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  • Contributors

A. Banerjee, a regular contributor to these pages, writes chiefly about twentieth-century British letters.

Stephen Behrendt, who holds a chair in English at the University of Nebraska, is well known for his scholarship in the nineteenth century and for his poetry.

Robert Bense is the author of Readings in Ordinary Time (2007), a selection of poetry that D. Nurkse has praised as “extraordinary work” which is “uncompromising in its search for knowledge.”

Ann E. Berthoff has been contributing essays and reviews to the SR for many years, and during that time has earned Spears and Heilman prizes for her work here.

Bruce Ducker, an attorney by profession, has published short fiction in the Yale, Hudson, and Southern reviews; and he is the author of eight novels. He has earned the Colorado Book Award and the Macallan story prize.

Edward Galligan has contributed criticism—chiefly on comedy—to this magazine for three decades.

Brendan Galvin is best known for his poetry. He was honored with the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry in 2006.

George Garrett wrote for the Sewanee Review for over five decades, a record matched by only three other contributors; and the range of his work—poetry, fiction, criticism, reminiscence, tribute—was rivaled in the SR only by Robert Penn Warren.

Emily Grosholz has a long essay on the Hudson Review forthcoming in the Princeton University Library Chronicle.

R. S. Gwynn will be reviewing David Mason’s narrative poem Ludlow in the next issue of the SR.

William Harmon continues to profess English at the University of North Carolina, where he has a chair.

Henry Hart, the biographer of James Dickey, teaches English at the College of William and Mary. He will have an essay on Richard Ellmann in these pages next spring.

Samuel Hazo, a poet and critic, has long directed the International Poetry Forum in Pittsburgh.

Jean Hollander has translated Dante’s great poem with her husband, Robert Hollander, and has regularly published poetry. Her latest collection is Organs and Blood (2008).

Andrew Hudgins, the author of many books of poetry, is a member of the faculty at Ohio State. He teaches often in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in the summer.

William Kloefkorn, a new contributor, has published various collections of poetry and short fiction. He is completing the fourth volume of his memoirs, which are being published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Mairi MacInnes, who is a poet, memoirist, and fiction writer, has often contributed prose and poetry to the Sewanee Review since 1994.

David Mason, an advisory editor, who is well known for his poetry and criticism as well as writing in other modes, continues to teach at Colorado College. In the fall he gave a reading at Sewanee of passages taken from his narrative poem Ludlow.

David Middleton, a poet and critic who is chairman of the English department at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, has recently become the poetry editor of Modern Age.

Ed Minus will have fiction and poetry forthcoming in the SR soon in addition to critical reviews on a wide range of books.

George Monteiro, who is retired from Brown University, has been a reviewer for this magazine for some years. His last review was devoted to a new biography of Ogden Nash.

Eric W. Naylor held a chair in the Department of Spanish at the University of the South prior to his retirement from teaching.

Sam Pickering has been spending the spring in Australia, where he has lived chiefly in Perth. He is completing a third book of reminiscences on that country.

David R. Slavitt, who has written in many forms, is best known for his poetry and translations. [End Page lxx]

W. D. Snodgrass’s work, in addition to his poetry and translations, includes a book of essays and a play. He has been honored with a Pulitzer Prize and fellowships from the Hudson Review, the NEA, the Ford Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Anne Stevenson is the latest poet to earn the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry. Her Selected Poems (Library of America, 2008), edited by Andrew Motion, is the second title in the Neglected Masters series sponsored by the...

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