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  • Contributors

Thomas Bontly has previously published critical prose as well as fiction in the SR.

T. Alan Broughton's poetry has been appearing in these pages for many years.

Casey Clabough's most recent book is The Warrior's Path: Reflections along an Ancient Route, which Fred Chappell has characterized as "a volume to keep close at hand when doubts about our American destiny begin to assail."

Robert Cording's poetry has been published in the SR since 1986.

William B. Dillingham, the author of four books on Melville, is completing his second book on Kipling.

William E. Engel, a regular reviewer for the SR, professes English and humanities at the University of the South. His recent work includes "Shakespeare's Historical Context" for the Continuum Guide to Shakespeare.

Eugene Goodheart, the author of many books of criticism, has contributed essays in criticism and reminiscence to the Sewanee Review since 1984.

Martin Greenberg, a new contributor, has written on Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Kafka and earned prizes for his criticism and verse translations.

Robert Lacy, a writer of short fiction as well as an essayist, will be publishing more informal essays in these pages next year.

Dan Leidig was professor of English, emeritus, at Emory and Henry College. He had previously contributed poetry to these pages.

John McCormick has a new book of essays, Another Music: Polemics and Pleasures, that will be reviewed in the SR next year.

Gardner McFall's forthcoming book of poems is "Russian Tortoise" (fall 2009). A new contributor, she has written the libretto for a new opera, Amelia, commissioned by Seattle Opera and scheduled to premiere in May 2010.

Ed Minus has fiction and poetry forthcoming in the SR in addition to several reviews.

John Rees Moore has been reviewing books for this magazine sincve 1975, especially the novels of J. M. Coetzee and John Banville.

D. G. Myers continues to teach at Texas A &M. He is best known for his book The Elephants Teach, which is devoted to the history of writing programs in the U.S.

Richard O'Mara, who has retired from the Baltimore Sunpapers, continues to write on a wide variety of subjects. He will have a critical essay and a review in the SR in 2009.

Jason Peters is the editor of Wendell Berry: Life and Work (2007), reviewed by Robert Benson in the spring 2008 issue.

Sam Pickering is completing a third book of reminiscences on Australia, where he spent the spring.

Dawn Potter has a book in production, "Tracing Paradise," at the University of Massachusetts Press; and her second collection of poetry will soon be published by CavanKerry Press.

F. D. Reeve is a man of letters living in retirement in Vermont. He is well known for his translations of Russian literature and for his short fiction and poetry as well as his criticism.

Floyd Skloot, nationally known for his memoirs and poetry, is working on a series of essays on boys' books by such authors as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

David Stewart, a new contributor, is a writer living near Middleburg, Virginia. He has a selection of stories in press.

Henry Taylor, who has earned a Pulitzer Prize and the Aiken Taylor Award for his poetry, is now living and writing in Washington state.

Mitch Wieland's fiction in this issue is the third story from his book of the same title, which will soon be published by the Southern Methodist University Press. Mr. Wieland edits the Idaho Review.

Edwin M. Yoder, Jr. has been an editor and columnist in North Carolina and Washington. His novel Lions at Lamb House was published in September 2007. His short story "Blackmail" was awarded the SR's Andrew Lytle prize in 2003. [End Page vciii]

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