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contributors 183 CONTRIBUTORS FERNANDO ALEGRÍA-critic, novdist, and poet; Chile's Cultural Attaché, during the Allende government, in Washington, D.C.; current Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford—is a guiding member of a worldwide group of Chilean writers in exUe and the most distinguished Chilean writer Uving in the U.S. LINDA ANDRE is a photographer, a frequent contributor to Afterimage, and an active friend and supporter of the New York Marxist School. DAN ARMSTRONG teaches EngUsh at Oregon State University and recently pubUshed an essay on Frederick Wiseman in Film Quarterly. ELLEN BANBERGER has collaborated with Marc Zimmerman on a translation of Ernesto Cardenal's Flights of Victory, forthcoming from Orbis Press, and on 7Ae Nicaragua Book, in preparation. She is also active in Central American solidarity work in the San Diego area, where she lives. LYNNE BARRETT has pubUshed stories in Quarterly West, Carolina Quarterly, Colorado State Review, and other magazines; she is currently working on a novel and teaching in the creative writing program at Carnegie-Mellon University. CHARLES BAXTER teaches EngUsh at Wayne State University; a book ofhis poems has been pubUshed by New Rivers Press. JOHN BEVERLEYteaches Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh and is active in the Democratic Socialists of America. He reports that he has finaUy managed "to reinvent writing after giving up dgarettes." JULIA CASTERTON teaches in London, has written for Red Letters and 7Ae Morning Star in England, and has pubUshed fiction in Spare Rib; she has also recently organized a performance of Plath's Three Women and several poetry readings to raise money for a new women's writing/art journal. PETER COPEK teaches in the English Department and directs the Humanities Devdopment Program and the curriculum in Twentieth Century Studies at Oregon State University. SARAH COTTERILL has pubUshed her work in numerous places, including Poetry Now, Porch, Chowder Review, Webster Review, West Branch, Mother Jones, Berkeley Poets Cooperative, Trellis, and The Smith; her chapbook, TAe Hive Burning, has been pubUshed by Sleeping Bird Press. VINAY DHARWADKER, currently a Humanities Fellow at the University of Chicago, has pubUshed podry, translations , and criticism in Ariel, London Magazine, Mundus Artium, New England Review, and the Journal ofSouth Asian Literature; before coming to the United States in 1981, he was a pubUsher's editor for five years in New Ddhi, where he was also associated with two literary periodicals, Soliloquy and Vagartha. WALLACE DOUGLAS, Professor Emeritus of EngUsh and Education at Northwestern University, has pubUshed andtalked around and about on composition and the history of the subject. B. H. FAIRCHILD recently won 1st prize in the Santa Cruz Writers Union Competition and 2nd prize in this year's Rainer Maria RUke Poetry Competition; he lives and works in San Bernadino now. SAMUEL FEIJOO was born in 1914 in Cuba, where he grew up in the country in a guajiro (peasant) family. The author of over 40 books, he has written poetry, short fiction, novds, aphorisms, prose podry, and Uterary criticism. LAURO FLORES teaches in the Department of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, where he is aso Director of the Center for Chicano Studies and Editor of Metamorfosis. JEAN FRANCO, Director of the Institute for Iberian and Latin American Studies at Columbia University, is presently at work on a study of women and culture in Latin America. EDWARD GOLD is a widely pubUshed pod who currently teaches English at the University of Maryland. CHRISTOPHER HOWELL has six titles in print and another forthcoming in the fall from L"Epervier. He is poetry editor for Lynx House Press and director of the Oregon Writers' Workshop at the Pacific NW CoUege of Art. HAROLD JAFFE's most recent collection of fiction is Mourning Crazy Horse; "Broken Glass" is part of a new workin -progress, more ofwhich wUl appear in these pages in subsequent issues. Since his return to the West/Left Coast, FREDRIC JAMESON has been mainly preoccupied with the poUtical economy of postmodern space and time; he is, of course, a Contributing Editor to m.r. FRED JOHNSON, who lives in San Diego, is a young pod; the pods who mean most to him at...

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