Contributors
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Edward Baugh, who has published extensively on Anglophone Caribbean literature, is author of Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision (1978), a study of Another Life, and coeditor (with Colbert Nepaul Singh) of an annotated edition of Walcott's Another Life. Edward Baugh's most recent collection of poems is It Was the Singing (2000). He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Robert Bensen is author of a number of books of poems, the most recent being Two Dancers (2004). He is Professor of English and Director of Writing at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY.
Laurence A. Breiner is Professor of English at Boston University, where he teaches Caribbean literature. He is author of An Introduction to West Indian Poetry (1998), Black Yeats: The Poetry of Eric Roach (forthcoming, 2005), and numerous articles and reviews of Caribbean poetry and drama.
Paul Breslin teaches modern and contemporary American poetry and West Indian literature at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is author of The Psycho-Political Muse: American Poetry since the Fifties (1987), You Are Here (poems, 2000), Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (2001). He is one of the coeditors of this issue of Callaloo.
Paula Burnett is author of Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics (2000) and editor of Penguin's Caribbean Verse in English (1986), an anthology. She is Senior Lecturer in the English Department at Brunel University (Uxbridge, Middlesex, England), where she teaches postcolonial literature and creative writing.
Fred D'Aguiar, a widely publish poet and fiction writer, co-directs the MFA Program in creative writing at Virginia Tech. His most recent publications include Bloodlines (2001), a verse novel about slavery, and Bethany, Bettany (2004), a novel set in his native Guyana.
Reed Way Dasenbrock is Professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Mexico. He is author and editor of a number of books, including Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics (2001) and Interviews with Writers of Post Colonial World (1992).
Mc. Donald Dixon is author of two novels, Misbegotten (forthcoming) and Season of Mist (2002). He lives in St. Lucia.
Rita Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and the current Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her numerous awards and honors include the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and the 1996 National Humanities Medal. Her most recent book of poems is American Smooth (2004).
Thomas Sayers Ellis, one of the founders of the Dark Room Collective, is an associate professor of English at Case Western University, where he teaches courses in creative writing and African-American literature. He is author of The Maverick [End Page 260] Room, his first volume, which is to be published by Greywolf Press in 2005. He is also author of the chapbook The Genuine Negro Hero, one of the three poets collected in Take Three (1996), and co-editor of On the Verge: Emerging Poets and Artists (1993).
Peter Erickson is author of Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare's Drama (1985) and Rewriting Shakespeare, Rewriting Ourselves (1991), and coeditor of Shakespeare's "Rough Magic" (1985) and Empire in Renaissance England. His new book, Citing Shakespeare: The Reinterpretation of Race in Contemporary Literature and Art, and Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's "Othello," a volume he is co-editing, are forthcoming.
Jeffrey Gray is author of Mastery's End: Traveland Postwar American Poetry (2005) and editor of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, a project-in-progress. His articles and poems have been published in a number of periodicals, including Contemporary Literature, Novel, American Poetry Review, Atlantic, and Callaloo. He is an associate professor of English at Seton Hall University.
Emily Greenwood is a lecturer in Greek literature and classics at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). She holds a Ph. D. degree in classics from Cambridge University.
Marilyn Hacker, an internationally known translator and a former editor of the Kenyon Review, is author of number of volumes of prize-winning poems, including Desesperanto: Poems 1999–2002 and First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960–1979. For Presentation Piece she won the National Book Award. She...
