About the Contributors
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John Luther Adams is a composer who has created a unique musical world grounded in wilderness landscapes and natural phenomena; he draws inspiration from a range of elements: birdsongs to earthquakes to geomagnetism. Among his ten cds are In the White Silence, Earth and the Great Weather, The Light That Fills the World, and, most recently, Red Arc?/Blue Veil. He is the author of the book Winter Music (Wesleyan, 2004), and his sound-and-light environment, The Place Where You Go to Listen, is a permanent part of the Museum of the North, in Fair-banks, Alaska.
Aku Wuwu (known as Luo Qingchun in Chinese) is a professor of ethnic literature studies at the Southwest Nationalities University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He has published several volumes of poems in the Nuosu dialect of Yi, as well as a body of work in Chinese. English translations of his Nuosu poems have appeared in Mänoa, Rattapallax, and Basalt.
Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. Her most recent publications are Moral Disorder, a collection of interconnected short stories, and The Door, a collection of poetry (both 2007). Her novel Oryx and Crake was short-listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize and the Giller Prize in Canada. Her other books include the 2000 Booker Prize–winning The Blind Assassin; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Robber Bride; Cat's Eye; The Handmaid's Tale; The Penelopiad; and The Tent. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with writer Graeme Gibson.
Mark Bender is a professor of Chinese literature and folklore at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. He has published on regional styles of Chinese oral storytelling and ethnic-minority folk-epic traditions in southwest China.
Christopher Cokinos is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, which he received for his book Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, to be reprinted in 2009. His new nonfiction book, The Fallen Sky: A Private History of Shooting Stars, is forth-coming from Tarcher/Penguin. He has had work recently in Orion, the Los Angeles Times, the Salt Lake Tribune, and Wasatch Journal. His essay on collecting meteorites in Antarctica is included in Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Traveler's Tales, 2007). [End Page 173]
Peter Cole is the author of the poetry collection What Is Doubled: Poems 1981–1998. A new volume, Things on Which I've Stumbled, is forthcoming from New Directions. Cole's many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 (Princeton University Press, 2007). He is a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.
Linda Connor is a resident faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; among others. Her work has also been published in monographs, including On the Museum of the Spheres, Visits, Luminence, and Spiritual Journey. Her awards included National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships.
Jorge Edwards was born in 1931 in Santiago, Chile. He began a career as a diplomat in 1957. During the overthrow of Salvador Allende in 1973, he was dismissed from his post and exiled in Barcelona. There, he began writing about the political situation in Latin America and published his first novel, Persona non grata, in 1974. His recent books include El sueño de la historia and Los Convidados de piedra. He received the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile in 1994 and Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1999. His story in this volume first appeared in Spanish in Fantasmas de carne y hueso (Chile: Punto de Lectura, 2006).
Yahya Hijazi is an educational counselor and teacher. He has worked extensively in the field of Palestinian-Israeli coexistence.
Hwang Sun-wo n (1915–2000) was born in Taedong, in northern Korea. His family escaped to the south in 1946. A graduate of Waseda...
