Volume 44, Issue 3

Contributors

Robert H. Abel is the author of three collections of stories and three novels. He won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction in 1989 for Ghost Traps (University of Georgia Press, 1991). His most recent novel is Riding a Tiger (Asia 2000,1998). He lives, fishes and agitates against the Bush regime in Hadley, Mass. His Web site is www.roberthabel.com.

Victoria Barrett received her MFA in Fiction Writing from New Mexico State University. Other work by her is forthcoming in Colorado Review.

Enis Batur, a Turkish author, has published over 20 volumes of poems, essays, and criticism. He has received Italy’s Sibilla Aleramo Prize and was featured at the Rotterdam International Poetry Festival of 1998. This poem comes from his collection Gri Divan (The Grey Divan).

Marvin Bell‘s most recent book is Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 (Copper Canyon). A new book, Rampant, will appear in 2004. He teaches for the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and in 2000 he was named Iowa’s Poet Laureate.

Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama and numerous essays ranging from Medieval poetry to modern drama and film.

Clifford Endres and Selhan Savcigil, Enis Batur’s translators, live in Istanbul and teach at Kadir Has University. Their translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Quarterly West, Seneca Review, Near East Review, The Turkish PEN, and other journals.

Selena Flowers was born in 1970 and lives in Colorado.

Melissa Fraterrigo‘s work has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Arts and Letters, So to Speak, and elsewhere. She teaches English at Penn State, Erie.

Federico García Lorca, a 20th-century Spanish poet and dramatist, was assassinated at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Tony Gloeggler is a native of New York City, where he manages a group home for developmentally disabled men. His work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. One Wish Left (Pavement Saw Press, 2002) is his first poetry collection.

Kate Greenstreet is a painter and graphic designer who lives in New Jersey. This is her first published poem.

Miguel Hernández was imprisoned for writing poems against Franco’s regime. While there, he wrote his final book of poetry, Cancionero y romancero de ausencias, from which this poem is taken. He died in prison in 1942 at age 31.

Patricia Hill is a writer/editor in Western Mass. She holds an MA in Literature. Her work appears in Southern Poetry Review, Kalliope, Crossing Paths: An Anthology of Poems by Women, and Onthebus.

Ravi Howard received the Hurston/Wright Foundation Award in 2001. His essays appear in Callaloo and Meridian and his short fiction is included in Gumbo: Stories by Black Writers (Harlem Moon/Doubleday, 2002). His first novel, Like Trees, Walking is forthcoming from William Morrow.

A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University, Amanda Brauman King lives and writes in Swampscott, Massachusetts. She is working on a series of stories that take place on the island of Patmos.

Michael Lenson (1903-1971) was Director of the Easel and Murals Division of the New Jersey WPA. Later he was director of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, and art critic for the Newark News. His work is represented in the collections of the Newark Museum, the Montclair Museum, Princeton University, Cornell University, Randolph-Macon University, among many others.

Daniel Mahoney, the translator for Miguel Hernández, lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Lynn Margulis and Ricardo Guerrero are Federico García Lorca’s translators. Lynn Margulis is a Distinguished University Professor of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In 1983, she was elected a member of the US. National Academy of Sciences, and President Clinton awarded her a National Medal of Science in March 2000 at the White House. Her publications, spanning a wide range of scientific topics, include original contributions to cell biology and evolution. Acquiring Genomes: A Theory to the Origin of Species, her new book co-authored by Dorion Sagan with a foreword by Ernst Mayr, was published by Basic Books, New York in 2002. She is dedicated to laboratory, scholarly and field studies. Ricardo Guerrero teaches Microbiology at the University of Barcelona. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of International Microbiology, a professional scientific journal, and is past president of the Catalan Society for Biology. He has a profound and enduring interest in literature.

Jay Nebel lives in Portland, Oregon.

Adnan Adam Onart is a Crimean Tatar poet raised in Istanbul now living in Boston, Mass. He has taught at several universities in Ankara, Turkey. His Turkish poems are published in Soyut, Yordam, Kirim, Dergah, and others. His work in English appears in the Boston Poet, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Harlan Phillips, Michael Lenson’s interviewer, conducted dozens of interviews for the Oral History Project of the Archives of American Art.

Evelyn Shakir is the author of Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States (Praeger, 1997) and many articles on Arab American literature. Her stories have appeared in Post-Gibran: New Arab American Writers, Red Cedar Review, and Flyway. In 1999, she became the first American Fulbright to Lebanon in fifteen years.

Evan Shopper teaches fiction writing at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. He has work in Colorado Review, Hawai’i Review, and Sonora Review.

Born in Moscow in 1967, Maxim D. Shrayer is a Professor of Russian and English at Boston College. His books include The World of Nabokov’s Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew and others. His fiction appears in AGNI, Sí Señor and Southwest Review. Shrayer recently edited and co-translated Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America (Syracuse University Press), by David Shrayer-Petrov.

Anne Silver‘s current book, Bare Root: A Poet’s Journey through Breast Cancer, is available at www.annesilver.com. Anne is winner of the Chester A. Jones contest and the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Contest; her book Sense of Sight is published by University of Miami Press. Her poems appear in Nimrod, Southern Humanities Review, California Quarterly, and elsewhere.

Lisa M. Steinman teaches at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her books include Lost Poems (Ithaca House), All That Comes To Light (Arrowood Books), A Book Of Other Days (Arrowood), and the forthcoming Carslaw’s Sequences (University of Tampa Press). She edits the poetry magazine Hubbub.

Christy Stillwell holds a Master’s degree in English from the University of Wyoming. In 1998, she was awarded a Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowship. She has worked as a rangeland technician, a dude ranch hand, a bookseller, a newspaper reporter, and an English teacher. Her work appears in Fourth Genre, River City, Sonora Review, and Sou ‘wester. “Telly’s Body Shop” is an excerpt from her unpublished novel, The Original Blue. She lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Robert Vivian is Assistant Professor of English at Alma College in Alma, Michigan. His collection of creative non-fiction, Cold Snap As Yearning (Nebraska Press), was winner of the 2001 Midland Author’s Award in adult non-fiction. He has had over twenty plays produced in New York City.