Volume 36, Issue 2

Contributors

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS:
Beverly Ball is studying creative writing at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Linda Bamber, who teaches at Tufts University, has published a book on Shakespeare as well as stories, poems and essays in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and other journals.

Marianne Boruch‘s third poetry collection, Mass Burning, was published by Field Editions; a collection of her essays will be published by University of Michigan Press next year.

Castle Freeman, Jr.‘s Spring Snow, a collection of essays, will be published by Houghton Mifflin.

Christopher Gilbert‘s first book of poems was a Walt Whitman Award Winner; he has completed a second collection and received an NEA grant for poetry in 1994.

Peter Gordon‘s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Yale Review and other literary magazines.

William Herman has been writing and teaching in New York City for a number of years.

Colette Inez, who teaches in the writing program at Columbia University, has published five books of poems, the latest called Getting Under Way.

Alice Jones is a psychoanalyst in Oakland; her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review and New England Review, and she is the author of a book, The Knot.

Leslie Kimel is a graduate student in the Florida State University Creative Writing Program; her work has appeared in several other magazines.

E.J. Miller Laino‘s work has appeared in various journals including Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, et al.

Novelist and teacher, Jay Neugeboren was for many years a colleague of Tamas Aczel in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts.

While working part-time in a psychiatric shelter for the homeless, Ann Nietzke published a novel, Windowlight, which won the Los Angeles P.E.N. Award, and has had short fiction and essays printed in various magazines and journals.

Marge Piercy is the author of twelve novels, eleven poetry collections, a play and a book of essays on crafts. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages.

Peter Richards‘ work has appeared in various journals and in 1994 his poems placed first for both the John Logan and The Academy of American Poets Awards.

Kenneth Rosen has had work appear in the Paris Review, Ploughshares, and other quarterlies; his most recent collection, Reptile Mind, was published by Ascension Press, South Portland, Me.

Beth Simon teaches linguistics and fiction writing at Indiana/Purdue University; she has just finished a fiction/memoir collection set in India and her first poetry collection, Ground Level, appeared last year.

Ilan Stavans, a novelist and critic, teaches at Amherst College. His books include The Hispanic Condition and Bandido, both published by Harper Collins, and he is editing The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays.

Lee Upton‘s second book of poetry, No Mercy (Atlantic Monthly Press), was a winner in the National Poetry Series; she has published extensively in literary journals and magazines.

Donald J. Waldie is a city official in the Los Angeles suburb about which he writes; he received an NEA fellowship in non-fiction in 1994 for earlier essays in MR.

Melvin Mordecai Wilk teaches literature and writing at Simpson College in Iowa; his poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, and other journals and magazines, and a study of the Jewish presence in Eliot and Kafka appeared in 1986.

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTORS
Susan Sanborn Barker has a degree in Plant & Soil Science and is writing a wildflower companion; she works in human services and has had poems in Dark Horse and several other magazines.

Primarily a visual artist, Harriet Brickman has a parallel career as a dance and theater critic.

Elizabeth Brown teaches pre-school and kindergarten children and has published in The Allegheny Review.

A boy soprano who took up the French horn in his teens, Earl W. Chapin went on to play in chamber and symphony orchestras, Broadway shows, and recording sessions; he turned to writing in his 50’s when a series of health problems made it impossible to continue his career as a musician, and has published work in Peregrine and Popular Science.

Writing poems provides visual artist Roz Driscoll with a counterpoint to her other work; she has published in Contact Quarterly and Dance Quarterly, and other places.

Deborah Golub is an art therapist and cross-cultural traumatologist who works with survivors of war, torture, and refugee flight; her poetry has appeared in Salmagundi.

An avid hiker and climber, Jack Haley served as a marine and currently lives with his golden retriever named Gold.

With a degree in international relations, Patricia Hill is advertising print production manager for a publishing company; she has had poetry in Peregrine.

Rachel Ferris Jenkins, mother of two daughters, is a psychologist in private practice.

Formerly a Director of Religious Education and the manager of a small bookshop, Betty Lockwood recently retired to western Massachusetts.

A newspaper correspondent, photographer and volunteer firefighter, Andrea Lynes has also been a lobsterer, waiter, secretary, and electric technician; her poetry has appeared in Sanctuary.

Author of a monthly newspaper column and a practicing lawyer, Bill Newman is director of the ACLU’s western Massachusetts office.

Kerry O’Keefe has had poems and prose in Paragraph, The Wisconsin Review, and elsewhere; she is moving to Sante Fe before summer’s end.

A dean at Deerfield Academy, Ann Quinn has poems in Peregrine, Sanctuary, and an upcoming issue of The New Yorker.

A home health aide and substitute teacher, Laura Rodley is enrolled in an adult degree program; her work has been published in Peregrine and Connecticut River Review, among others.

Janet Longe Sadler is a publications specialist and arts consultant; a chapbook, A Case Against Old Habits, came out from Amherst Writers & Artists Press, and poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, Midwest Quarterly, and others.

A visual artist whose media include oil painting, wood, and stained glass, Janice Sorensen has had three shows in the past year; the letter with her submission was written as she was beginning labor for her second child.

Poet and translator Ellen Watson leads two local writing workshops; she is translation editor and business manager of MR.

Storyteller, mother, and shepherdess Rochelle Wildfong has had work in Peregrine; she has also been a puppeteer, factory worker, and a professional Standardbred groom.

Anne Woodhull, “somewhere between a teacher and a therapist,” uses paints and clay, found objects and sandboxes in her work with children and teenagers.

Workshop leaders whose participants submitted work: Doug Anderson, Carlen Arnett, Rebekah Boyd, Barbara Cramer, Kathryn Dunn, Carol Edelstein, Dina Friedman, Peggy Gillespie, Bella Halstead, Leslea Newman, Kate Nugent, Dori Ostermiller, Pat Schneider, Linda Moore Spencer, John Stifler, Ani Tuzman, Anna Kirwan-Vogel, Ellen Watson, and Gene Zeiger.

Pat Schneider’s latest book is The Writer as an Artist: A New Approach to Writing Alone and with Others; in addition to leading her own workshops and training leaders locally, she has begun holding training sessions for people from all over the country.