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295 Contributors Z Elena Alexander'sbook, Footnotes: SixChoreographers Inscribe the O Page, has just been published by Gordon andBeach. T* Elizabeth Alexander is the author of The Venus Hottentot (UP of G*Virginia, 1990)and BodyofLife(TiaChucha, 1998). Sheteaches _ at the University of Chicago. Uh Elizabeth S. Ames' work will also appear this year in The CaroG ^Una Quarterly and elsewhere. ^ Cydney Chadwick is the author of several collections and chapj_books , the most recent Interims (3300 Press). She is the reapingent of a Gertrude Stein Award in innovative writing. Q Laura Cinicomments: "Growing up I wasn't allowed to say 'fuck' P^1or 'heck' or anything. So 'Romance Language' was an inevitable poem." She works as a tutor in Baltimore. Pamela Crow is a clinical social worker, working primarily with children and famUies. Her work has been pubUshed in Southern Poetry Review, Calyx, Florida Review, and elsewhere. Janine DeBaise teaches writing and literature at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her poems have appeared in Midwifery Today and Central New York Environment. Bias Manuel De Luna's poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, Quarterly West, and Puerto Del Sol, and he has received the Ernesto Trejo Prize from The Academy of American Poets. Edward Endicott lives in Denver, where he is a tax accountant and the treasurer of The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute. J.P. Flanagan's story is part of a work-in-progress on the Vietnam War, in which he served with the First Infantry Division during 1969 and 1970. Tamara Friedman teaches English Composition in Chicago. Her short stories have appeared in journals including Hawai'i Review and Feminist Studies. Blaine R. Hammond has work forthcoming in Dream International Qiuirterly, Bogg, Atom Mind, and Melting Trees Review. He is a former editor of Poetalk, from the Bay Area Poets CoaUtion. James Haug's poetry has appeared in recent issues of DoubleTaL·, Gettysburg Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Hunt Hawkins is a professor of English at Florida State University . His book of poems, The Domestic Life (Pittsburg), won the Starre« Prize in 1992. Janet Ruth Heller is an assistant professor of English at Grand Valley State University. She founded Primavera, a Chicago and Southern Poetry Review. 296 the minnesota review Pamela Hughes' poetry has appeared in numerous publications. She teaches at Bloomfield College and lives in New Jersey. Brandon Kershner teaches at the University of Florida. His most recent book is The Modern Novel: An Introduction. Amitava Kumar holds a fellowship at Yale University for 1998-9. His book, Passport Photos, is forthcoming from California. Clifford E. Landers is a professor of Political Science at Jersey State College, and he has translated nearly a dozen Brazilian and Portuguese novels. Jessica Jordan Nudel is a writer and teacher from New York. Her poems and stories have appeared in journals including The Crescent Review, Borderlands, Earth's Daughters and So To Speak. Z. Bart Thornton, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, is currently holed up in a Chicago loft finishing Bad Spaces, a novel. Jacqueline Wilcoxen recently graduated from the Wichita State MFA Program and is teaching full-time in Kansas. Her work has been published in The Pacific Review and Mikrokosmos. ? Eyal Amiran is a founding editor of Postmodern Culture and ^ currently teaches at Michigan State University. ? Anthony C. Alessandrini, a graduate student in English and£>Women's Studies at Rutgers, is editing a collection, Finding PiSomething Different: Fanon and the Future ofCultural Politics. W Cecelia Cancellaro is an editor at Schocken Books. ^-1 William P. Germano is editorial director of Routledge. David Gorman is an associate professor of English at Northern Illinois University. He is Associate Editor of Style, and has published widely on the history and theory of literary criticism. ^- Jarrod Hayes, an assistant professor of French at the University c/5ofMichigan, is completing a book, Queer Nations: Sexual Subversions ofNational Identity in Maghrebian Literature in French. Mike Hill edited mr 47, "The White Issue," and has recently pubUshed the coUection, Whiteness: A Critical Reader (NYU P, 1997). Andrijka Kwasny teaches ethnic Uteratures at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. BeverlyJarrett is editorial director of University ofMissouri Press. Paul...

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