About the Contributors

About the Contributors Marilyn Abildskov earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and has published essays and short stories in such publications as Black Warrior Review, Sonora Review, and Puerto del Sol. She is the recipient ofa 1998 Rona Jaffe Writers'Award and lives in Iowa City. Sue Allison lives inWarrenton,Virginia, with her husband and their twoyear -old daughter. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Review, Threepenny Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Sundog, and other journals. Joe Bonomo's personal essays and reviews appear in the Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Quarterly West, Seneca Review, and elsewhere; he has work forthcoming in Quarter after Eight. He teaches creative nonfiction and film and literature at Northern IUinois University. George R. Clay is a fiction writer and literary essayist whose work has appeared in The NewYorker and BestAmerican Short Stories. His most recently published book (Northwestern University Press) is Tolstoy's Phoenix: From Method to Meaning in War and Peace. Barbara Drake's book ofessays, Peace at Heart:An Oregon Country Life, was a finalist for the 1999 Oregon Book Award in nonfiction. She is currently working on a coUection of travel essays and a new poetry manuscript. She teaches at Linfield CoUege in Oregon. Philip Gerard is the author of three novels, including Cape Fear Rising and three books of nonfiction, most recendy Writing a Book That Makes a Difference. He teaches in the M.F.A. program at University ofNorth CaroUnaWflmington and the creative nonfiction summer residency program at Goucher CoUege. 215 216Fourth Genre Peter Glendinning is a professor in the Department ofArt at Michigan State University. He has received numerous awards, including a Michigan Council for the Arts Individual Artist grant. His book, Color Photography: History, Theory, and Darkroom Technique was pubUshed by Prentice HaU. His photography may be found in many permanent coUections including the International Museum of Photography, the Everson Museum of Art, the Tweed Museum ofArt, and the Center for Creative Photography. Karol Griffin was recently awarded theWyomingArts Council 2000 Frank Nelson Doubleday award, an annual grant "to honor a woman writer of exceptional talent in any genre." She has been a regular contributor to Vista: New Perspectives on the West. Her writing has also appeared in Northern Lights (forthcoming), Red Rock Review, Dark Horse Literary Review, the Owen Wister Review, and Vietnam Generation. Debra Gwartney is the mother of four teenaged daughters and is a freelance writer whose nonfiction has appeared in such journals as Creative Nonfiction, Salon, and Portland magazine. She won the 2000 Washington Square Review fiction contest, judged by E. L. Doctorow. She teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon. John Hildebrand is the author of Mapping the Farm (Knopf) and Reading the River (University of Wisconsin Press). His articles and essays have appeared in Harper's, Audubon, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Missouri Review, Manoa, Country Life, and Best American Sports Writing—1999. He teaches at the University ofWisconsin-Eau Claire. Ruby Hoy is a poet, teacher, and former banjo student who lives near the 45th paraUel. Half Irish and half Appalachian, she books traditional Irish musicians and dreams of a banjo that tunes itself. Betty Hyland has been writing about mental flUiess for over twenty-five years. Her son, Mark, died in February 1999 after many years' struggle with schizophrenia. "AThousand Cloudy Days" appeared in the National Institute ofMental Health's "Schizophrenia BuUetin." It won the EugeneV Debs 1993 award for best essay. Hyland wrote "The Girl with the Crazy Brother" and sold the TV rights to CBS, where it was developed it into an after-school special. She divides her time between CaUfornia andVirginia and is currently working on a coUection of stories dealing with mental illness. Contributors217 Gordon Johnston's novel New Moon is under consideration at HiU Street Press. His stories and poems have appeared in The Georgia Review, American Fiction, The Breast:An Anthology, New Millennium Writings,Yemassee, and other journals. He teaches contemporary Uterature and creative writing at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, where he also directs the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Alex R. Jones Uves in Los Angeles. His essays and short stories have appeared in the Gettysburg Review, the Santa Monica Review...