Notes on Contributors
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Stephen Dixon's twenty-eighth twenty-ninth, and thirtieth books of fiction are a trio of story collections called What Is All This? published by Fantagraphics Books in June 2010. "John Rocco" will be in his new book, His Wife Leaves Him.
Castle Freeman, Jr. is a fiction writer living in northeastern Vermont. His stories have appeared recently in Southwest Review and New England Review; and his latest novel, All that I Have, was published in 2009 by Steerforth Press, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Richard Howard is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry and four volumes of criticism. His third book, Untitled Subjects, won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1970. His poem "Debatable Questions" in his Forthcoming book Progressive Education published by Turtle Point Press.
David Huddle's seventh collection of poems, Black Snake at the Family Reunion, will be published by LSU Press in 2012. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University and also a faculty member of the Breadloaf School of English.
Andrew Hudgins is the author of American Rendering: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010) and a professor at Ohio State University.
Jefferson Hunter is the Helen and Laura Shedd Professor of English and Film Studies at Smith College. His book English Filming, English Writing was published by Indiana University Press in 2010.
X. J. Kennedy has translated Guillaume Apollinaire's The Bestiary which will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in April 2011. His In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems was a 2008 Notable Book of the American Library Association. City Kids (Tradewind Books) is a new collection of verse for children.
Kent Lydecker was formerly the Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Associate Director for Education of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He is now the Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida. His essay in this issue is adapted from his introductory essay to New York in Postcards 1880-1980. The Andreas Adam Collection, edited by Thomas Kramer, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich. All illustrations are from that volume, with special thanks to Andreas Adam and Thomas Kramer. [End Page 306]
Richard A. Macksey teaches in the Humanities Center and in the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Recent publications include contributions to the Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism and the International Dictionary of Literary Histories.
Jill Mccorkle is the author of five novels and four story collections. She teaches creative writing at North Carolina State University.
Erin Mcgraw is the author of five books of fiction, most recently The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard. She teaches at Ohio State University.
Jay Rogoff's chapbook of sonnets, Twenty Danses Macabres, was published in the fall of 2010 by Spring Garden Press as winner of the Robert Watson Poetry Award. His next full-length collection, The Art of Gravity, will appear from LSU Press in 2011.
J. Allyn Rosser's most recent book, Foiled Again, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published by Ivan R. Dee in 2007. She is a recipient this year of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She teaches at Ohio University.
William Jay Smith is a former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress 1968-1970. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, children's verses, criticism, translations, and memoirs. His latest memoir, My Friend Tom, the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams (from which his essay in the present issue is taken), will be published in October by the University Press of Mississippi.
Scott Sternbach began his career as a photographer in the late 1970s, photographing many noted jazz musicians and entertainers. He ran a private portrait studio in Manhattan and was regularly published in prominent periodicals. Today he directs the Photography Program at LaGuardia Community College/ City University of New York. His recent accolades include a National Science Foundation Antarctic Fellowship, an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, and a Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs grant, which funds a travel abroad program to Chile in 2012.
Susan Weiss is chair of Musicology at the Peabody Institute of the...
