Volume 40, Issue 1

Contributors

Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama and numerous essays ranging from medieval poetry to modern drama and film. Lisa C. Beskin lives and teaches in Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, The Prose Poem, the New York Quarterly and other journals. Rafael Campo teaches and practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of The Other Man Was Me (Arte Público Press, 1994), which won the 1993 National Poetry Series award; and What the Body Told (Duke University Press, 1996), which won a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Sean Thomas Dougherty lives with his wife and son in Syracuse, New York, where he teaches at Syracuse University. His most recent book of poems is The Body’s Precarious Balance (Red Dancefloor, 1997). Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books and recipient of many awards and honors. Her most recent book, Squares and Courtyards, will be published by W. W. Norton in the fall of 1999. Joshua Harmon‘s fiction has appeared in Agni, Alaska Quarterly Review, Antioch Review, Chelsea, Fiction, Indiana Review, and Witness. He is at work on a story collection and a novel. Lola Haskins‘s most recent book is Extranjera (Story Line, 1998). She teaches Computer Science at the University of Florida and lives on a farm outside Gainesville. Jamey Hecht is a painter and rock ‘n roll lead singer and lyricist for “The Dogs,” as well as Assistant Professor of World Literature at Castleton State College in Vermont. His Plato’s Symposium: Eros and the Human Predicament will be published next year. Karla F.C. Holloway is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Duke University. Her most recent book is Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character. She is currently completing Passed On: African American Mourning Stories. Mark Irwin is the author of The Halo of Desire, Against the Meanwhile, and Quick, Now, Always. He has also published two volumes of translations; White City, a new collection of his own poems, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in Nov. 1999. Lawrence P. Jackson is an assistant professor of English at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in African-American Literature and Culture. A Spring ’99 fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University, he is completing a biography of Ralph Ellison. Vincent B. Leitch is Sutton Chair of English at the University of Oklahoma. His most recent book is Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (1992); he is also serving as General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Claire Malroux is the author of six books of poems, the most recent of which is Soleil de jadis, a poem-narrative of her childhood in Southwestern pre-World War II France. She is also an award winning translator of poetry from the English, most notably of Emily Dickinson. Edge, a bilingual collection of her poems, translated by Marilyn Hacker, was published by Wake Forest Press in 1996. Molly McQuade received a 1997 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry. Stealing Glimpses, her collection of essays about poetry, has just been published by Sarabande Books. Winston Napier is a Professor in the Department of English at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He lives in Astoria, New York. Ann Pancake teaches at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. A free-lance journalist in San Jose, California, Claire Tristram‘s work has appeared in Fiction International and Chiron Review. She has traveled to over thirty countries and all fifty states in search of the perfect motor cycle ride. Nance Van Winckel is the author of two collections of short stories and three volumes of poetry, most recently After a Spell (Miami University Press, 1998). She is a professor in the graduate creative writing program at Eastern Washington University. Naomi Wallace was born in Kentucky. Her drama has been produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Public Theatre. A first book of poems, To Dance a Stony Field, was published in the U.K.