Contributors

Pi Z O G HM tu Contributors j* K. Anis Ahmed's columns have appeared in Little India and in£ A;7ccr Kagoj in Bangladesh. This is his first fiction publication. (U Rosa Maria Arenas is a performance artist and temp worker in St. O Louis. Herpoems have appeared in several venues including ^ Thirteenth Moon, River Styx, and the De Colores issue of The£ Kenyon Review.ShewasalsoarecipientoftheMichiganCouncil ?-?for the Arts Creative Artist Grant. ? Marina Arrate's most recentbook ofpoems is Uranio. She works as a psychologist in Santiago, Chile. E. Shaskan Bumas is a Visiting Writer in Residence at Indiana University. Anthony Butts is an assistantprofessor ofpoetry writing and English at the University ofDayton, and has other recent poems appearing in Giant Steps: The New Generation ofAfrican American Writers and in Callaloo. Juan José Daneri was recipient of the 1992 Pablo Neruda Foundation Fellowship. He is co-author of thevolumes Retaguardia de la Vanguardia and Los Novios de Ariadna and teaches Colonial Latin American literature at Marquette University. Albert Desetta lives in Woodstock, New York. He spends most of his time splitting wood and watching deer consume his garden . Carlos Fuentes's most recent novel, Los años con Laura Diaz, was published in English by Harcourt in 2001. Carlos Fuentes Lemus was born in Paris and died in Puerto Vallarta. At the age of five, he won the international Shankar Prize for children's drawing. His book ofphotos, Retratos en el tiempo was released in 1998. At the time of his death, he was finishing his film Gallo de pelea. On the first anniversary ofhis death, May 5, 2000, a retrospective ofhis paintings and drawings opened in Madrid at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. His poems are being translated into Spanish and French. This is the first publication of the English originals. John Hollander's most recent book of poems is Figurehead. Martha Hollander won the Walt Whitman award for her book of poems, The Game ofStatues. Her recent poems have appeared in The Paris Review and The Neiv Republic. She teaches art history at Hofstra University Teaching College. James Hughes has published fiction in The New Yorker and Best Storiesfrom The South. After publishing no fiction for 15-plus years, Mr. Hughes has found a new calling as a celebrity gossip columnist for The Oxford American. Joy Katz recently held a Stegner Fellowship in poetry. Six of her poems appear in the recently published anthology The Neiv 376 the minnesota review Young American Poets from Southern Illinois University Press. She lives in Manhattan. Gonzalo Millán's most recent books are anthologies of his work: Trece Lunas in Spanish and Strange House in English, published inCanada, where he spentmuch ofhis exile. He is a painter and editor of the journal El Espíritu del Valle. He teaches literature and Spanish-American Art History at Finis Terrae University. Kevin Prüfer teaches at Central Missouri State University. His second book of poems, The Finger Bone, is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press. He is also editor of Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing and The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois, 2000).' Matthew Sharpe is the author of a novel, Nothing Is Terrible, and a book of short fiction, Stories from the Tube, both published by Villard Books. His stories have appeared in Harper's, Zoetrope, Southwest Review, and BOMB. He teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Jonathan C. Smith is completing a PhD at Washington University in St. Louis. Sharon Wahl has stories in The Iowa Review, the Chicago Tribune, Harvard Review, Pleiades, and other magazines. She is writing a book oflove stories based on classic philosophy texts and is currently teaching at the University of Phoenix. David Wojahn is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently , The Falling Hour, which appeared from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1997. He teaches at Indiana University and in the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College. María Inez Zaldivar was a human rights worker during the military dictatorship in Chile. She has her PhD from Rutgers and teaches at the Catholic University. Resident Director ofthe Washington University Program inChile, she is the authorofthebooks Artes y...