Contributors’ Notes
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Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country (finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize) and Hungry for the World, as well as two novels, Finding Caruso and A Country Called Home. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman Blew of Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including MORE Magazine, Fourth Genre, the Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
Ann M. Bauer is the author of the novel, A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards, which was published by Scribner in 2005 and named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post. She is a regular contributor to Salon.com and a frequent writer for many other publications, including Hallmark magazine, Redbook, the Sun, and the New York Times. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and daughter and is working on her second novel.
Sophie Beck lives in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Film Quarterly, Post Road, Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. She is coeditor of The Normal School and mom to two girls under three. She once bowled frozen turkeys on ice before thousands of onlookers between periods of a Thanksgiving hockey game. She fell over but also won a turkey.
R. Glendon Brunk's many friends and students honor him in death as [End Page 508] they valued him in life—a gifted writer, teacher, friend, and iconoclast. Before his untimely death last year, Brunk had lived and worked in Alaska for most of the past thirty years. He was a champion dogsled racer and the author of Yearning Wild. Among many interests, Brunk created The Last Great Wilderness, a multimedia slide show designed to save the Arctic National Wildlife refuge from petroleum development and toured the country with it for three years. He taught writing and environmental literature at Prescott College in Arizona.
Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her work has also been published in Brevity, Barrelhouse, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and other journals and magazines. She teaches creative nonfiction in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University where she is an associate professor of English.
Steven Church’s first book, The Guinness Book of Me: a Memoir of Record, won the 2006 Colorado Book Award and has recently been optioned for television by Fuse Entertainment. His essays and stories have been published in River Teeth, Fourth Genre, North American Review, Colorado Review, Post Road, The Pinch, Avery, Salt Hill, Ecotone, Quarterly West, Matter, Quarter After Eight, Powells.com, and others. His work has been nominated five times for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches creative nonfiction and literature in the MFA Program at Fresno State, where he is a founding editor of the new literary magazine, The Normal School.
Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, a book of personal essays, and three short story collections, the latest of which is Late in the Standoff (SMU Press). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His biography of Donald Barthelme, “Hiding Man,” is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press. He is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University. [End Page 509]
David James Duncan is the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story collection River Teeth, and the nonfiction collections My Story as Told by Water and God Laughs & Plays. He lives with his family in western Montana, where he is working on a novel called Eastern Western.
Tom Feeney is a metro reporter at the Star-Ledger in Newark, New...
