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140 the minnesota review Contributors MARYANN BLANCHARD works as a machine operator, fishes, and takes care of her two-year-old granddaughter; somehow she also finds time to write. TIM BRENNAN'S most recent book, Salman Rushdie and the Third World, was reviewed in the last issue of mr, he is currently working on a book on Black British culture. JAYNE RELAFORD BROWN teaches women's writing workshops and is a student in the MFA Program at San Diego State University. GARY BURNETT was a doctoral student in English at Princeton when he submitted his review a year ago; we're somewhat curious concerning his current whereabouts. ROBERT COOPERMAN has published two chapbooks, Seeing the Elephant and The Trial of Mary McCormick. A resident of Corvallis, OR, once home to this journal, RICHARD DANIELS writes fiction and teaches medieval literature at Oregon State University. When he's not providing mr with splendid reviews on Latin American culture, ROMAN DE LA CAMPA chairs the Department of Comparative Literature at Stony Brook. Nobody could do both at once. LAURA L. DOAN is Associate Professor of English at SUNY-Geneseo; she recently edited a collection. Old Maids to Radical Spinsters: Unmarried Women in the Twentieth-Century Novel. EVELYN FITZPATRICK provided no information about herself, which tactic I suppose goes with a contribution called "Untitled." TERRANCE GLASS teaches and chairs the English Department at Central (Ohio) State University. I wonder why the "Ohio" is put in parentheses. When she's not raising hell around the English Department at Southeastern Louisiana University, BONNIE HAIN works on the 18th century and tries hard not to imitate one of the characters in Sex, Lies and Videotape. I'll leave it to your imagination to guess which one. ROBERT HARVEY's book on Sartre, Search for a Father, will be published by the University of Michigan Press. BARBARA HOFFMAN'S work has appeared in various magazines, including The Beloit Poetry Journal and Gryphon. LYN LIFSHIN has published over 80 books of poetry. We'rejust glad she continues to submit her work to us. A sociologist at Pratt Institute, RANDY MARTIN has performed , taught, and studied, dance, theatre, and clowning in Cuba, Italy, Nicaragua, and the United States. SANDY PETREY's Speech Acts and Literary Theory appeared last year from Routledge; I'm trying to get him to move upscale a bit in his publishing profile. Like many mr poets, TERESA M. PFEIFER writes when she can, in between being a graduate student, a library assistant in Chicopee, MA, and a single parent. KEVIN RAILEY has recently moved from Skidmore College to Buffalo State. I imagine he'll have to modify his wardrobe a tad as a result. DAVE ROEDIGER is a historian, co-author (with Philip Foner) of Our Own Time and by himself of the forthcoming The Wages of Witness, both published in the Haymarket Series from Verso. Is that a plug? You betcha. A poet of some repute, CHRIS SEMANSKY is currently trying to master the intricacies of poker; the lessons have been expensive thus far. KATHERINE SONIAT's collection of poems, Cracking Eggs, recently appeared from the University Presses of Florida. A widely published poet, MIKE SWOPE just earned his B.A. at Missouri Western State College and plans to go on for a doctorate in English. ALAN WALD teaches American Studies at the University of Michigan; he is currently working on a book dealing with Communist writers and their legacies. DAVID WATT teaches in the Department of Drama at Newcastle University in Australia; his latest project concerns popular political theater in Australia. We're happy to have DAVID ZEIGER's work appearing in mr; we only wish we knew how to get in touch with him. ...

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