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About the Contributors Charles Anderson teaches writing, rhetoric, and medical humanities at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the Medical Humanities Division of the UA medical school. He and Marian MacCurdy have just completed editing a coUection ofarticles entitled Writing and Healing-.Toward an Informed Practice (NCTE), and he is currently completing a coUection of personal essays entitledJourney Time. Kim Barnes teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark State CoUege in Lewison, Idaho. Her memoir In the Wilderness was a finaUst for the 1997 PuUtzer Prize. Hungryfor the World, her second memoir, has just been pubUshed byViUard. Jocelyn Bartkevicius teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida where she is also nonfiction editor of The Florida Review. Her work has appeared in suchjournals as The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, and The Missouri Review (which awarded her the essay prize) and has been recognized in The Best American Essays. She is working on a memoir, The Emerald Room. Michaela Cavallaro lives in Portland, Maine, where she writes about entertainment for the Portland Press Herald. Her work has been published in Alfred Review, Beyond Bread, and Beacon Street Review, as weU as Boston Magazine and Condé Nasi Traveler. Lisa D. Chavez was born in Los Angeles but raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her first book of poetry, Destruction Bay, was published by West End Press in 1999. She's had poems published in Calyx, Permafrost, and The Americas Review, as weU as in several anthologies, and had nonfiction pubUshed in Iowa Woman and Under the Sun. She teaches creative writing and American Uterature at Albion CoUege, in Albion, Michigan. 233 234Fourth Genre Norma V. L. Clarke is a psychiatrist who lives and writes in Richmond, Virginia. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher CoUege. George R. Clay is a fiction writer, literary essayist, and reviewer whose work has appeared in The NewYorker,The BestAmerican Short Stories, and The Writer's Chronicle, among other publications. Alys Culhane is currently an assistant professor ofcreative nonfiction writing at Plymouth State coUege, in Plymouth, N.H. "Boat Poor" is from a manuscript-in-progress entitled: Staring into Water Darkly: Reflections of a Neophyte Sea Kayaker. John D'Agata recently received M.EA.s in nonfiction and poetry from the University of Iowa. His first coUection, Halls ofFame:A Map, will be published in January 2001 by Graywolf. Elizabeth Danson, born to British missionaries, spent her early childhood in India and China, was educated in England, then married an American and came to the United States. Living in Princeton, N.J., she has published poetry and written fiction and the beginnings of a family memoir. Melanie Dylan Fox is earning an M.A. in Creative Writing at Iowa State University. Her essay, "Nighthiking," received the 1998 AWP Intro Award for nonfiction, and appears in Fourth Genre in connection with this project. This piece is also forthcoming in American Nature Writing 2001. She is currently working on a collection of essays focused on ecology and human interaction with the natural world in Sequoia National Park, where she lived and worked for five seasons. Douglas Goetsch has written two coUections of poetry, Nobody's Hell (1999, Hanging Loose Press) and Wherever You Want (1997, Pavement Saw Press). His recent poems can be found in Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the on-line anthology, PoetryDaily. He teaches creative writing and English at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan. Alvin Greenberg has recent or forthcoming essays in Georgia Review, Ascent, and Graywolf Forum 3: The Business of Memory; along with the essay published here, they will form part ofhis forthcoming collection, The Music of Silence (University of Utah Press). His latest coUection of short stories, Contributors235 How the Dead Live, appeared in 1998 from GraywolfPress. He lives in Boise, Idaho, and can be reached by email at alvindg@cs.com. William Greenway's sixth coUection of poems, Simmer Dim, is from the University of Akron Press Poetry Series. He is professor of EngUsh at Youngstown State University, Ohio. Gail Griffin teaches literature andWomen's Studies at Kalamazoo CoUege in Michigan. She has pubUshed two volumes of autobiographical essays, along with...

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