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Charles M. Anderson is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he teaches courses in nonfiction writing, editing, and rhetorical theory. He also teaches literature and medicine and medical ethics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He has published in a variety of anthologies and journals, presented at writing and medical humanities conferences, and co-edited with Marian MacCurdy a collection of essays entitled Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice (National Council of Teachers of English Press, 2000). He is currently working on a healing narrative of his own entitled Journey Time.

Staci Dumas, a recent graduate of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice. She will enter law school in the fall of 2000 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law and hopes to one day be a successful prosecuting attorney. She has been a writer for several years and recently served as a member of the editorial staff for Quills and Pixels, her university's annual nonfiction anthology. This is her first national publication.

Julia Ferganchick, Ph.D., has taught writing and rhetoric for seven years in Arizona, Kentucky, and currently at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her articles on composition pedagogy, rhetorical theory, and sexual harassment have appeared in Kairos, Composition Forum, and TETYC among others. In June of 1999, she survived the crash of American Airlines Flight 1420 at the Little Rock airport.

Darryl E. Haley is a native of central Arkansas who has worked as a journalist, editor, bartender, hotel clerk, high school substitute teacher, caterer, typesetter, freelance writer, and college instructor. He received his B.A. in English Literature and Writing (1992) and his M.A. in Technical and Expository Writing (1994) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. In 1999, he received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition and American Literature from the University of Alabama. His publications include a syndicated editorial column; poems; reviews of books about religion and rhetoric; and computer generated artwork. He is presently writing a textbook for graduate studies in the field of rhetoric and composition. Haley is an Assistant Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he serves as Director of Computer Assisted Writing.

Dorothea Heitsch is an Assistant Professor of French and German at Shippensburg University. Her doctorate in Comparative Literature is from the University of Washington. She has presented papers on Montaigne, Etienne de La Boétie, Nietzsche and others at conferences in the United States and abroad. Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais, her first book, was published this year by Brill. [End Page 133]

Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy, a writer, teacher, and singer, is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Writing Program at Ithaca College where she teaches both creative and expository writing. She has published scholarly articles as well as personal essays and poetry. An article, "The Four Women of the Apocalypse: Polarized Feminine Images in Magazine Advertisements," is included in Utopia and Gender in Advertising, A Critical Reader. Her essay, "From Image to Narrative: the Politics of the Personal," was published in the Journal of Teaching Writing, and she is the co-editor, with Charles Anderson, of the book Writing and Healing: Toward and Informed Practice (National Council of Teachers of English Press, 2000). She is a frequent speaker at national conferences including the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the National Association for Poetry Therapy, and the Associated Writing Programs. She holds a Ph.D. from Syracuse University.

Peggy Munson is the editor of the forthcoming book, Stricken: Voices from a Hidden Epidemic (The Haworth Press). She has published poetry, fiction, and essays in anthologies by Cleis Press, Faber & Faber, and Creative Arts Book Company, as well as in magazines and journals such as The Spoon River Poetry Review, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and 13th Moon. She has won grants, awards, and fellowships, including numerous residencies at the Ragdale Foundation and Cottages at Hedgebrook. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Oberlin College and has been on disability due to her illness for several years.

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