Contributors

170 the minnesota review Contributors ANN MARIE KEMENY is completing her dissertation on feminist utopias. RANDEANE TETU is the author of "Merle's and Marilyn's Mink Ranch" and numerous other short stories. She is trying to lcam to ice skate, but assures us that her stories don't reflect this. BILL SOLOMON does Marxist critical theory. R. M. BERRY teaches postmodernism and fiction writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, and has published numerous essays and a collection of stories. Hc is currently at work on a novel about the last day in the life of Leonardo da Vinci. DAVID SIAR is writing his dissertation on Marxist criticism of Shakespeare. LINDA FROST writes poetry and teaches in the Pcnn. State system. ELIZABETH LIBBEY teaches creative writing at Trinity College in Hartford. She has authored three books of poetry and is currently at work on a book concerning her great-great grandfather and his times. DEVONEY LOOSER is a graduate student working with feminist criticism. JEFFREY WILLIAMS teaches at East Carolina University. His book on rcflxivity and narrative is forthcoming on Cambridge University Press. Jeff will be assuming the general responsibilities of minnesota review beginning with n.s. 39. Wc have been fortunate to have MARGARET RANDALL as frequent contributor to the journal. She is a long-time political writer and activist. TIMOTHY BRENNAN is the author of Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation. Wc look forward to his future association with the minnesota review as part of the new editorial collective. JEANETTE BURNEY is an extensively published poet. RICHARD DANIELS writes fiction and leaches fiction writing and literature at Oregon State University. MAX VAN WESTLER teaches at St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana. MICHAEL ATKINSON has recently received a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. CHARLES BERNHEIMER is chair of the Comparative Literature Program at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Figures of III Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France won honorable mention in the 1 990 competition for the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize. TRISH RUCKER, recipient of a grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts, will soon be serving as Writcr-in-Rcsidcnce at Altos de Chavon, in the Dominican Republic. DONNA TURNER has probably finished her graduate degree at the University of North Dakota since we received her poems. We hope the same is true for DANIEL TOBIN, and QUADRI ISMAIL, who were both in pursuit of their doctorates at our last contact with them. PEGGY THARP is a senior at Wichita State University. PHILLIP ST. CLAIR teaches at the University of Kentucky, Ashland. Hc is the author of two books of poetry. KATHERINE SONIAT's second collection of poetry was published in April. RON OVERTON's most recent book is called Love on the Alexander Hamilton. HAAS H. MROUE is a graduate writing student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. CARYN MIRRIAMGOLDBERG teaches English at the University of Kansas, and is the winner of numerous poetry awards. W. LANE is a carpenter and environmental and peace activist living in Pennsylvania. Hc has published two collections of poetry. SCOTT HEIM is part of the M.F.A. program at Columbia University. JENNIFER HAYWARD is completing her doctorate at Princeton. PATRICIA GOODRICH is the author of three books of poetry. ELLEN BILOFSKY is a freelance writer. DAVE AUSTIN is a widely published author of both poetry and fiction. ANTHONY BUKOSKI lives in Superior, Wisconsin. His stories have appeared in several journals of contemporary writing. PAUL BHULE is an associate editor of Radical America. GWEN CRANE is at Princeton. Wc wish we knew the whereabouts of the rest of this issue's contributors. Wc don't, but we thank them for their efforts anyway. ...