has published in
Hawaii Review, and is at work on a
novel.

Gail R. Henningsen practices
law in Hopewell, NJ; this is her first
published story.

Joanna Herman has published
poetry and prose in a number of
magazines and journals including
Crescent Review, Antenna, Woman’s
Day and VIA.

Bill Knott teaches writing at Emerson
College.

Andy Mozina has published work in
Alaska Quarterly Review, Mississippi
Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, and
other magazines.

Anne Moore Odell co-edits Third
Coast Literary Magazine while she
finishes her MFA at Western Michigan
University.

Sue Owen, who teaches poetry
writing at Louisiana State University,
has published two books of poems;
a third, My Doomsday Sampler, is
forthcoming from Louisiana State
Univ. Press.

Marge Piercy has published thirteen
volumes of poetry, the most recent of which,
What Are Big Girls Made Of?, appeared this year;
and thirteen novels, the most recent of
which, City of Darkness, City of Light,
appeared in 1996.

Public high school teacher Linda
Roth has published in many journals
and has poems forthcoming in Southern
Review and Midwest Quarterly.

Robyn Sarah, who lives in Montreal,
has published a book of poems, The
Touchstone, and one of short stories,
A Nice Gazebo.

Currently poet-in-residence at Reed
College, Maxine Scates has published
a volume of poems, Toluca Street, as
well as essays anthologized in various
collections.

Maureen Seaton is the author of
three books, and has received many
awards and fellowships, most recently
the Iowa Prize for Poetry for her 1996
collection, Furious Cooking.

Margaret C. Szumowski, who teaches at
Springfield Technical, has published
poems in various journals including
Agni Review, Poetry East, APR, et.al.,
as well as a chapbook, Ruby’s Cafe.

An internist in Boston, Paula Tatarunis
has published poems in various reviews
including The Literary Review, The
Exquisite Corpse, and others.

Daniel Villasenor, who has an MFA
from the University of Arizona and
was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at
Stanford, makes his living as a black
smith and horseshoer in New Mexico.

Val Vinokurov was born in Moscow
and came to this country in 1979; he
is a Ph.D. student in Comparative
Literature at Princeton, where he also
teaches Russian novels; his translations
include Solibo Magnificent and
Texaco.

After leaving the legal field, Anne Reynolds
Voegtlen became a volunteer diver
for the Seattle Aquarium (“fish janitor,”
she calls it); her poetry has appeared in
such journals as Poetry, TriQuarterly, Antioch
Review and Poetry Northwest.

John Witte‘s poems have appeared in The
New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Paris Review,
et.al. His first book, published by
Wesleyan, was called Loving the Days.

Eve Wood, who has MFAs in both art
and English, has published in Poetry,
The New Republic, etc.

A writer for the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation in Princeton, James Wood
has work in Fireweed, Colorado Review,
Virginia Quarterly Review, and other
literary journals.

The stories of G. K. Wuori have appeared
in The Gettysburg Review, The Chicago
Review, and other magazines; his work
has received a Pushcart Prize.

Gerald Yelle, who earned an MFA from the
University of Massachusetts, grew up in
Holyoke and now lives in Amherst with his
wife and three children.