Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS Charles M. Anderson joins Literature and Medicine as the journal's first book review editor. He is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at University of Arkansas at Little Rock and an adjunct professor in the Division of Medical Humanities at the University of Arkansas Campus for Medical Sciences. He teaches, writes, and conducts workshops on literature and medicine and on writing and healing. He has published a book on the early essays of Richard Selzer, Richard Selzer and the Rhetoric of Surgery, and is currently engaged in research on the relationship between writing and health. John F. Birk has taught in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Japan. He has published work on Hawthorne, Keats, Milton, Faulkner, and modern American poets. His book The Shadow of Prometheus: Melville's Billy Budd is currently in press. Helmut Bonheim has been director of the English Seminar of the University of Cologne since 1965. Born in East Prussia, he is the editor of The English European Messenger and advisory editor of The James Joyce Quarterly. His publications number well over 200, his most recent books including The Narrative Modes (1982, 1992) and Literary Systematic (1990). Gwendolyn Brooks was the winner of the 1994 Jefferson Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the highest federal honor for intellectual achievement in the humanities. She is the Poet Laureate of Illinois. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen. Her first collection of poetry, A Street in Bronzeville, and her first novel, Maud Martha, are still widely read. Her latest collection of poems is entitled Children Coming Home. Daniel C. Bryant is an internist practicing general internal medicine in Portland, Maine, where he is also Clinical Assistant Professor in the teaching program at Maine Medical Center (University of Vermont Medical School). Hale Chatfield, Professor of English and Poet in Residence at Hiram College, is founder of the Hiram Poetry Review. He has published fourteen books, including poetry and short fiction. He has taught with the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Health Care Professions and as an adjunct faculty member at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Robert Leigh Davis is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. His primary research interests include nineteenth-century U.S. literature and medicine. His essays have Literature and Medicine 13, no. 2 (Fall 1994) 331-333 © 1994 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 332 CONTRIBUTORS appeared in the Milton Quarterly, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, American Transcendental Quarterly, and Literature and Medicine. James Dickey has won numerous awards for his poetry and prose, including the Melville-Cane Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and National Book Award for his book of poetry, Buckdancer's Choice, and France's Prix Médicis for his novel, Deliverance. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lynn C. Epstein, Associate Dean of the School of Medicine at Brown University, is board certified in adult and child psychiatry and a clinical associate professor of community health. She is responsible for the Affinity Group Program (mentoring educational groups for medical students) and teaches and publishes in literature and medicine. Dr. Epstein is Chair of the Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lectureship and Forum. Michael S. Harper is University Professor and Professor of English at Brown University, where he has taught since 1970. He is the first Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, a term he held from 1988-1993. He has published ten books of poetry, two of which were nominated for the National Book Award (1970 and 1977), Dear John, Dear Coltrane and Images of Kin, New & Selected Poems. Images of Kin won the Melville-Cane Award from the Poetry Society of America; History Is Your Own Heartbeat (1971) won the Black Academy of Arts & Letters Award for poetry. Anne Hudson Jones is Professor of Literature and Medicine in the Institute for the Medical Humanities of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. A founding editor of Literature and Medicine, she was the journal's editor-in-chief for ten years. She has published widely on various aspects...