Volume 41, Issue 2

Contributors

Bert Cardullo is a professor of drama at the University of Michigan, a film critic for the Hudson Review and editor of Playing to the Camera: Film Actors Discuss their Craft, and Bazin at Work: Major Essays and Reviews from the ’40s and ’50s. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Finland in 1996.

Robert Coles teaches African-American Literature at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA; his most recent work appeared in Hawaii Review.

A former poetry editor of the New Delta Review, Ethan Gilsdorf won the Hobblestock Peace Poetry Competition in 1999.

Eugene Gloria‘s Drivers at the Short Time Motel was selected for the National Poetry Series and has just been published by Penguin Books.

A teacher at Talladega College in Alabama, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers‘ fiction is forthcoming in Dark Matter: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction by Black Writers (Warner/Aspect, 2000), and her book of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue, is forthcoming from Kent Sate University Press.

Coppélia Kahn, a professor of English at Brown University, has written several books and numerous articles on feminist theory and criticism, Renaissance drama and Shakespeare.

A bilingual poet, writing in English and Russian, Katia Kapovich‘s Russian novel in verse, Suflior (the Prompter), has been nominated for the Booker Prize. She has both poetry and fiction forthcoming in the Longfellow Anthology of Russian American Literature (Johns Hopkins University Press).

Robin Coste Lewis, an assistant professor of creative writing at Hampshire College, has published fiction in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review and Gay Community News.

Matthew Miller is finishing his M.F.A. at the Iowa Writer’s Workshops. His most recent work can be found in The Sycamore Review and Prairie Schooner.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the 2000-01 Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She recently received an AWP Intro Award in creative non-fiction and The Atlantic Monthly Student Writer’s award in poetry.

A teacher in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama, Sharon O’Dair has published many essays on Shakespeare and literary theory. A book, entitled Bottom Lines: Class, Critics, Shakespeare, is forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.

Joyce E. Peseroff‘s A Dog in a Lifeboat and several other books of poems are available from Carnegie Mellon. She is currently a visiting professor and Poet-in-Residence at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

A painter, sculptor and writer for over twenty years, Rebecca Emlinger Roberts teaches Rhetoric at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She directed a collaborative stage production called Still Life with Conversation, and edited an anthology of the same name (Ridgeway Press).

W. D. Wetherell has published several books including The Man Who Loved Levittown. He is currently a holder of the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

J. P. White has published several books of poems and has new work forthcoming in The New Republic, The Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner and others.

Born and raised in Mexico, Maine, Monica Wood is the author of Secret Language (Faber and Faber), Description (Writer’s Digest Books), and My Only Story, forthcoming from Chronicle Books.