Volume 36, Issue 4

Contributors

Notes on Contributors:
Kevin Bowen is Director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston.

Robert Dow has published stories in Quarterly West and The Quarterly.

The first published poems of Robyn Heisey-Clark appear in this issue.

John Hodgen has published a collection of poems, In My Father’s House, which won two awards; his work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Lorraine Mortimer, who regularly publishes essays on film, teaches Cinema Studies at La Trobe Univ., Australia.

Carol Potter won the 1990 New Letters award for poetry; her work has appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

Henry H. Roth‘s fiction has appeared in many magazines; his novel, The Cruz Chronicle, was published by Rutgers Univ. Press.

Kevin Stein has won several awards for poetry and an NEA fellowship; he has published poetry, reviews, and criticism in a number of literary journals and a book on James Wright.

Lê Thi Diem Thúy, who was born in South Vietnam, has contributed to The Very Inside: An Anthology by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women.

Edwina Trentham is Assoc. Professor of English at Asnuntuck Community College; her work has appeared in various magazines, and she was a Fellow at Yaddo in 1989.

Latino/Latina Poetry Contributors:
Pedro López Adorno, from Puerto Rico, has published various collections of poetry, and edited the anthology Papiros de Babel. He is a professor of Black and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College.

Marjorie Agosín, from Chile, has published numerous books of poetry, short fiction, critical studies, and, most recently, a memoir entitled A Cross and a Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile. She is a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College

Jack Agüeros, from East Harlem, New York, is the author of a short story collection, Dominoes, and two poetry collections: Correspondence Between the Stonehaulers and the forthcoming Sonnets From the Puerto Rican. He is former Director of the Museo del Barrio in New York City.

Miguel Algarín‘s books of poetry include Time’s Now/Ya es Tiempo and On Call. He is the founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City, and is a professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Julia Alvarez, from the Dominican Republic, has published two poetry collections and two novels, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, which won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and In the Time of the Butterflies. She is a professor of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.

Naomi Ayala‘s first book of poems, If We Passed You, is forthcoming from Curbstone Press. She works with high school programs in New Haven, Connecticut.

Alicia Borinsky, from Argentina, has recently published a collection of poetry, La pareja desmontable/The Collapsible Couple, and a novel, Sueño del seductor abandonado/Dream of the Abandoned Seducer.

Camilo Pérez Bustillo is an attorney and translator living in Mexico City. The recipient of a Kellogg Fellowship, he is the co-translator of The Blood That Keeps Singing/La sangre que sigue cantando by Clemente Soto Vélez.

Ana Castillo is a poet, novelist and essayist. Her most recent book is Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma.

Sandra Cisneros is the author of several collections of poetry and short fiction, including The House on Mango Street and Woman Hollering Creek. She was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of six books, including The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry, for which she received the Annisfield Wolf Book Award. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.

Celeste Kostopulos Cooperman has published a critical study, The Lyrical Vision of María Luisa Bombal, and has translated three books from the Spanish, most recently A Cross and A Star: Memoirs of a Jewish Girl in Chile by Marjorie Agosín. She is a professor in the Humanities at Suffolk University.

Víctor Hernández Cruz is the author of many books of poetry and prose, including Mainland, Snaps and Red Beans. He lives in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, where he is currently finishing a novel.

Martín Espada, from Brooklyn, New York, has published five collections of poetry, including Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover’s Hands, for which he received the PEN/Revson Fellowship and the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the forthcoming Imagine the Angels of Bread. He is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Sandra María Esteves has published three volumes of poetry, most recently Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo. She teaches in the WriterCorps program through the Bronx Arts Council in New York City.

Rosario Ferré, from Puerto Rico, has published numerous works of fiction and poetry, including the novel Maldito amor and the poetry collection entitled Antología personal.

Cola Franzen has translated more than fifteen books from the Spanish, including works by Federico García Lorca and Jorge Güillen. Most recently, she has published a translation of Mina cruel/Mean Broad, a novel by Alicia Borinsky, as well as poems from Borinsky’s collection, La pareja desmontable/The Collapsible Couple.

Magdalena Gómez has been widely anthologized in such collections as Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets and Under the Pomegranate Tree: Latino Erotica. Two of her bilingual children’s plays will premiere with the Enchanted Circle Theater Company next year.

Ray González, author of four books of poetry and a book of essays, as well as editor of fourteen anthologies, has received the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for Excellence in Editing. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Juan Felipe Herrera‘s recent books of poetry include Night Train to Tuxtla and The Roots of a Thousand Embraces. Forthcoming work includes another poetry collection, Love After the Riots, Mayan Drifter: A Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America, and a bilingual children’s book, Calling the Doves.

James Hoggard is the author of nine books: four collections of poems, two novels, and three collections of translations. Among his translations is the work Chronicle of My Worst Years/Crónica de mis años peores by Tino Villanueva.

Rick Kearns is the author of one poetry collection, Street of Knives, and the editor of a literary magazine, Blue Guitar. He currently teaches a course on poetry of protest at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Demetria Martínez won the Western States Book Award for her novel Mother Tongue. She has also authored a collection of poetry, entitled Turning, and currently writes a column for the National Catholic Reporter.

Dionisio D. Martínez, from Cuba, is the author of two poetry collections: Bad Alchemy and History as a Second Language. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, and is currently an affiliate writer at the University of Tampa.

Julio Marzán is the author of Translations Without Originals, a collection of poetry, and the editor-translator of Inventing a Word: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Puerto Rican Poetry. He has also published a book of criticism, Foreign Heart: The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams.

Pat Mora, a native of El Paso, Texas, has published four books of poetry, most recently Agua Santa: Holy Water, and a collection of non-fiction, Nepantla: Essays From the Land in the Middle. She has also received a Kellogg Fellowship.

Leroy Quintana has published five poetry collections, including Sangre and The History of Home, each of which won an American Book Award. He is a professor of English at Mesa College in San Diego.

Gary Soto‘s most recent books are New and Selected Poems and Canto Familiar. His play “Novio Boy” has been mounted at numerous high schools in California.

Virgil Suárez, from Cuba, has published two novels, Latin Jazz and The Cutter, as well as a collection of stories entitled Welcome to the Oasis. He is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Florida State University.

Clemente Soto Vélez (1905-1993) was a major Puerto Rican poet, who published such works as Cahallo de palol/The Wooden Horse and La tierra prometidal/The Promised Land. He was imprisoned from 1936 to 1942 for his leadership role in the Puerto Rican independence movement.

Tino Villanueva, from San Marcos, Texas, has published four volumes of poetry, including Scene From the Movie Giant, which won the American Book Award. He teaches Spanish at Boston University.

Michael Veve won the Class of 1940 Poetry Award from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Enid Santiago Welch has published widely in literary journals, including the Bilingual Review, the Minnesota Review, and Peregrine. She is an AmeriCorps Volunteer with Amherst Artists and Writers Institute.