Volume 48, Issue 4

Contributors

Normand Berlin is the author of five books on drama, including The Secret Cause: A Discussion of Tragedy (UMass Press), Eugene O’Neill (Macmillan, Grove, St. Martins), and O’Neill’s Shakespeare (Michigan). He is the Theater Editor of the Massachusetts Review.

Amy Bordiuk is the managing editor of a medical journal outside Boston. Her short stories have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Florida Review, Other Voices, and two previous issues of the Massachusetts Review.

Brian Hayter has a poem forthcoming in Paper Street. He has published previously in Seattle Review, Madison Review, and Hayden’s Ferry. He is assistant editor of Spillway Poetry Journal.

Bob Hicok‘s most recent book is This Clumsy Living (Pitt, 2007).

The work of Welsh artist Bethan Huws was featured at the 2003 Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of the 2006 B.A.C.A. Europe Laureate prize, which recognizes outstanding European artists in midcareer. She has had solo exhibitions in Europe at the Kunsthalle Bern and Tate Modern.

Fady Joudah is a Palestinian American physician, member of Doctors Without Borders, and translator of Mahmoud Darwish’s recent poetry, collected in The Butterfly’s Burden from Copper Canyon Press. His first book of poetry is the winner of the Yale Series for Younger Poets (2007): The Earth in the Attic.

maya may‘s poetry has appeared or is forth coming in Quercus Review, Roanoke Review, The Pinch, Pearl, Skidrow Penthouse, and Hanging Loose. She recently finished the MFA program at the University of Miami and now lives in Buenos Aires.

Cassandra McGovern lives in Tucson and the Chicago area. She earned an MA and a PhD in counseling from Northwestern University, with a dissertation on assertiveness training. A former reference librarian, she has been awarded grants to study illuminated manuscripts in five European countries, and a Fulbright to contrast illuminations with scrolls in the People’s Republic of China. Her work has appeared in Prairie Voices and Westview.

Donald Morrill is the author of two books of poetry, With Your Back to Half the Day and At the Bottom of the Sky, as well as three volumes of nonfiction: The Untouched Minutes, Sounding for Cool, and A Stranger’s Neighborhood. He is Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa.

Lenore Myka‘s work is forthcoming in Talking River Review and the fiction anthology Fenway Fiction: Volume II. She is currently enrolled in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Somerville, MA.

Muriel Nelson has two collections of poems, Part Snag (Bear Star Press, 1999) and Most Wanted (Byline Press, 2003). Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and has appeared in the New Republic, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Seneca Review, Northwest Review, and others. She teaches at Pierce College in Washington State.

Nina Payne (1932-2006) was a poet, an author of children’s books, a creator of fiber art and sculpture, and a professor of creative writing at Hampshire College, where she taught from 1977 to 1997. Her poems first appeared in these pages in 1980. Photographs of her fiber art with accompanying essay were featured in a special section in 1996.

Wendy Rawlings is the author of Come Back Irish (Ohio State University Press, 2001) and The Agnotistics, forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press. Her stories have appeared in Tin House, the Atlantic Monthly, and other magazines.

Ramsey Scott is a student at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and a resident of Berkeley, CA. He likes writing prose.

Nancy Sherman is a writer and editor living in Whately, Massachusetts.

Kathleen Spivack is the author of The Break Up Variations and The Beds We Lie In (both from Scarecrow, 1986). She teaches at Santa Fe, Aspen, Skidmore, and other programs throughout the United States and abroad.

T. L. Toma‘s stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Fiction International, and The Quarterly. His novel Border Drive was published by Southern Methodist University Press. He lives in St. Louis.

John Emil Vincent is a poet and critic. He has published poetry in Beloit Poetry Journal, American Literary Review, Spork, and elsewhere. His most recent critical book is John Ashbery and You: His Later Books (University of Georgia Press).

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published essays, stories, and poems in a wide variety of journals as well as three books: Life in the Temperate Zone, Professors at Play: Essays, and The Decline of Our Neighborhood.

Janet Yoder lives in Lushootseed Territory with her husband on a floating home in Seattle. She is currently at work on a book of personal essays about Upper Skagit elder Vi Hilbert. She hopes that “Burning at Nooksak” will invite readers into the rich world of this remarkable woman.

Katherine E. Young‘s poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, and others. For the last twenty-five years, Young has lived on and off in Russia and the former Soviet Union as a journalist, diplomat, business owner, and student of Russian poetry. A chapbook, Gentling the Bones, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.