From the Editor

From the Editor Two changes in staffing on the Review are in place or forthcoming and need to be noted. First, after several years ofdevoted and diligent work on the Rocky Mountain Review, Naomi Lindstrom has resigned as poetry and fiction editor. Having started to work on the Review during David William Foster's editorship, Naomi kindly agreed to stay on when I took over three years ago, and she has done an outstanding job in getting appropriate critics to read poetry and fiction submissions. I would like in this public forum to extend my warmest thanks to her for her fine work. The new poetry and fiction editor, who was recommended by several RMMLA members and who has been approved by the RMMLA Board, will be Doug Crowell. Doug is an Associate Profesor at Texas Tech University; he has published both poetry and fiction. His stories have received honorable mention listings in Best American Short Stories 1980, Best American Short Stories 1985, and The Pushcard Prizes VII. In 1983 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship Grant. His stories and poems have appeared in Mississippi Review, Fiction International, Florida Review, New Directions in Prose and Poetry, Hiram Poetry Review, Laurel Review, and Epoch, as well as in two anthologies published recently, South by Southwest, Stories ofModern Texas, and New Storiesfrom the South. He has also recently received the Texas Institute of Letters Short Story Award. All poetry and fiction submissions should now be sent, in duplicate, without the author's name on either copy, to Doug Crowell, Department ofEnglish, Box 4530, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409. The second change will be a temporary one. While I am teaching in London next spring, my colleague Jan Widmayer, Book Review Editor, will be Acting Editor for the period from January through June 1988. I will try to have everythingup to date and in order before I go, and I knowJan will do agreatjob in taking care of things while I am away. Carol A. Martin 133 ...